TO HEAR YOUR BANJO PLAY - Woody Guthrie's Birthday | 'John Henry' with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

 WOODY GUTHRIE

Woody Guthrie was born as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma on this day in 1912.

Woody Guthrie with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Ballad Of John Henry (1947) 

To Hear Your Banjo Play - Released in 1946, an engaging 16-minute introduction to American folk music, written and narrated by Alan Lomax and featuring rare performances by Woody Guthrie, Baldwin Hawes, Sonny Terry, Brownee McGhee, Texas Gladden and Margot Mayo’s American Square Dance Group.

John Steinbeck about Woody Guthrie - 

"Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that people.”