Woody Guthrie "This Land Is Your Land". He said it was a response to what he felt was the overplaying of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on the radio. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children. His son Arlo Guthrie became nationally known as a musician. Guthrie died in 1967 from complications of Huntington's disease. His first two daughters also died of the disease. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement, providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentoring Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. Guthrie
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in May 2018 at the Bob Childers' Gypsy Cafe in Stillwater, Oklahoma - made her third festival appearance. Her winning song, titled "The Sidewalk Song", addresses homelessness. When Ken (whose name is short for McKenan) was in the 8th grade, she wrote a 9-minute song about Woody Guthrie for National History Day Contest that won both regional and state competitions, enabling her to also compete at the national level in Washngton, DC. "Woody Guthrie in general has always been a really influential person to me, especially because of his conversation topics in his songwriting,” said Pomeroy, 15, who counts the