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Woody Guthrie

Few artists in folk music history carry the enduring influence of Woody Guthrie, whose most famous song This Land Is Your Land is central to American culture and is almost considered the alternative American national anthem. Guthrie's solidarity with the working man and woman was shaped by the deprivation he saw during the dust bowl storms which struck Oklahoma and Texas in the 1930s, wrecking the lives of hundreds of families and driving them en masse to seek a better life in California. He played guitar and sang to keep their spirits up on their journey, making up songs about t...