Woody Guthrie and me : an intimate reminiscence / by Edward Robbin ; [with an introduction by Pete Seeger and a conversation with Will Geer].

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Forward by Pete Seeger -- A word from the author -- Nostalgia -- Salinas: fascism in America -- How I came to know Woody Guthrie -- Forum -- Dreiser -- Ackerman -- The Guthrie family descends on us -- Of love and latkes -- A recall election and a free lunch for Woody -- Bound for glory --Mary Guthrie -- La pena -- Woody and Will [conversation with Will Geer] -- Margorie Guthrie -- Huntington's Chorea -- Woody's death -- Legend -- A letter from Woody.

Woody Guthrie and Me is a warmhearted, humorous and sentimental reminiscence of a lifelong friendship between the author and America's greatest songwriter-troubadour, Woody Guthrie. When they first met in Los Angeles, back in 1938,, each of them has a radio show on station KFVD. Ed was a political commentator and writer for the People's World, while Woody was a hill-billy singer working in the fields and peddling his songs over the air for only a quarter. Ed introduced Woody to politics and are, and people of all sorts; then Woody moved his young family into the rundown bungalow next door, where he sat int he kitchen at his typewriter, pounding out his songs and working on his legendary autobiography BOUND FOR GLORY. The two men has many good times and hard times throughout the years, sharing experiences which provide us with revealing recollections and anecdotes of working together in the socialist movements, of Woody's wild adventures and reckless bouts of drinking, of tremendous creativity, voluminous artistic productivity, and the long, losing battle Woody fought with the disease Huntington's Chorea. [The book] also offers unique glimpses of Woody's encounters with will Geer, Cisco Houston, Theordore Drieser and John Steinbeck. But most of all this nostalgic memoir is an unprecedented portrait of the private, human side of Woody Guthrie -- as father, loover, friend and consummate artist.