Thursday, October 11, 2012

Woody Guthrie at 100 - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Woody Guthrie at 100 - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Woody Guthrie at 100

The folk icon remains elusive and understudied

"Why do we continue to talk about Woody so many years on?" Bruce Springsteen asked recently. "Never had a hit, never went platinum, never played in an arena, never got his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone." Springsteen's answer: Guthrie is a "big, big ghost in the machine."

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