Sarah Lee Guthrie says 'bring the kids.' A lot of people who come to see Arlo, her father, don't think that way. But for this tour, Sarah says, think kids. 'It's really a family show, and it's really fun,' she says. 'We have ages 2 to 62 on stage. We're certainly encouraging more families to play music. So I hope that people might be inspired to bring their kids.' Sarah, 30, along with her husband Johnny Irion, their two daughters and other Guthries and friends, recently recorded a children's album, 'Go Waggaloo.' It was released Oct. 27 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 'John Smith, from Smithsonian ... called us up and asked if we would consider making a kind of kids' record, a family record, that wouldn't make anybody want to jump out of a minivan,' Sarah says. 'We totally understood what he meant.' They already had choruses they'd been singing to their daughters, so they wrote the verses -- well, sometimes their kids did. For the song 'If Mama Had Four Hands,' their father asked Olivia, 7, what mama would do if she had four hands. 'And so,' Sarah says, 'she wrote the verses, you know. 'She would paint with me. She would tie my shoes. She would feed the baby and fold the laundry.' That was kind of the process for a lot of those songs.' Three are songs that Sarah's grandfather, Woody Guthrie, wrote. Sarah put music to his lyrics. They recorded the album in their new home in Washington, Mass., four miles from Arlo's spread. 'We just built this house made of wood. You know, it's like the inside of a guitar,' Sarah says. 'And for a kids' record, it was even more perfect, because to get kids into a studio, and one, two, three sing, doesn't always work. So we were able to be natural and be in our house, and when it was inspiring, and we wanted to sing, and the kids wanted to sing, we were able to press record.' Three of the songs make it into the show, she says. But the show is a mix of Guthrie talents. 'Well, there's a whole lot of us Guthries,' she says, laughing. 'Everybody gets a spotlight to do what they do. It's really a collage of us doing our own songs but also paying tribute to our grandfather, who was kind of the reason why we're all here and doing this, and why so many people do this.' Sarah Lee Guthrie is 30, less than half the age of her father, Arlo. She's been playing with him on road for 11 years. And now, two weeks after the release of 'Go Waggaloo,' a children's album recorded by Sarah and her husband Johnny Irion with other Guthries and friends, it's time to let her talk. Q: How'd the album come about? A: We thought about doing a children's record for a long time, since Olivia was born, and we started making up songs with and for her. She's now 7 years old. So we had racked up all these songs for her. And then we had Sophia two years ago. So a lot of the songs that we sang to Olivia when she was younger, you know, the song you got to sing to them to get their shoes on and inspire them to get into the bathtub or brush their teeth and that kind of stuff, were relevant again. So we were remembering some of those. A lot of different things came together all at once. We had Sophia. We built a house here in Massachusetts, close to my family, where I grew up. So we had my sister and her kids, and my brother and his kids, and mom and dad. So we're back with all the cousins and the kids around. And Smithsonian Folkways gave us a call. John Smith, from Smithsonian, had been talking to Johnny a bit. And he called us up and asked if we would consider making a kind of kids' record, a family record, that wouldn't make anybody want to jump out of a minivan. We totally understood what he meant, and we were thrilled that they called. They put out so many of my grandfather's records and a lot of the Pete Seeger records that we loved. And they're so wonderful about keeping the traditions alive. I just was completely honored that they even thought of me to be in line with all of these great, wonderful people. We decided to make the record in our house, which was perfect, because we just built this house made of wood. You know, it's like the inside of a guitar. And for a kids' record, it was even more perfect, because to get kids into a studio, and one, two, three sing, doesn't always work. So we were able to be natural and be in our house, and when it was inspiring, and we wanted to sing, and the kids wanted to sing, we were able to press record. Q: How did you select the songs? A: A lot of them were songs that were choruses, and it wasn't until we decided to make the record that we went back and actually wrote the songs. Like 'If Mama Had Four Hands,' for example. Johnny sat down with Olivia and was like, 'What would mama do if she had four hands?' And so she wrote the verses, you know, 'She would paint with me. She would tie my shoes. She would feed the baby and fold the laundry.' That was kind of the process for a lot of those songs. Some of the songs were actually written by my grandfather. Three of them, as a matter of fact. . . . Smithsonian Folkways handed me a folder of what they had in their archives of Woody Guthrie children's songs that had never been recorded. We didn't know how the tune was supposed to go to them, you know. And so I got the opportunity to co-write with my grandfather, in a way, and put some melodies to some lyrics that he wrote back in about 1947. Q: Do you play any of them on this tour? A: We're having a great time with 'Show and Tell.' The kids are taking verses, and we're making up verses every night. It's a blast. We do about three of the songs on the tour and have been kind of changing them out, trying to figure out which ones are going to work best. Q: For the folks coming to the show, what can they expect? A: Well, there's a whole lot of us Guthries. ... Everybody gets a spotlight to do what they do. It's really a collage of us doing our own songs but also paying tribute to our grandfather, who was kind of the reason why we're all here and doing this, and why so many people do this. Q: What's it been like growing up as Arlo Guthrie's daughter? A: Well Ah I don't know, I mean I'm kind of the daughter of a hippie, a traveling hippie. I don't know It's not like he came home and sang songs around the campfire with us or anything like that. It was more normal than that. We're from a small town in western Massachusetts. And we all went to school like regular people until I was 12 years old, and I went off to boarding school on an ashram in Florida with a guru and the whole thing. I think that's kind of funny. Most people go to their grandparents for the summer. My hippie parents sent us to an ashram. Q: Wasn't he away a lot? A: 'Yeah He really was. I can't remember him ever being at a birthday of ours or anything like that. But you get used to that, you know. It was never a problem. I loved when he was home, when he got home, and he had gifts for us, from Germany, things like that. It was so exciting. Even if it was only three days, we loved spending time with dad. And then we'd beg him to go on the road with him, and every once in a while we got to. Q: Was music always a part of your household? A: In the older days, when I was real, real young, the Dillards, a bluegrass band -- they were really good friends of my mom and dad. They would come and stay for weeks and pick bluegrass tunes around a table. . . And Hoyt Axton would show up, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott and of course Pete Seeger ... These people were definitely around our house and would come play music with dad. Q: That sounds so magical, but it was normal for you. A: It's definitely more magical to me now when I look back at it, because at the time I had no idea what that meant. Q: Do you live near Arlo? A: Actually four miles away. I bought a farm. He's got a big farm. They have a few houses, and my brother lives there. Johnny and I decided to buy our own land four miles away. My sister's property touches my property. We're a town of 500. ... It's in Washington, Mass. Q: Anything else you'd like to say about the show? A: I would encourage people to bring their kids. A lot of people who go to see Arlo aren't necessarily thinking, 'Bring your kids.' It's really a family show, and it's really fun. We have ages 2 to 62 on stage. And I think it's really fun for families to see that. We're certainly encouraging more families to play music. So I hope that people might be inspired to bring their kids.' 