Woody Sez – review

Arts, LondonLong before Bob Dylan and the folk-inspired protest singers of the 1960s, there was Woody Guthrie, a troubadour of backwoods America who believed in "singing for the plain folks and getting tough with the rich folks".Born in Oklahoma in 1912, Guthrie drank in the local folk songs with his mother's milk, and his sense of injustice was honed travelling around the country during the Great Depression, when he was part of the exodus from the dustbowl states to California. Guthrie knew wha...

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