Del McCoury will release Del and Woody on April 15 featuring a collection of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to music by Del McCoury.

On the release, Guthrie’s daughter Nora credits McCoury’s Newport Folk Festival set in 2009 as an inspiration for the project. “After hearing Del’s show, I remember thinking that if my dad had had a band, it would very possibly have sounded very much like Del’s.”

“It took a while before I heard his name,” McCoury said. “But then I started learning that so many of the songs I was hearing, from ‘Philadelphia Lawyer’ to ‘This Land Is Your Land,’ were his. So when Nora said she wanted to send me some lyrics, I already knew what a great writer he was. She sent me a few, then sent me some more, a few dozen in all.”

A press release confirms that the Del McCoury Band will tour in support of the project this year. On designated “Del & Woody” shows, the band will perform the album in its entirety with companion videos to each song playing behind them.