I've been told that when he heard Woody Guthrie sing Tom Joad, Ernest Hemingway said, "If I had heard the song first, I wouldn't have needed to write the book."

Last week in Dublin, Andy Irvine performed his one man show about Woody Guthrie. It marked Woody's death 40 years ago and the proceeds went towards research into Huntington's Disease (previously known as Huntington's Chorea).