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Unreleased Woody Guthrie songs to be included on new three-disc compilation

A number of unreleased Woody Guthrie songs are to be included on a new three-disc compilation, according to Rolling Stone. My Name Is New York pairs tracks Guthrie wrote during the 27 years he lived in the city along with informal interviews featuring Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Nora and Arlo Guthrie.

Woody Guthrie – Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Hard to believe that Woody Guthrie, conceivably, could still be alive in 2012, given that he’s been gone for 45 years. Yet his incomparable work, especially circa 1939-1949, and the indomitable spirit of that work, a Big Bang of social-consciousness-in-song that set off reverberations down through history – from Dylan and Ochs and the whole early ’60s folk revival and on to Joe Strummer’s righteous punk rebellion – resonates still, as long as repression, corruption, and abuse of power still flourish.

Johnny Depp co-editing unpublished Woody Guthrie novel

Johnny Depp is co-editing a unpublished Woody Guthrie novel, House Of Earth, according to reports in Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
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