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Today would be Woody Guthrie's 97th birthday.
Woody was already too sick to perform when I started getting into folk music but his influence was everywhere. The simple, direct lyrics of his songs had a huge impact on the way people wrote and his tendency to put new words to old tunes liberated many gifted lyricists who couldn't quite come up with ( Read more... )
Woody was already too sick to perform when I started getting into folk music but his influence was everywhere. The simple, direct lyrics of his songs had a huge impact on the way people wrote and his tendency to put new words to old tunes liberated many gifted lyricists who couldn't quite come up with ( Read more... )
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To have him amongst us .
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