Julia Holter Premieres New Film Soundtrack
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 ... [Read More]
Remembering Tom Hayden
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 ... [Read More]
Southern Cal Indie Book Sellers Association
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 ... [Read More]
Unconfined by Expectation
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 ... [Read More]
Woody Guthrie Tulsa International Airport
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 More]
Country Music People Magazine Review
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 ... [Read More]
New Video: Welcome to the New Depression
Welcome to the New Depression: A New Song by Darryl Holter To write a song about the state of today’s economy I thought it would be useful to look at how other songwriters wrote about the Great Depression in the 1930s. The famous Carter Family had a very ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter at GRAMMY Museum
In conjunction with the recent release of their new co-authored book, Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941, historians William Deverell and Darryl Holter joined GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli for a conversation surrounding the book and the legacy of one of the most iconic and influential songwriters of the ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter and William Deverell on LARB Radio Hour
Woody Guthrie’s Years in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour featuring guests Darryl Holter and William Deverell From January 21, 2016: LARB discusses Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941, a chronicle of Guthrie’s formative years in Los Angeles, during which he not only experimented and refined his music but ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan
Folkworks Review Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan at the Caña Rum Bar – February 19, 2016 By Ross Altman, PhD Dateline, Los Angeles~ The hottest ticket in town turned out to be in a hidden rum bar in the unknown Petroleum Building in the 700 block of Olympic Blvd ... [Read More]
Power of the People, Pasadena Weekly
Power of the People, Pasadena Weekly Power of the People | Pasadena Weekly Singer-songwriter Darryl Holter and fellow historian William Deverell discuss their new book ‘Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941’ and Holter performs at Grammy Museum Tuesday Article by By Bliss Bowen Pasadena Weekly 27 Feb 2016 Woody Guthrie’s been ... [Read More]
Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.
Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 Darryl Holter and William Deverell $40.00 / 50+ vintage photos 208 pages / hardcover / 9″x9″ Preorder this book at http://www.angelcitypress.com/products/guth Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 A Portrait of the ... [Read More]
Julia Holter Premieres New Film Soundtrack
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 ... [Read More]
Remembering Tom Hayden
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 ... [Read More]
Southern Cal Indie Book Sellers Association
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 ... [Read More]
Unconfined by Expectation
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 ... [Read More]
Woody Guthrie Tulsa International Airport
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 More]
Country Music People Magazine Review
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 ... [Read More]
New Video: Welcome to the New Depression
Welcome to the New Depression: A New Song by Darryl Holter To write a song about the state of today’s economy I thought it would be useful to look at how other songwriters wrote about the Great Depression in the 1930s. The famous Carter Family had a very ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter at GRAMMY Museum
In conjunction with the recent release of their new co-authored book, Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941, historians William Deverell and Darryl Holter joined GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli for a conversation surrounding the book and the legacy of one of the most iconic and influential songwriters of the ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter and William Deverell on LARB Radio Hour
Woody Guthrie’s Years in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour featuring guests Darryl Holter and William Deverell From January 21, 2016: LARB discusses Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941, a chronicle of Guthrie’s formative years in Los Angeles, during which he not only experimented and refined his music but ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan
Folkworks Review Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan at the Caña Rum Bar – February 19, 2016 By Ross Altman, PhD Dateline, Los Angeles~ The hottest ticket in town turned out to be in a hidden rum bar in the unknown Petroleum Building in the 700 block of Olympic Blvd ... [Read More]
Power of the People, Pasadena Weekly
Power of the People, Pasadena Weekly Power of the People | Pasadena Weekly Singer-songwriter Darryl Holter and fellow historian William Deverell discuss their new book ‘Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941’ and Holter performs at Grammy Museum Tuesday Article by By Bliss Bowen Pasadena Weekly 27 Feb 2016 Woody Guthrie’s been ... [Read More]
Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.
Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 Darryl Holter and William Deverell $40.00 / 50+ vintage photos 208 pages / hardcover / 9″x9″ Preorder this book at http://www.angelcitypress.com/products/guth Folkworks Book Review of Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941 A Portrait of the ... [Read More]


Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.