The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949

The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
Live album by
Woody Guthrie
ReleasedSeptember 6, 2007 (2007-09-06)
Recorded1949 at Fuld Hall, Newark, New Jersey, United States
GenreFolk
Length74:54
LabelWoody Guthrie Archives
ProducerNora Guthrie Jorge Arévalo Mateus
Woody Guthrie chronology
Dear Mr. President
(1942) 		The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
(2007)

The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949 is a recording of a concert by Woody Guthrie in Newark, New Jersey, one of a small number of surviving live recordings of the folk singer. The program consists of Guthrie answering questions from his wife Marjorie Guthrie about his life, and singing songs. The recording was made on an inexpensive wire recorder by Paul Braverman, and a significant restoration process was required to clean up the audio on the two spools of wire.[1] In 2008 the album won a Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.[2]

  1. ^ Woody Guthrie Foundation. The Live Wire. 2007. Retrieved March 1, 2008
  2. ^ "Grammy Award for Best Historical Album – Grammys Best Historical Album". www.awardsandshows.com. Retrieved 2021-12-08.