We watch television through the Astra 2 satellites and they give us some strange additional programmes I wouldn't usually see. There is one called "Contraversial " which seems to have a communist slant and at 5 yesterday I stumbled across a wonderful programme marking an important centenary I'd missed earlier this year. Woodie Guthrie was born on 14/07/1912.
He influenced Pete Seeger and the Weavers thus promoting the whole folk revival of my teens, and Beloved's hero, Bob Dylan, as well as Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, The Manic Street Preachers and Sweetheart's favourites, Frank Turner and Al Baker.
Here's to you Woody. So long, it's been good to know you.
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