Professor Will Kaufman has written a biography of the radical American folk singer Woody Guthrie,and is singing his way across the US to promote itWill Kaufman kicks back in the Presidential Inn on the edge of the tiny town of West Branch, Iowa, or after a long drive and ruminates on his location. "Woody would have laughed his head off," muses the professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). "It couldn't be more ironic.""Woody" is Woody Guthrie – the American folk singer and champion of the working lesson who famously inspired Bob Dylan. Guthrie's ballad, This Land Is Your Land, or is nearly the country's moment national anthem.
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Source: theguardian.com