 |
 |
|
|
"Woody Guthrie was, is, America’s balladeer. During the epoch of our deepest despair, the Great Depression, his were the songs that lifted the lowly spirits of the ‘ordinary,’ the Woody Guthrie, writer, singer, and political activist, is perhaps the single most important figure to have influenced the tradition of American folk music. His music honored and heartened the Read an Excerpt Reviews "Something about Woody Guthrie seems to attract interesting, unexpected biographers… But all these surprising Guthrie chroniclers have nothing on Ed Cray." "Offers a much-needed corrective to the romanticized, too-familiar Guthrie"
"More than a dozen writers have tried to chronicle the vagabond life of Woody Guthrie, but none brought him alive quite like Ed Cray, not even Guthrie himself." Return to Ramblin' Man Links
About the Author Ed Cray is the author of biographies of General George C. Marshall and Chief Justice Earl Warren. A professor of journalism at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Monica with his wife. Return to Ramblin' Man Links
|
 |
