Whoopsy!

Dropped a paragraph, or three, in there somewhere. Yup, so far it's:

Guthrie, Woody, Bound for Glory, (New York: E.P. Dutton)(as cited in Kaufman.)
Klein, Joe, Woody Guthrie: A Life, (New York: Knopf, 1980)
Cray, Ed, Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie , (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006)
Kaufman, Will, Woody Guthrie: American Radical , (Springfield: U. of Illinois, 2015)

And yes, my thread title sucked. The new one was never on the list; seems a wee bit appropriative as-is.

“Folklore” because that's what the (auto)biographies read like to someone not sharing Woody Guthrie's, and by extension his biographers', politics. Kennett was a real place and Hal Horton a real person. They aren't 'based on a true story.'

“A Place of Celebration and Pain” - I couldn't improve on given the who, what, when, where and why at hand.