In Dylan's music and presentation, Oscar Brand hears his old friend and music-mate, Woody Guthrie.
Wenzel says audiences in Germany were skeptical about his decision to record an album of Woody Guthrie songs.
Wenzel says he is bringing Woody Guthrie's music back home, completing a circle.
He was influenced by Celtic music and Woody Guthrie, but also, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers and The Beatles.
When folk songwriting legend Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind more than 3, 000 songs, most of them unpublished and unrecorded.
Arlo Guthrie is the oldest son of folk-music legend Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a dancer in the Martha Graham Company.
By reading, traveling and listening to country and folk music (especially Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie), he also developed a political consciousness.
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Some songs, such as the Woody Guthrie-esque lament "Cardboard Avenue, " push the influences together to create a new style that's distinctively Cooder.
"Wenzel says he feels he's joined what he calls a spirit club with Woody Guthrie they share what the Germans call a geist, " Ulaby says.
Fritz Klaetke, the art director for "Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, " won a Grammy for producing the best boxed or special limited edition package.
The producer, who retired four years ago, won a Grammy in 1989 for his work on Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly.
On his first album, his first original song is Song to Woody, which is built on the melody of a Woody Guthrie song, so the nod there is apparent.
It sounds like a stretch for a band that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.
His mindfulness of the creative chain snaking from Woody Guthrie to Chuck Berry to Dylan and Lennon is a major element of what his albums are about, political and socioeconomic issues aside.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, all kitted out in Aran sweaters knitted by Mrs Clancy, triumphantly rode the wave of a folk revival that was turning Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie into stars.
Later, through his radio broadcasts in the 1940s, Lomax helped bring wide exposure to such American folk icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and continued making field recordings throughout the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland and Spain.
The dispute centred on how much U.S. company Ludlow Music should earn in revenues for allowing Williams and his record company to borrow from late U.S. folk singer Woody Guthrie's 1961 song "I am the Way, " whose copyright it owns.
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