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! Read ^ This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie He was ravaged by Huntington's disease, just like his mother, and died in a mental institution at the age of fifty-five.Award-winning author, Elizabeth Partridge has taken the life of this songwriting genius and woven in his lyrics, and other rich materials to create a touching and highly entertaining portrait of a true talent.. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an exampl
| Title | : | This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1422365255 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
(Years later, Woody's four-year-old daughter died from severe burns.) In chronicling Guthrie's cross-country ramblings and his relationships with his three wives, children and fellow musicians, Partridge offers intriguing insight into the singer as well as the creation of his songs. Ample quotations, excerpts from his lyrics, reproductions of his sketches and photographs infuse these pages with Guthrie's spontaneous and charismatic if erratic personality. Ages 12-up. Drawing from Guthrie's autobiographical writings and correspondence and from original interviews (with the singer's children Arlo and Nora, and Pete Seeger, among others), the author painstakingly charts his subject's itinerant, often troubled life. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Infor
He was ravaged by Huntington's disease, just like his mother, and died in a mental institution at the age of fifty-five.Award-winning author, Elizabeth Partridge has taken the life of this songwriting genius and woven in his lyrics, and other rich materials to create a touching and highly entertaining portrait of a true talent.. With a remarkable ability to turn any experience into a song almost instantaneously, Woody Guthrie spoke out for people of all colors and races, setting an example for generations of musicians to come. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody to
4+ C. Davidson I have not read other books about Woody, but I don't feel I have to, to get an appreciation of who he was and where he came from. Until I read this book, I really had no idea what a great musician he was. I'm a fan of Arlo, but knew very little about Woody.Woody's parents didn't have. + I have not read other books about Woody, but I don't feel I have to, to get an appreciation of who he was and where he came from. Until I read this book, I really had no idea what a great musician he was. I'm a fan of Arlo, but knew very little about Woody.Woody's parents didn't have. Surprisingly poignant book for adolescents on up to elderly Prior to reading this book I didn't know anything about Woody Guthrie except that he was the folk singer who sang This Land is Your Land. I picked up this book that was on display at my local library and am so glad I did.It turns out that poet, troubadour and hobo Guthrie wrote This . Below me the golden valley Elizabeth Partridge set herself up with a monumentally difficult task when she decided to write an authoritative juvenile biography of the great Woody Guthrie. How to write a story about a man that was simultaneously brilliant and woebegotten? Who spoke out for racial equality, stren
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