Oklahoma

I think another reason his reputation hasn't been quite what it should be in his home state was the association of his music with the Dust Bowl era and the Okie stereotype that the state saw as a putdown during the 30s and for some time after.

Whatever the reasons, I'm happy to hear his archive is coming home. I still remember my first trip to Okemah (for the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival) and how I wished, at the time, that his house was still standing. I had an older friend, a musician and a stout lefty, who told me about how he and his friends used to make pilgrimages to it on occasion, hanging out in the ruins and playing music until the cops would chase them off.