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Woody's Road - Woody Guthrie's Letters Home, Drawings, Photos, and Other Unburied Treasures (Hardcover)
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Woody's Road - Woody Guthrie's Letters Home, Drawings, Photos, and Other Unburied Treasures (Hardcover)
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The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced
generations of musicians and fans with his witty journalism and
landmark songs, such as This Land Is Your Land. Much has been
written about Guthrie, yet nothing communicates who he was so well
as the ideas that he set to paper with his own hand. This new
biography is accompanied by a significant Guthrie family collection
of rare Woody creations, many of which have never been seen before
by the public.These letters to family, photos, drawings, and lyrics
reveal Woody s budding personality as he grew from a young boy into
a man of remarkable strength and character, becoming America s most
publicly visible political activist and the legendary musician who
influenced Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ani Di
Franco, and so many others.Few people realize that Woody s sister,
Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon, is alive and well to this day. She and
Guthrie authority Guy Logsdon shed light on Woody s early life and
what formed his remarkably strong personality, as seen in his many
poignant and impassioned letters, such as those reporting the death
of his daughter in a New York fire. The considerable influence on
Woody s personality of his father Charlie Guthrie can now be traced
in private letters and testimonials as Woody moves from his Texas
years to roaming the USA, to military service, and to New York,
where his national career bloomed as he became an accomplished
spokesman.Beyond the plain folksy wit of Woody the journalist and
performer, we discover here the intensely intelligent and
articulate man whose brilliance for the written word was perhaps
overshadowed by his artistry in drawings, paintings, and musical
performance. "
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