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My Name Is New York (Audiobook)

by Nora Guthrie & Woody Guthrie

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    3-CD DELUXE AUDIO BOOK

    Written and narrated by Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie
    Produced by Steve Rosenthal, Michael Kleff and Nora Guthrie

    It's the story of Woody's 27 years living here in the city, and we visit 19 historic locations - in this 3-CD set - where Woody lived and worked.

    Now, for the first time, you'll actually be able to hear these stories told by those who knew him best, in many different ways and through various encounters and circumstances; music partners

    - PETE SEEGER
    - RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT
    - SONNY TERRY
    - BESS LOMAX HAWES
    - MARY GUTHRIE (Woody's first wife)
    - JIMMY LONGHI (Woody's merchant marine buddy)
    - BOB DYLAN
    - MARJORIE GUTHRIE (Woody's second wife)
    - ARLO GUTHRIE
    - NORA GUTHRIE
    ...and many more who share their memories with you first-hand.

    More information on this special release ~ www.woodyguthrie.org/MyNameIsNY/index.htm


    2014. 3-CD set

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Location 01 ~ 59th Street At 5th Avenue 05:07
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Location 02 ~ 101 West 43rd Street 04:42
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Location 03 ~ 57 East 4th Street 04:03
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*GRAMMY Award Nominee ~ "The New York Trains" nominated for Best American Roots Song

Woody Guthrie first arrived in New York City on February 16, 1940. Although he continued to ramble, for 27 years— from 1940 until his death in 1967—New York was the city he called home and always returned to.

For the first time, this wonderful New York story comes to life with historical photos, documents, and previously unpublished lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives. Highlighting 19 significant locations, this special audiobook provides an expansive yet intimate portrait of Woody Guthrie’s NYC life.

Many of Woody’s most popular songs were written in apartments, lofts, and other locations around “New York Town.” That song, along with “Jesus Christ,” “Vigilante Man,” “Hard Travelin’,” “Tom Joad,” “Reuben James,” “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” and “1913 Massacre,” are among the more than 600 he composed in The Big Apple. Most surprisingly, his iconic “This Land Is Your Land,” was written at a small rooming house on 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue, on February 23, 1940 within a few days of his arrival. With new friends Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee and the Almanac Singers he was at the center of a new movement—introducing and popularizing rural, roots, topical, and protest music to modern, urban audiences.

We invite you to walk the streets, ride the buses and subways, or sit down and relax on some of the stoops, park benches, or beaches where Woody Guthrie did—always strumming away on his guitar, always working on a new song.

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released October 8, 2020

Written and narrated by Nora Guthrie
Produced by Steve Rosenthal, Michael Kleff and Nora Guthrie

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Over the decades, Woody Guthrie's songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track, known and performed in many languages throughout the world.

He wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime. Pastures of Plenty, Tom Joad, Deportee, Oklahoma Hills, Union Maid, Jesus Christ, and This Land Is Your Land are among the hundreds that have become staples in the canon of American music. ... more

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