The Resume

(July 14, 1912-October 3, 1967)
Birth Name is Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Wrote the song 'This Land is your land.'
Father of modern folk music and Arlo Guthrie

Why he might be annoying:

His parents named him after the the president.
He wrote a lot of protest songs.
He supported the Communist party (he never joined because of his refusal to give up religion).
He was married to three different women.
He often travelled the country living like a hobo.
His music was later embraced by hippies.

Why he might not be annoying:

He wrote 'This Land is Your Land' because he hated Irving Berlin's 'Good Bless America.'
He was commissioned by the Department of Interior to write songs about the Columbia River.
He served in World War II.
His daughter Cathy was killed in a fire when she was four.
He suffered from Huntington's Chorea, which left him bedridden and unable to preform for the last years of his life.
He inspired many modern musicians, including Bob Dylan and Beck.

Credit: Long Tall Sally

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Bob Dylan References
• Body Part Names
• Born on Bastille Day [July 14th] (Ranked: 1912)
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [July] (Ranked: 7141912)
• Celebrities on the Cover of Rolling Stone’s 1,000th Issue [May 7, 2006]
• Featured in AudioSlave's 'Original Fire' Video
• Folk Singers
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 2000)
• I am an Okie
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [D-G]
• I Covered 'House of the Rising Sun'
• I Covered 'Stagger Lee'
• I Did Not Graduate High School [F-I]
• I Died in 1967 (Ranked: 55)
• I Recorded ‘Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’
• I Sing About an S.T.D.
• I Sing About Los Angeles
• I Was Homeless
• I'm Remembered in a Tribute Song
• Linda Ronstadt Covered My Song
• Long Tall Sally/Misty Anne's Profiles
• Look at My Guitar
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1989)
• Profiles 11501-11750 (Ranked: 11718)
• Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Musical Stars of the 20th Century (Ranked: 63)
• Q Magazine's 100 Songs that Changed the World [Artists] (Ranked: 73)
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Members (Ranked: 1988)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters (Ranked: 28)
• Songs of the Century [2001] (Ranked: 3)
• Stacker’s Most Controversial Song from the Year You Were Born (Ranked: 1940)
• Stacker’s Most Controversial Song from the Year You Were Born (Ranked: 1942)
• Stacker’s Most Controversial Song from the Year You Were Born (Ranked: 1948)
• Vocalists Who Spell It Out
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19671003)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 53 Votes: 64.15% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 52 Votes: 42.31% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 23 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 18 Votes: 72.22% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 53 Votes: 37.74% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 60 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 134 Votes: 65.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 50 Votes: 38.00% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 42 Votes: 38.10% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 81 Votes: 50.62% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 219 Votes: 42.92% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 286 Votes: 42.66% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 184 Votes: 45.65% Annoying