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First Published in 1943 America's greatest folk musician. Woody Guthrie (1912- 1967) was born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma. In 1926 he moved to Pampa, Texas. He left his dust bowl Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering of America's working class. Woody set off hitch-hiking and riding the rails through the West, signing and writing hundreds of songs. - In Bound for Glory, Guthrie writes; "And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowin kind, I seen there was plenty to make up songs about. I never did make up any songs about the cow trails or the moon skipping through the sky, but at first it was funny songs or songs about what all's wrong, and how it turned out good or bad. Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since." A film, with the same title was released December 5, 1976, directed by Hal Ashby and starring David Carradine as Woody. The story of an American legend or legendary American.Read full review
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