Editing Woody Guthrie (section)

====''Bound for Glory''====
Guthrie was a prolific writer, penning thousands of pages of unpublished poems and prose, many written while living in New York City. After a recording session with Alan Lomax, Lomax suggested Guthrie write an autobiography. Lomax thought Guthrie's descriptions of growing up were some of the best accounts he had read of American childhood.<ref>{{cite book|page=201|first=Ed|last=Cray|date=2004|title= Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie|url=https://archive.org/details/ramblinman00edcr|url-access=registration|publisher= W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393047592}}</ref> During this time, Guthrie met Marjorie Mazia (the professional name of Marjorie Greenblatt), a dancer in New York who would become his second wife. Mazia was an instructor at the [[Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance|Martha Graham Dance School]], where she was assisting [[Sophie Maslow]] with her piece ''Folksay''. Based on the folklore and poetry collected by [[Carl Sandburg]], ''Folksay'' included the adaptation of some of Guthrie's ''Dust Bowl Ballads'' for the dance.<ref name=Cray200/> Guthrie continued to write songs and began work on his autobiography. The end product, [[Bound for Glory (book)|''Bound for Glory'']], was completed with editing assistance by Mazia and was first published by E.P. Dutton in 1943.<ref>Amazon.com. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007E0CZ2 ''Bound for Glory'' (Unknown Binding).] Retrieved November 27, 2007.</ref> It is told in the artist's down-home dialect. The ''Library Journal'' complained about the "too careful reproduction of illiterate speech". However, Clifton Fadiman, reviewing the book in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', remarked that "Someday people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession, like [[Yellowstone]] and [[Yosemite]], and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world."<ref>Isserman, Maurice [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-01-18-0401170325-story.html "Life of Woody Guthrie is thorough, if unoriginal"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Chicago, January 18, 2004. Retrieved on March 9, 2021.</ref>

This book was the inspiration for the movie ''[[Bound for Glory (1976 film)|Bound for Glory]]'', starring [[David Carradine]], which won the 1976 [[Academy Award for Original Music Score]] for Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score, and the [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actor]], among other accolades.

In 1944, Guthrie met [[Moses Asch|Moses "Moe" Asch]] of [[Folkways Records]], for whom he first recorded "This Land Is Your Land". Over the next few years, he recorded "[[Worried Man Blues]]", along with [[Woody Guthrie discography#1944 & 1945, The Asch Recordings|hundreds of other songs]]. These recordings would later be released by Folkways and Stinson Records, which had joint distribution rights.<ref>Klein, ''Woody Guthrie'', p.&nbsp;417.</ref> The Folkways recordings are available (through the [[Smithsonian Institution]] online shop); the most complete series of these sessions, culled from dates with Asch, is titled ''[[The Asch Recordings (Woody Guthrie Album)|The Asch Recordings]]''.