Woody Guthrie handwritten signed letter to Moe Asch regarding "Boogie at the Philharmonic." ...

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Woody Guthrie handwritten signed letter to Moe Asch regarding "Boogie at the Philharmonic." Woody Guthrie handwritten signed letter to Moe Asch regarding "Boogie at the Philharmonic." 1-page, 8.5 x 11 in., in ink, dated July 30, 1946, written to Moses "Moe" Asch, founder of Asch Records which later became Folkways Records, the label instrumental in bringing folk music into the American cultural mainstream. Paper is very thin; exhibits chipping on edges. The letter reads, in full: "I'm listening to your album, 'Boogie at the Philharmonic'. Cathy is asleep with the bed full of clay, dolls, and stuff of all kind. Marjorie is at the movie house. And Mead Lux Louis is taking me on back down across the country to a place I've been before. I'm listening to some of the best Boogie beating I ever heard before. Really ace high. I only wish I had a player that would play a dozen of Mead Lux's pieces without me ever leaving to jump up and change every record. Mead's hand walks and talks on that keyboard. His boogie has hit me harder than any I've heard so far. If somebody can beat him I've just not heard them. You got a good studio tone in your records here. Only four songs, though. I would like an even dozen. He's as good at Boogie as the Gospel Keys are at $pirituals. He's the top, the tar roof, the brush arbor, the cedar grove king. He's the Leadbelly of that piano. I like your 'Fast Boog' best of all. It seems to stand up and come off better. Easier for me to hear. We need more. Woody Guthrie."

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