Woody Guthrie

Perhaps the lone salvation of human tragedy is that occasionally it finds its poet, the one
person who lends enduring meaning to suffering and rescues dignity from disaster. The
Dust Bowl crisis of the Thirties found its poet in Woody Guthrie, as the recently re-released
Library of Congress Recordings and Dust Bowl Ballads demonstrate with overwhelming
clarity. The Library of Congress Recordings are particularly remarkable. The thr... More >