A long-held tenet of the Woody Guthrie story is that America’s greatest folk singer and songwriter turned pointedly political in his music after he moved to New York in 1940 and fell in with the left-leaning East Coast folk community. But several recently discovered recordings by the man widely regarded as the father of folk protest music, made while he was knocking around Los Angeles in the mid- to late 1930s -- well before he got to New York -- are helping to shift that view. The songs have surfaced for the first time on a new career-spanning three-CD box set that was released Tuesday by . The four tracks, among the highlights of a new set that includes 57 Guthrie tracks, 21 of which...
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