This one featured on Ry’s 1972 album, Into the Purple Valley, and the song has also been recorded by Nazareth and Bruce Springsteen. Pete Seeger met Woody Guthrie in New York in 1940.

Woody Guthrie's songwriting was highly politically charged, and orbited themes of socialism and personal liberation in the face of the growth of capitalism and various forms of facism. Songs such ...

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Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...

It wasn’t until I came across [Guthrie’s] work that I found that hope. I believed that the veils had been pulled off." ...