I figured somebody else'd mention it, but I don't see anything on a quick search, so I just wanted to say happy birthday to a great American and the spiritual father to every hard-scrabbling, hard-scribbling progressive political songwriter out there.

Born this day in 19 and 12 in Okemah, Oklahoma, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was a tireless singer, songwriter, organizer and wanderer who gave this country some of its proudest (and most controversial) music, including the song that at least 4% of us tell pollsters we'd prefer as our national anthem:

