Bound for Glory Author:Woody Guthrie "Bound for Glory" is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from... more » the top downwards.« less
Great, personal story of WG's life traveling on the railroad, growing up in the oil boom and the subsequent dust booms of Oklahoma. Last third of the book is about how he got into singing.