Woody had three biographers, Joe Klein, a factual but not perceptive one, Ed Cray who actually knew Woody and wrote a great one, but "Woody, Cisco and Me" by Joe Longhi, a non-musician, gives the most detailed account as to who Woody really was.

There were some of us who knew Woody before he succumbed to Huntington's, singing and playing in tune and on pitch, with clarity and brevity. I had the honor of his calling me one of his pickin' buddies.

Most of his imitators copied the way he sang after he was disabled with his crippling disease.

Many of the autobios on folk singers are whitewashed and glamorized for the star-conscious public.

One guy, not a folksinger but a great musician, Dave Crosby wrote a good one called
"Long Time Coming" because he graphically portrayed the Sixties in an honest way.

I would like to see more of them being written in an honest way.