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Writer, singer, and political activist, Woody Guthrie is perhaps the single most important figure to have influenced the tradition of American folk music in our time. During his life, Guthrie wrote more than twelve hundred songs, including what has become the unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land," the rollicking "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You," and the moving "Pastures of Plenty." <p>Wherever he was, Woody Guthrie surrounded himself with like-minded friends, artists, and performers. In California, he met actor Will Geer, singer Cisco Houston, and author John Steinbeck. In New York City he met Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and Huddie Ledbetter, and became a member of the politically active Almanac Singers. Despite moments of success, and fame, Guthrie never forgot his calling or his roots. In the same manner that Steinbeck's seminal The Grapes of Wrath and Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men emerged from, and later defined, the Great Depression, Woody Guthrie's music honored and heartened the abandoned, the lost, the dispossessed and disgruntled in an America darkened by poverty. His was the voice of Everyman.</p> <p>Guthrie's life was particul

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Author

Ed Cray

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393327366

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Music

Rating

4.15 / 5 (161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14