this is a partial rec because I'm only about halfway through it right now but there's something special about an autobiography that reads like such a well formed piece of fiction. Woody Guthrie has always been a character of myth in Americana and he seems to even understand this while writing his own life's story. Living through tornado tragedy and skipping town to town, traveling the country by train, it all seems larger-than-life and very well could be embellished, but that doesn't take away from the story he's trying to tell about American life. It's easy to see him as a Paul Bunyan-type folklore hero, killing fascists with his guitar and riding the rails to discover America.
