Larry Long

Modern singer and songwriter Larry Lengthy had a mission: to consider Woody Guthrie’s music back again to the Dust Dish balladeer’s hometown. Okemah, Oklahoma experienced spent about 40 years using its jaw arranged against its most well-known native child. Decent folk there known as him a Communist and stated a decided “NO” when the Guthrie family members proposed some sort of museum in the decaying hometown back the ’70s. “It could simply attract hippies,” stated the good folk who understood this Woody was simply trouble. Long’s soft subversion was to instruct Guthrie’s tracks to the youngsters of Okemah and cause them to become constitute their own tracks in Guthrie’s kid-friendly idiom. The outcomes were documented at an area theater with the Traveling Seafood label, and henceforth Okemah’s drinking water tower happily proclaimed the city as “House of Woody Guthrie.” Long’s produces have got included 1988’s IT REQUIRES lots of people…, 1992’s Troubadour, 1996’s Right here I Stand, and 2000’s Well Might the World Move. In 2006 Long created the singalong Compact disc I AM Your Friend: Tracks and Actions for Little Peacemakers, distributed cost-free to institutions and other agencies through the Teaching Tolerance task from the Southern Poverty Rules Center. He came back with his record Don’t Stand Still in the Cereus Information label in 2011.