An accident in the early 1950s left Woody Guthrie unable to play the guitar. After moving back to New York, Guthrie continued to compose songs and kept involved in the folk scene. Then ...

and Guthrie, as his illness destroyed cells in his brain, would burn his arm and lose his ability to play guitar. “Pete Seeger said that fire was Woody’s muse,” says Guthrie’s daughter Nora.

and a shaggy-haired guitar-playing Oklahoman: Woody Guthrie. Cunningham and Friesen soon moved in and Sis, an accordion player, became a central member of the group. Not long after their fateful ...

Folk music icon Woody Guthrie, one of the most important figures in the history of American music, was born July 14, 1912, 100 years ago today. Armed with a guitar bearing the phrase, &quot ...

Woody Guthrie was a folk singer ... As a teenager, he took up the guitar. After his mother was institutionalized with ...