JOHN STEINBECK wrote "There is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those willing to listen." ... MILLARD LAMPELL of the famous 40's folk group The Almanac Singers (which included Woody and PETE SEEGER) created the template for "Woody Sez" in 1956. He put together "CALIFORNIA TO THE NEW YORK ISLAND," a program of Woody's words and music performed as a tribute by a group of some thirty performers, players and pre-school dancers. Fifty-odd years later, David Lutken, Nick Corley, Darcie Deaville, Helen Russell and Andy Teirstein weave Woody's songs together with excerpts and anecdotes from his books "American Folksong," "Bound for Glory" and others, and the columns he wrote for the "PEOPLE'S DAILY WORLD " (themselves styled after "WILL ROGERS SAYS," the famed Oklahoma humourists newspaper commentary of previous decades) to create a concert narrative - a biographical, political, and personal portrait of one of the world's immortal troubadours. -DML