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It's far less jukebox musical than a kind of down-home playlist - a splendid swirl of tunes coming and going, each telling and supporting the story. 'Woody Sez' is a low-key, high-spirited celebration of Guthrie's music, featuring 30 folk songs (Guthrie's and other traditional tunes). 21 at Northlight Theatre, inside the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd. 'Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie,' a stage musical presenting just that, opens Sept. 14 at D.C.'s Kennedy Center (with Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Donovan, Lucinda Williams and more) - before wrapping the centennial and moving the Archives from New York to its new home in Tulsa, Okla.Ĭhicagoans can catch one last centennial event - a good one - during the next few weeks. 22 in Brooklyn (with Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle and more) and Oct. A few more national concerts are on tap - Sept.

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The varied Woody100 centennial events this year featured many posthumously hailing Guthrie, indeed, as a 'great genius.' They included six academic conferences (I spoke at one in March in my and Guthrie's home state), folk concerts big (a Los Angeles hoedown in April featuring Graham Nash, John Doe, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kris Kristopherson and more) and small (Chicago's own tribute show in May), plus exhibits, plays and more. In a post-Occupy landscape, Guthrie's topical, rabble-rousing spirit seems infused into everything from the street-marching 'guitararmy' in New York City and elsewhere, often led by Chicago-area native Tom Morello, to the latest output from Bruce Springsteen (his new album, his SXSW keynote speech).

That would have been clear this year - even without a string of celebrations marking Guthrie's 100th birthday. But as Nora Guthrie, Woody's daughter and the overseer of the Archives, told me earlier this year, 'The influence of my father's music lives today, and will live throughout the 21st century.'

Guthrie himself certainly never got rich off his music, and I don't think anyone else has, either.

He continued, foreshadowing the collection of his notebooks, lyrics and artwork that now constitutes the Woody Guthrie Archives: 'And when somebody steps in and buys up all of your diaries and scribblings and songs and poems they call you the greatest feller which ever lived, so's your debtors and loaners can get rich off the stink of your dead bones and yaller pages of ideas.' 'After you starve clean to the rim of death they call you a professional, and after you die off they call you a great genius.' 'The hungrier you get up here in New York, the more they run your picture,' Guthrie wrote to his younger sister in 1949, inserting a photo of himself from The New York Times. He knew how the fame game worked - it hasn't changed much, even since his 1940s folksinging heyday - and he seemed to know exactly what would happen to his own musical legacy. Woody Guthrie, despite his aw-shucks Okie persona, was no fool.