Full name: Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

Author: Ed Cray Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Music, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393327366 0393327361

A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his mother. At forty-two, he was cruelly silenced by Huntington's disease. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody Guthrie Archive, has created a haunting portrait of an American who profoundly influenced Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American popular music itself. Similar books: Woody Guthrie by Joe Klein Frank by James Kaplan Divided Soul by David Ritz Transformer by Victor Bockris Chief Justice by Ed Cray Shakey by Jimmy McDonough Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries Glenn Gould by Otto Friedrich I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons Wondrous Strange by Kevin Bazzana Lowside of the Road by Barney Hoskyns Mozart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer Jim Morrison by Stephen Davis Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross Zappa by Barry Miles Hardcore Troubadour by Lauren St. John General of the Army by Ed Cray The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake The Beatles by Bob Spitz