Records of the Bonneville Power Administration. 1936 - 2006. Woody Guthrie Columbia River Basin Songs. 1940 - 1977. Jackhammer Blues / The Grand Coulee Dam
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967
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Woody Guthrie, American folk singer, born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912 and raised in Texas, moved to California during the Depression, where he met actor and activist Will Geer and toured migrant labor camps documenting conditions and injustices in the camps for The Light newspaper. He also performed on Los Angeles radio KFVD-LA, singing old-time ballads, some of which he updated with lyrics about contemporary issues. Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Lib...
