œWhen yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb / When you think you`re too old, too young, too smart or too dumb / When yer laggin` behind an` losin` yer pace / In a slow-motion crawl of life`s busy race”, well, then, according to Bob Dylan’™s ‘œLast Thoughts on Woody Guthrie”, you have two or three options: You can either go to the church of your choiceOr you can go to Brooklyn State HospitalYou`ll find God in the church of your choiceYou`ll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State HospitalAlas, the latter option is no longer available to us as it was for the nineteen year old Dylan, who, in his autobiography Chronicles, describes one his main motives in moving to New York being the desire ‘“ quickly effected – to meet his idol. This new walking guide, My Name is New York, compiled by Woody’™s daughter Nora with the aid of his archives, does, however, offer latter-day travelers wishing to pay homage to the spirit of the great American another alternative. Woody Guthrie rambled and roamed over for almost thirty years ‘“ from 1940 until his death in 1967 ‘“ all over the land he famously claimed to be ‘œmade for you and me”. But did you know that the iconic ‘œThis Land Is Your Land” was written at a small rooming house on 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue in New York, on February 23 1940, within a few days of his first arrival in the city? Or that many of Woody`s most popular songs were written in apartments, lofts, and other locations around “New York Town”? “Jesus Christ,” “Vigilante Man,” “Hard Travelin`,” “Tom Joad,” “Reuben James,” “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” and “1913 Massacre” are among the more than 600 songs which he composed in The Big Apple ‘“ for, despite being termed the ‘œOklahoma Cowboy” when he first arrived in the city, it was New York which he called home, and New York which always returned to. My Name Is New York takes its name from the title of one of Woody Guthrie’™s songs, and is the very first guide book to bring his wonderful New York story to life with historical photos, documents, and previously unpublished lyrics from the Woody Guthrie Archives. Highlighting 19 significant locations, this portable guide provides an expansive yet intimate portrait of Woody`s NYC life where he was at the very heart of the new movement introducing and popularizing rural, roots, topical and protest movement to modern, urban audiences with the help of friends such as Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee and the Almanac Singers. This guide invites you to walk the streets which Woody walked, to ride the buses and subways, or just to sit and relax on some of the stoops, park benches, or beaches where Woody Guthrie did, strumming away on his guitar, always working on a new song. You might want to take along a notebook or two in case his spirit finds you. Oh, and do try and make time for a detour out of the Big Apple to see the Grand Canyon at sundown’ฆ

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