Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s a fair bet that anyone who clicks on this article does not need a backstory on Woody Guthrie — legendary singer-songwriter, activist, poet, artist, writer of “This Land Is Your Land” and many other standards and the single greatest influence on Bob Dylan and a generation of musicians.But as a stunning, just-opened exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum shows, there was much more to him than his most well-known songs might indicate.
Most striking of all, as manuscripts of his writings show, he was an amazingly deft wordsmith who would have made a hell of a rapper — and many of his verses and casual writings show a rustic, ribald sense of humor that is rarely present, or at least rarely obvious, in most of his songs. “Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song” — opening today (Feb.
18) and running through May 22, 2022 — features writings, drawings, photos, books, musical instruments, audiovisual media and items from the archives of Dylan, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, but the most fascinating material is in the manuscripts, which one could easily lose a couple of hours standing and reading.There are rare items like the original, handwritten lyrics to “This Land Is Your Land,” which Guthrie composed just a few blocks away from the Morgan; the only known surviving guitar bearing Guthrie’s iconic phrase “This Machine Kills Fascists”; a copy of Bob Dylan’s 1961 debut album that the singer himself handwrote the lyrics to “Song for Woody” on; and even a letter from John Lennon sent to Guthrie’s family in 1975.But just as fascinating are the less-known items.
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