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^ Read # Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie The guy behind the folk hero Ed Cray's new biography goes a long way toward clearing up some of the hagiographic fog that's collected around Guthrie since his long illness and death. The romantic picture of Guthrie is that he was an artistically restless drifter who threw in his lot with the farmers and laborers of the Depression era. There's some truth to that picture. Guthrie und. No Home in This World Anymore bensmomma Ed Cray's biography of Woody Guthrie gives us as complete a picture of the
| Title | : | Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393327361 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
The groundbreaking biography, available for the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth in July 2012. A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. 8 pages of illustrations. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody Guthrie Archive, has created a haunting portrait
From Publishers Weekly The biographer of Gen. Marshall (General of the Army) turns his prodigious skills to view another complex American hero with an equally complex story-folk singer and political activist Woody Guthrie. He carefully details how Guthrie moved from a fairly conventional career in country music to a recreation of his image through remarkable songs, like his "Dust Bowl Ballads,'' and gained a whole new Depression-era audience: "The Okies and Arkies, the Texicans and Jayhawkers, had become Woody's people." Cray also expertly observes how the "writerly discipline" of these works was missing in his p
The guy behind the folk hero Ed Cray's new biography goes a long way toward clearing up some of the hagiographic fog that's collected around Guthrie since his long illness and death. The romantic picture of Guthrie is that he was an artistically restless drifter who threw in his lot with the farmers and laborers of the Depression era. There's some truth to that picture. Guthrie und. No Home in This World Anymore bensmomma Ed Cray's biography of Woody Guthrie gives us as complete a picture of the folk-song legend as we are ever likely to get; he had the cooperation of all surviving members of the Guthrie family and full access to Guthrie's personal papers. Cray also does a marvelous job giving us a sense of Guthrie's work, liberally sprinkling his text with lyrics from fa. "A USEFUL, WELL WRITTEN BIOGRAPHY - Good Read" according to D. Blankenship. Mr. Cray does a nice job on this one indeed! Not only do we get a very well researched biography of a very interesting life, but we get a very good picture of the times he lived. We are now being flooded with works addressing this era of American History, rightfully so, and this work gives us another "slant," one we may find missing in other works. I mu
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