Woody Guthrie

“There are other Woody Guthrie biographies, but this is written incredibly persuasively. Joe Klein is a very good storyteller…This book also became part of the history of protest songs itself. Bruce Springsteen got hold of a copy, and that really turned him onto the history of Woody Guthrie and made him want to deal more with politics and the idea of America in his own works…the book is just a really thrilling narrative, which made me realise how you could put political background into a personal story without it seeming like a big indigestible chunk.” Read more...

The best books on Protest Songs

Dorian Lynskey, Musicians, Music Critics & Scholar