Ninety years ago, on New Years Eve, a powerful thunderstorm swept through the San Gabriel Mountains. It unleashed a violent flood of water, rocks, and mud that roared down the canyons, uprooted trees, destroyed homes, swept away cars, and resulted in nearly a hundred deaths. Five years later Woody Guthrie[…]
85 Years since Woody Guthrie’s Radio Show in Los Angeles Darryl Holter: The Making of Radio Songs On July 19, 1937, Woody Guthrie and his cousin, Jack “Oklahoma” Guthrie, aired their first radio show on KFVD in Los Angeles. It was a fifteen-minute show that started at 8 a.m.[…]
Los Angeles New Year’s Flood: In Song and Video By Darryl Holter | April 2019 On New Year’s Day in 1934 a powerful rainstorm turned the Los Angeles River into a raging torrent of water boulders that destroyed bridges, roads, and homes. The bodies of more than 40 persons were[…]
Podcast Interview on The Trump Survival Guide Hosts Howard Jacobson and Gene Stone With guest Darryl Holter Resisting Trump in the Tradition of Woody Guthrie with Darryl Holter Listen to it here. Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
89.3 KPCC Interview: Local authors explore Woody Guthrie’s time in Los Angeles 19 Jan 2016 89.3 KPCC Interview: AirTalk Lively and in-depth discussions of city news, politics, science, entertainment, the arts, and more. Hosted by Larry Mantle Listen to the Interview Here Guests: Darryl Holter, co-author of “Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937[…]
Woody Guthrie Annual CD/DVD Review Darryl Holter Radio Songs Woody Guthrie Annual, (2015): Will Kaufman, Review, Radio Songs CD/DVD Review: Darryl Holter, Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles, 1937-1939 – Will Kaufman Purchase & listen today! Bandcamp: Radio Songs on Bandcamp Spotify: Radio Songs on Spotify In spite of all[…]
Darryl Holter Article Los Angeles Times Woody Guthrie’s ‘California Stars’ Premiere: Darryl Holter and Woody Guthrie’s ‘California Stars’ BY Randy Lewis March 3, 2015 One of the big archival folk music releases of 2014 was “My Name is New York: Ramblin’ Around Woody Guthrie’s Town,” examining the years in the[…]
Darryl Holter grabbed his guitar, hung a harmonica around his neck, and played four songs from his new album, Radio Songs in Downtown LA last week. Standing on the street corner of Fourth and Main, recently designated as Woody Guthrie Square, Darryl explained to a noon-time crowd that the songs[…]
