Almansor Court – 700 S. Almansor, Alhambra, CA. Social Hour: 5:00 PM Dinner: 6:00 PM Our Speaker: Darryl Holter His Subject: This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles, 1937-1941 Woody Guthrie was, and still is, one of the most beloved of all American singers and songwriters. Guthrie’s very productive years in Los Angeles[…]
2020 Vision: A New Song for a New Year A new song by Darryl Holter: Among Democrats there is a lot of scrambling around to see what to do next. I think the most important thing to do is to prepare working class voters who voted for Trump to understand[…]
Darryl Holter Reviews 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest. for Woody Guthrie Annual The Woody Guthrie Annual is an open-access peer-reviewed journal containing the most up-to-date scholarship on Woody Guthrie, his work and his cultural and political[…]
Darryl Holter Book Review Woody Guthrie Annual Managing Editor: Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire The Woody Guthrie Annual is an open-access peer-reviewed journal containing the most up-to-date scholarship on Woody Guthrie, his work and his cultural and political significance. The journal is published once a year, between June and[…]
Julia Holter Premieres New Film Soundtrack, LA Times Review by Randall Roberts, LA Times Nov 10 2016 Over the last five years the Los Angeles composer and avant-pop singer Julia Holter has moved from issuing vinyl-only compositions based on ancient Greek plays and musique concrete-inspired mixtapes to becoming an interdisciplinary[…]
I was saddened to learn this morning about the death of Tom Hayden. I read a lot of his writings in the late 60s and early 70s, especially the very important political document of the times, The Port Huron Statement. I talked to Tom once in an airport when he[…]
The Southern Cal Indie Book Sellers Association (SCIBA) Fall 2016 Trade Show is having its annual trade show today and tomorrow in North Hollywood. Darryl Holter will be doing a presentation on Woody Guthrie tonight at 6 pm. Darryl and William Deverell’s book, Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941, was[…]
Los Angeles Central Library review on LA Review of Books by Darryl Holter Darryl Holter is a historian, entrepreneur, musician, and owner of an independent bookstore. He has taught history at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA and is an adjunct professor at USC. LOS ANGELES BOOMED in the early[…]
Look who’ll be at both baggage claim areas to greet you the next time you fly to Tulsa International Airport! TULSA, Okla. — It took Woody Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah more than 30 years after his death to finally celebrate his life and work with an annual music festival, and[…]
Read the review of Darryl Holter’s New Album, ‘Radio Songs by Woody Guthrie’ Country Music People magazine by Paul Riley Archive: Jun 2015 DARRYL HOLTER Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie In Los Angeles 1937-1939 Any discussion about American folk music should begin with Woody Guthrie. He died in 1967 and since[…]
