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.

This genetic brain disorder turned Woody Guthrie’s life from songs to suffering Huntington's disease -- which Guthrie inherited from his mother -- can lead to serious mood disorders ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings ... married three times and fathered eight children (of whom Arlo Guthrie is the eldest son), sweeping through ...