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  • Woody Guthrie

    This is the second in a series of folk musician portraits. Woody was known as the 'Dust Bowl Troubadour'. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he experienced the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression and travelled to California with the migrant workers, learning their songs. He's sort of the John Steinbeck of folk music.

    Here are a couple of close-up details: