Woody Wilson Guthrie first tried to make it in the singing business in Texas. He formed a trio that sang old folk songs, but this was not successful because it was in a time of the great depression, and money was of course was tight. With this stunt at being a performer not working Woody set out for California. This is where he developed his style of being on the rood all of the time. He hitch-hiked, rode freight-trains, and even walked to California. .
Once in California it was not everything that Woody had hoped it to be because they were rejecting the outsiders. So, he worked his way into mainstream through the political system, and eventually started writing songs. The type of songs that he wrote were songs that put down top officials and were song that were very controversial. So after he accomplished what he set out to do in California, by singing songs in a town that didn't like him at first, he moved east to NYC.
In New York he was embraced and loved because he was the most authentic singer that city had seen so far. He was so controversial. This was in the 1940s and he was performing folk songs, some would consider this the start of Jazz folk. At this same time he was performing with the Almanac Singers this was a group that was a radical group in NYC. This group would later be called the Weavers. This group helped establish folk music as viable commercial entity within the popular music industry.
After NYC he went on down the road to bigger and better things he thought. He was tired of what he called sissified shit that they had to censor all of his songs and finally he got fed up with it and left. In his words "I got disgusted with the whole sissified and nervous rules of censorship on all my songs and ballads, and drove off down the road across the southern states again." During this time going to the Southern states he met his next wife and a turning point in his life.
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