from Robert Cantwell
essay "Fanfare for the little guy"
in Hard Travelin' : The life and legacy of
Woody Guthrie [1999 published
anthology of essays, Rock 'n Roll
Hall of Fame / Univ. Press of New England ]
"AMERICAN MUSIC MASTERS" series
We celebrate Woody Guthrie for
his political conviction and his
poetic genius. . .Woody was a skinny
little feather-boned guy with a
head of springy black hair, a high-
sloping intelligent brow, sharp-
hooded, sometimes heavy-lidded
scrutinizing eyes, a nose and mouth
coldly faceted as if by a smith's
hammer and yet, in the pronounced
bow of his upper lip, touched with
sensuality. He was in a sense homely,
and in another beautiful. His hands,
moreover, his lifelong, guitar-picking
notwithstanding, were plump, languidly
relaxed, possibly lovely.
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