English, 23.10.2020 15:20 aleikebanks

Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me. Promoters and club owners wanted him to follow their tightly written scripts and sing the melodious, popular songs that were on the radio. Whenever they came at him with their hands full of cash, Woody ran the other way. “I had rather sound like the cab drivers cursing at one another, like the longshoremen yelling, like the cowhands whooping and like the lone wolf barking, than to sound like a slick, smooth tongued, oily lipped, show person.”

This excerpt demonstrates that Woody Guthrie used his life experiences to create music about the

lives of everyday people.
beauty of the natural world.
lack of compassion in the country.
most popular ideas of the time period.

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