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"Bringing Woody Home"
“Contemporary singer and songwriter Larry Long had a mission: to take Woody Guthrie's music back to the Dust Bowl balladeer's hometown. Okemah, OK, had spent about 40 years with its jaw set against its most famous native son. Decent folk there called him a Communist and said a determined "NO" when The Guthrie family proposed a kind of museum at the decaying homeplace back in the '70s. "It would just attract hippies," said the decent folk who knew this Woody was just trouble. Long's gentle subversion was to teach Guthrie's songs to the kids of Okemah and encourage them to make up their own songs in Guthrie's kid-friendly idiom. The results were recorded at a local theater by the Flying Fish label, and now Okemah's water tower proudly proclaims the town as "Home of Woody Guthrie."
—Mark A. Humphrey, All Music Guide
The Woody Guthrie Festival came out of this mission, and today it is now an annual event. In July 2001, Larry joined the celebration of Woody Guthrie's Birthday in his hometown with his son Arlo Guthrie and other Guthrie family members:
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Arlo Guthrie |
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Larry Long & Bill Miller with Woody's sister Mary Jo Edgmon and members of the Guthrie Family |
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