Woody Guthrie Musical content Woody Guthrie lengthy ALS discusses the production on American Document Number One with Moe Ashe. The album never came to fruition. Wonderful Woody Guthrie ALS reads, "Dear Moe, Marion, Herb, Harris, Pop and Union Square in general, I know how it is to have north wind blow cold and pile snow in under your door. I never had a door that didn't leak snow. The air strip here is on the north from up where the wind is born and it hits my barracks and my bed first of all the other ones down here. Marjorie says she has dropped in on you a few times. I'm glad, she said that she got a look at the cover of American Document # One. She said that she likes it. I thought I would get a two week furlough before I get sent on to my next job for the army. Instead I'm getting out on account of so many wives and kids. Some time around December. (then I can hit you up for work. I'll be a real genuine legal World War Two veteran.) Today I'm in 5 months. Gosh. Don't seem that long ago does it? I've not let my spring run down any since I'm here. I didn't do any professed appearances, but played plenty in the barracks and met a well needed rest. the little vacation has sobered and pepped me up considerable and caused my guitar to play better. I've turned out to date (12) twelve more personal experience ballads taken from the most hottest spots in the war. Two or three I am pretty sure you will like, and several you will back over in the corner to shy away from. I am going down to some studio here in Saint Louis and record some samples to send out to Earl Robinson to use Oct. 30th in his festival for the musicians Congress. (Hollywood). Earl is doing some movie about California History. His wife Helen lost a baby through a miscarriage. A bad thing to happen. What will the number of my ballads be by the time I get back I do not know. The stories are all factual war experiences and I worked from papers and magazines. You may remember the the lady Doctor Betty that had eight brothers and sisters all doctors and a deathbed request from their old father, a coal company doctor, "Don't ever let these coal town people down,"well the tale you'll hear soon enough. no use to go into it here. I'm the official sign painter here for squadron L, yes, after so many hard weeks to get to be a teletype operator, I turn out to be a sign writer. But I like to try to write signs of the times. My brother six years in the Navy, George, is a sign painter and all around painter. So if you got any painting you need done just call us Guthrie boys. I just wrote you this note to see if you're still alive. To wish you the best of luck in your ventures into the grass roots of folks songs and folk lore. Woody Guthrie." Price: USD 7,500.00 other currencies   order no. 33309-001    inquire

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