Woody Guthrie Interviews (2)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCE BY WOODY GUTHRIE:
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. -Woody.

[@KaraLey98]

Wow he really has a graceful and sweet way of speaking-think I like speaking voice as much as singing!

[@KYESTV]

How wonderful you shared this ancient (to me) recording. Thank you.

[@sadeyedlady]

I love listening to Woody. He has a calming voice and fascinating stories

[@denniswade3429]

When Woody sings Jesus Christ he’s the only one who tells it like it is 👍🏻👍🏻

[@AndyLeMaitre]

"I don't know whether I can Play that............."

[@KaraLey98]

lol-that was the BEST HARMONICA I’VE EVER HEARD!!

[@granthutcherson4510]

Thank you mr. Dingle this part of our history and this man in particular it's certainly worth learning about

[@ralphowen3367]

I did not know all this about Woodies background. Thanks. Was just a few weeks ago driving along the Washington/ Oregon border along the Columbia and put on Roll on Columbia more than once while passing Hood River and the Dalles Damn.

[@TheSnoopindaweb]

I'm learning things from this UA-cam I could never imagine. Yup! G-G

[@wychwoodmusic]

Thanks for sharing.
My understanding is that Woody's mother almost certainly set all those fires, and he either didn't want to face it or say so. She was suffering pretty badly from Huntinton's disease, something that eventually got him too.

[@etanaedelman9011]

Man you can tell just how badly he was still affected by what happened to his mother and sister. When he talks about his mother's illness he's clearly trying not to cry, and he has to clear his throat to steady himself. Honestly, I find it really moving how much respect, love, and empathy he had for his mother, even before he started suffering from the disease himself and especially back in a time where mental and neurological illness was so stigmatized. She couldn't have been easy to live with but he never spoke unkindly of her.

[@KaraLey98]

@@etanaedelman9011
As gentle a person that he is, he obviously got that from his mother because children who are treated well, also do well and in kind. He knew on some level that his mother was ill.

[@etanaedelman9011]

​@@KaraLey98 It sounds like his mother really did the best she could; there just wasn't much you could do in those days. What particularly amazes me is how different he ended up from his father- Charles Guthrie was a conservative businessman who may have been affiliated with the KKK, published anti-socialist screeds, and almost certainly participated in a brutal lynching of a black woman and her son.

[@dickloocks1436]

manny thanks for publish ia now woody songs for along time my father playt the songs if this great man afther 20 jears ia play slf gitar and sing the songs of woody specily the partis of plenty ia hoop ia say it good he had hard live bhat ia think a happy liv being him self if y now what ia mean to say thanks again and gr the Netherlands

[@danocable]

Thanks dick

[@pigshitpoet]

great insight from a great vagabond, the sould of america

[@DropDStandard11]

Just belted out Ol Joe Clark!

[@KaraLey98]

Is there another part to this interview? If so, can someone post a link? Thanks if u can😇

[@endofthebarscreamer6998]

What the hell,....why. Not!

[@michaelfeher213]

proud to be an OKEY from Muskogee,

[@paullittle5200]

John Steinbeck immortalised the 'Okey',part of down to earth, USA I'd love to visit as an English man.

[@clydecoffey8815]

little bnttie

[@danocable]

Andy

[@danocable]

So what ?