The music of Woody Guthrie is something that somebody introduces to you, or you to, enthusiastically. For me, it was my brother, who watched a documentary in the late ‘90s about the US folk singer, and the quest of his daughter, Nora, to reinfuse his lyrics with music, for the first time in 40 years. Guthrie had no formal musical training, and when he d…
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