I'm sending a birthday shout-out to American troubadour, political agitator, restless spirit, and mandolin picker, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie.
This rare photo of Woody playing mandolin with Ralph Rinzler, the great scholar and promoter of American music, comes from the blog of Mike Murphy. He says that it's probably Rinzler's mandolin, and that he was visiting Woody in the hospital where he lived once the symptoms of Huntington's disease became too much to handle outside.
And I'll add this link to the story that I produced for NPR's All Things Considered in case any of my friends at the Cafe missed it last night.
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