My Name Is New York - Book & 3-CD Audiobook - GRAMMY Award Nominee!
Artist: Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie & Various Artists
*GRAMMY Award Nominee ~ "The New York Trains" nominated for Best American Roots Song
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Woody Guthrie first arrived in New York City on February 16, 1940. Although he continued to ramble, for 27 years— from 1940 until his death in 1967—New York was the city he called home and always returned to.
For the first time, this wonderful New York story comes to life with historical photos, documents, and previously unpublished lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives. Highlighting 19 significant locations, this little guide provides an expansive yet intimate portrait of Woody Guthrie’s NYC life. We invite you to walk the streets, ride the buses and subways, or sit down and relax on some of the stoops, park benches, or beaches where Woody Guthrie did—always strumming away on his guitar, always working on a new song.
Many of Woody’s most popular songs were written in apartments, lofts, and other locations around “New York Town.” That song, along with “Jesus Christ,” “Vigilante Man,” “Hard Travelin’,” “Tom Joad,” “Reuben James,” “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” and “1913 Massacre,” are among the more than 600 he composed in The Big Apple. Most surprisingly, his iconic “This Land Is Your Land,” was written at a small rooming house on 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue, on February 23, 1940 within a few days of his arrival. With new friends Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee and the Almanac Singers he was at the center of a new movement—introducing and popularizing rural, roots, topical, and protest music to modern, urban audiences.
BOOK:
Author: Nora Guthrie and The Woody Guthrie Archives
A pocket-sized guide to 19 locations in New York City where Woody Guthrie lived and wrote.
Includes:
- Historic text and photographs from each location
- Chronological listing of songs written in NYC
- Original song lyrics and never before published documents from the Woody Guthrie Archives
- Excerpts from Woody Guthrie's NYC address book
Published by: powerHouse Books. 5" x 8" Paperback. 96 pgs.
3-CD DELUXE AUDIO BOOK:
Written and narrated by Nora Guthrie
Produced by Steve Rosenthal, Michael Kleff and Nora Guthrie
It's the story of Woody's 27 years living here in the city, and we visit 19 historic locations - in this 3-CD set - where Woody lived and worked. Now, for the first time, you'll actually be able to hear these stories told by those who knew him best, in many different ways and through various encounters and circumstances; music partners Pete Seeger, Ramblin' Jack Elliott,Sonny Terry, and Bess Lomax Hawes, Woody's first wife Mary Guthrie, Woody's merchant marine buddy Jimmy Longhi, Bob Dylan, Woody's second wife Marjorie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Nora Guthrie and many others share their memories with you first-hand.
3-CD ~ TRACK LISTING:
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Disc 1: February 16, 1940 — November 1942 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. 59th Street at 5th Avenue, Manhattan
2. 101 West 43rd Street, Manhattan
3. 57 East 4th Street, Manhattan
4. 31 East 21st Street, Manhattan
5. 5 West 101st Street, Manhattan
6. 70 East 12th Street, Manhattan
7. 130 West 10th Street, Manhattan
8. 430 6th Avenue, Manhattan
9. 148 West 14th Street, Manhattan
10. 647 Hudson Street, Manhattan
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Disc 2: December, 1942 — October 3, 1967 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. 74 Charles Street, Manhattan
2. 3815 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
3. 3520 Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn
4. 49 Murdock Court, Brooklyn
5. 517 East 5th Street, Manhattan
6. Brooklyn State Hospital, 681 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn
7. 159-13 85th Street, Queens
8. Creedmore State Hospital, Queens
9. Final Resting Place: Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn
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Disc 3: Bonus CD ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. New York Town (Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston/Sonny Terry)
2. New York Trains (Del McCoury)
3. Union Maid (Almanac Singers)
4. My New York City (Mike + Ruthy)
5. Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie)
6. Man’s A Fool (Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry) home tape
7. Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie)
8. Union Air in Union Square (Lowry Hamner)
9. Round and Round Hitler’s Grave (Almanac Singers)
10. Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie)
11. Beatitudes (Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir)
12. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
13. Go Coney Island, Roll On The Sand (Demolition String Band with Stephan Said)
14. Howdi Do (Ramblin’ Jack Elliott)
15. My Name Is New York (Woody Guthrie) home demo tape
16. Go Down to the Water (Billy Bragg & Wilco)
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Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. 3-CD. 2014.
