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Woody Guthrie wrote songs about an America with a stunning landscape, of majestic forests, rolling rivers, and deep valleys, hugged by two oceans, where inequality and social injustice sowed roots.

He wrote folk songs for the everyman, songs of tragedy and of triumph, ballads of spiritual death and rebirth.

As Guthrie stated, “A folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it, or it could be who’s hungry and where their mouth is, or who’s out of work and where the job is, or who’s broke and where the money is, or who’s carrying a gun and where the peace is.” In short, Guthrie and his fellow folksinging friends – including Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, and Cisco Houston – sang and wrote songs about struggle and redemption -- a message that has been carried on long after Guthrie’s death by artists like Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Rambli