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Many consider Woody Guthrie to be the godfather of Folk music. He was a blue collar guy to his roots. Even though I was an engineer and IT guy who made a healthy amount, I had very humble beginnings and always considered myself that I blue collar

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Many of his songs are concerned with the conditions faced by working-class people.

In February 1940, he wrote his most famous song, “This Land Is Your Land“, as a response to what he felt was an overplaying of Irving Berlin‘s “God Bless America” on the radio. Guthrie thought the lyrics were unrealistic and complacent.

Guthrie is primarily known today for his music. But despite growing up singing songs at home with his family, his first serious creative impulses were towards drawing and painting. Guthrie initially made his living as a professional sign painter, hitchhiking or riding freight trains from town to town plying his trade

Died of Huntington’s in 1967 at the age of 55.