This one featured on Ry’s 1972 album, Into the Purple Valley, and the song has also been recorded by Nazareth and Bruce Springsteen. Pete Seeger met Woody Guthrie in New York in 1940.

Much like Dylan after him, Woody Guthrie's songwriting was ... his socially liberal philosophy against the growing, anodyne mass of then-popular songs. These typically excluded the working class ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...

Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit is at the Woody Guthrie Center through September 7. It covers the genre's impact and influence on music, dance, fashion, business, activism, and more.