Woody Guthrie still inspires, 100 years on from his birth

In his centenary year, the songs of the father of protest live on in the music of Dylan and Springsteen. But his radical approach to life provides arguably an even greater legacyWoody Guthrie was, as his daughter Nora told me yesterday, "the last of the great European troubadours and first singer-songwriter punk rocker". He was born on 14 July – Bastille Day – 1912 and this week Britain and America are preparing for the centenary of the birth of the folk singer who is the founding father of ...

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