Ron Radosh, a former New Left radical who converted to conservatism decades ago, on some aspects of Woody Guthrie's life that are coming to light as we approach the Dust Bowl troubadour's 100th birth anniversary. Specifically, some new substantiation of Guthrie's communist ideology.
Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax - all Communists.
One fact I didn't see in Radosh's piece, but that I knew from my research as a popular music historian, was that Guthrie wrote a column for the Daily Worker in the late 30s called "Woody Sez."
One interesting new bit of information I did get from the piece, though, was that Radosh took banjo lessons from Pete Seeger in the 1950s.
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