Pete Seeger plays his banjo and narrates the story. Featuring rare performance footage of Woody Guthrie.

From Youtube: American folk music encompasses many genres; many are known as roots music. Roots music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. The music is considered American either because it is native to the United States or because it developed there, out of foreign origins, to such a degree that it struck musicologists as something distinctly new. It is considered "roots music" because it served as the basis of music later developed in the United States, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz. //via thefilmachive.blogspot.com



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