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Mine too. I grew up in the type of family where we had Richard Nixon yard signs and my father called his best blue pinstripe suit his President Nixon suit. But for some reason the old fold-up record player we had in the house was stocked with old folk albums from Tennesee Ernie Ford to Woodie Guthrie. Was it Joan Baez who sang The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down? I used to play them all and sign along. It was a long time before I understood that 16 Tons was a union organizing song. It was still longer before I fully understood what it meant to be another day older and deeper in debt. I still know the words to most of those old folksies.

For what it's worth, I long ago reconciled my political beliefs with the Woodie Guthrie era of folk. I decided they were all conservatives, they just didn't know it. All those depression era songs are about the little guy trying to get free from the man, trying to make a living without having someone with more power taking it away from him. What can be more conservaitve than that?

OK, back on topic. So you say that Woodie Guthrie made vans? Wow. Are you sure it wasn't Arlo you're thinking about?