Nora Guthrie on Artistic Legacies
Kurt Andersen and Nora Guthrie, Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Archives, talk about nurturing an artist’s legacy.
Guthrie is the daughter of folk music legend Woody Guthrie. She’s also the curator of the current Smithsonian traveling exhibition,This Land is Your Land, which looks at Woody’s life, legacy, and his lasting influence on American music and culture, and is the driving force behindMermaid AvenueandMermaid Avenue II, the acclaimed collaborative albums of her father’s unrecorded lyricsby Billy Bragg and Wilco.
(Originally aired: March 24, 2001).
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