Our Band Could Be Your Band. How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

Our Band Could Be Your Band. How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

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Tomorrow would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (he was born July 14, 1912) and in tribute to an utterly singular American life, LIFE.com presents photographs from 1943 — none of which appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine — chronicling the guitar-strumming Oklahoma native’s rambles through wartime New York City.

See the photos on LIFE.com here.