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Woody Guthrie

Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited...', 2004

ON APRIL 16, 1944, a slight, wiry-haired man with a guitar and harmonica wandered into Moe Asch's little recording studio on West 46 Street off New York's Times Square. His sidekick, who played guitar and sang cowboy harmonies, joined him.

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