(Richmond Music Folios). 2012 would have been the 100th birthday of
American singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie. To mark his extraordinary
achievements in songwriting, we are releasing this souvenir centennial
songbook. Woody Guthrie wrote over 3,000 songs in his lifetime, yet only
300 or so were ever recorded. At the invitation of Guthrie's daughter,
Nora Guthrie, contemporary singer/songwriters have set music to
Guthrie's previously unpublished lyrics. Musicians such as Billy Bragg,
Wilco, Dropkick Murphys, Jonatha Brooke, Jay Farrar, Tom Morello, Lou
Reed, The Klezmatics, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, Madeleine Peyroux, Janis Ian,
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, and Woody's son, Arlo Guthrie, have
shown us how timeless Woody's words are. Every 100 Years is a
compilation of 100 Woody Guthrie songs that run the gamut from work
songs, love songs and union & protest songs, to topical songs and
children's songs. The book features his classics such as: This Land Is
Your Land * Jesus Christ * Do Re Mi * Pretty Boy Floyd * Roll On
Columbia * Pastures of Plenty * Deportee * Riding in My Car * and
more, as well as hits from the next generation of Guthrie co-authors:
California Stars * I'm Shippin' Up to Boston * The Jolly Banker * Way
Over Yonder in the Minor Key * Hoodoo Voodoo * Ease My Revolutionary
Mind * Ingrid Bergman * My Peace * Mermaid's Avenue * Happy Joyous
Hanukkah * Every 100 Years * and many others. Includes a preface from
Howie Richmond, founder of The Richmond Organization Guthrie's
publisher, as well as other commentary from friends, family, and Woody
himself along with photos and facsimiles of Guthrie's original drawings
and hand-written lyrics.
