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Woody Guthrie
January 31, 2016
Jeet Heer
Folk music is Bernie Sanders’s secret Achilles’ heel.
January 21, 2016
Jeet Heer
Woody Guthrie wrote some moving lyrics about Donald Trump’s racist dad.
October 23, 2012
David Hajdu
Where Woody Guthrie's Anti-Commercial Legacy has Lived On
March 12, 2012
David Hajdu
Bob Dylan, Grimes, and Girl Groups Reconsidered
November 4, 2011
David Hajdu
Roy Rogers, Revolutionary?
August 20, 2010
David Hajdu
The Ballads of Steven Slater
March 13, 2010
Christopher Benfey
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
January 18, 2010
Christopher Benfey
The Hunger Artists
March 12, 2008
David Hajdu
High Hopes

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