life: Did you know? — On this day in 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote one of his best known folk songs, “This Land is Your Land.” Pictured: Woody Guthrie entertains commuters, 1943. “There’s a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days — and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shapes in my mind.” (see more here)

life:

Did you know? — On this day in 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote one of his best known folk songs, “This Land is Your Land.”

Pictured: Woody Guthrie entertains commuters, 1943. “There’s a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days — and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shapes in my mind.”

(see more here)