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Woody Guthrie at 100: Live at the Kennedy Center

(Woody Guthrie)
Release Date: 
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Label(s): 
Format: 
Box Set
Tracks: 
19
Discs: 
2

Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades, his songs have run around the world like a fast train on a well oiled track. They've become the folk song standards of the nation, known and performed in many languages throughout the world.

Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center, is the CD/ DVD centennial celebration of the birth of America's greatest folk singer, Woody Guthrie. John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Donovan, Ani DiFranco, Rosanne Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show and others perform many of Guthrie's classics along with recently recorded lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives. This historic DVD captures is the concert recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC on October 14th, 2012. The DVD also includes additional performances by Judy Collins, Lucinda Williams, Jimmy LaFave, Rosanne Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show and Ramblin' Jack Elliott that were not shown in the PBS Broadcast. The accompanying 19 song CD is the perfect soundtrack to this unique event.