Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
9 posts | 8 read | 6 to read
Bound For Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open road during the Great Depression - hell-raising and brawling in boxcars, all the while singing to raise a dime for his next meal. But above all, this is a song for an America Woody saw from the lonesome highway, as he travel led from one end of the country to the other with guitar in hand and the songs that made him a legend drifting out over the Dust Bowl.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
Anna40
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
post image
Mehso-so

The dialogs in slang spoiled it for me. Very hard to get into. When Guthrie writes about people he meets, human nature or describes Dust Bowl era America the book is at its best. Maybe if I'd had picked Bound for Glory up in a different time I would have enjoyed it more but I found myself skipping parts of the book and that's never a good sign... Love Guthrie's music though...

blurb
PagesOfKate
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
post image

Hobo Chic and Railroad Blues.
It's time to hit the road.... #wevegottagetoutofthisplace
#MarchintoOz @Cinfhen @Lizpixie

71 likes2 stack adds
quote
GoneFishing
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie

I got a job from Uncle Samuel to come to the valley of the Columbia River and I made up and recorded 26 songs about the Grand Coulee Dam. I made 2 albums of records called “Dust Bowl Ballads” for the Victor people. I hit the road again and crossed the continent twice by way of highways and freights. Folks heard me on the nationwide radio programs CBS and NBC, and thought I was rich and famous, and I didn‘t have a nickel to my name...

Angelala007 I bought this book after seeing Arlo in concert. I've got to move it up in my pile ❤️ 7y
39 likes1 comment
quote
GoneFishing
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie

And then a couple of months wheeled past, and I found myself walking all around with my head down, still out of a job, and asking other folks why they had their heads down. But most people was tough, and they still kept their heads up.

quote
GoneFishing
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie

All of this talking about what‘s up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn‘t half as important as what‘s right here, right now, right in front of our eyes. Things are tough. Folks Broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has just got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There‘s a spirit of some kind we‘ve all got. That‘s got to draw us all together.

Suet624 👏🏼💕💕💕 7y
30 likes1 comment
quote
GoneFishing
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie

And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowing kind, I seen plenty to make up songs about.

Suet624 Where is today's Woody? 7y
26 likes1 comment
blurb
Gina
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
post image

1943 copy featuring Woody's sketches throught. Looking forward to learning more about this icon through his own perception.

"This train don't carry no rustlers,
Whores, pimps, or side-street hustlers;
This train is bound for glory,
This train."

blurb
MMenefee
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
post image

This land was made for you and me!

rachellayown 💜💙💚💛 7y
70 likes1 comment
blurb
brendanmleonard
Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie
post image

HBD to one of America's greatest songwriters - a man who's powerful political messages have been scrubbed from the popular imagination, but whose prophetic songs remain starkly relevant. (I like alliteration 😂) And, of course, his influence on Dylan cannot be denied.

MrBook You talked me into reading this. 😉👍🏻 8y
Angelala007 I got this one after seeing Arlo in concert. You've inspired me to move it to the top of the pile 💙 8y
SusanInTiburon I'm still stinging from our spontaneous national adoption of God Bless America for all public occasions after 9/11. If we needed a second anthem, why not This Land Is Your Land?😤 I thought I was over it, but, oh Woody. 🤐 8y
66 likes2 stack adds3 comments