What was the first ever concept album?
A tale of tech and pop culture.
Woody Guthrie
The Woody Guthrie record inspired by one of America’s most infamous murder trials
A defense of immigrants caught in the American justice system.
The tragic reason a psychiatric hospital assumed Woody Guthrie had schizophrenia
The folk legend was hospitalised in 1956.
The strange legacy of Arlo Guthrie’s bizarre arrest: “People thought it was fiction”
“This is all real stuff…”
The singer Bruce Springsteen called the grandfather of American music
Showing him the ropes of songwriting.
The one singer Bob Dylan called his favourite: “Gone but not forgotten”
Bob Dylan once revealed his overall favourite singer.
‘Mermaid Avenue’ Live: Billy Bragg and Wilco are finally performing their beloved Woody Guthrie albums together
Their late ’90s collaboration never led to a proper concert, until now.
The day Woody Guthrie painted “this machine kills fascists” on his guitar
“It means just what it says too”