Guthrie's lost album of 1949 resurfaces

December 08, 2007 Until an odd-looking package with reels of wires showed up unsolicited in the mail one day at the Woody Guthrie Archives. Captured on a wire recorder, the 75-minute recording was painstakingly transferred to compact disc, an effort that took more than a year. Except for some notable scratches here and there, the recording survived a half-century in Braverman's closet in surprisingly pristine shape.

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