Newly released home tapes by Woody Guthrie are revealing
“A populist poet laureate for America past and present, Oklahoma native Woody Guthrie (1912-67) was progressively deteriorating from hereditary Huntington‘s chorea in 1950 when his publisher, Howie Richmond of TRO Essex, gave him a just-introduced two-track home tape recorder for his new songs, revisions of older ones, philosophizing, and personal messages.” | Read More at WMBR
