He can be used, because he was interviewing people and was able to share their original stories.
Explanation:
Woody Wilson Guthrie was an icon of American folk music.
He is the author of over three thousand songs, including the informal US anthem "This Land Is Your Land".
He is considered the spiritual father of Bob Dylan, and he has decisively influenced hundreds of other musicians prone to troubadour, rebellious poetry and music. Among them are Bruce Springsteen, Joe Stramer...
Visiting America in the first half of the twentieth century, mostly on foot, he came from an orphanage, convinced by a leftist and a communist, he raised the morale of that same poor man by singing under the slogan "This machine kills fascists" written on his guitar.
In 1943, Gatri published the author's book, Bound For Glory. Posthumously, in 1976, the novel Seeds of Man was published. He is crowned with many accolades, post-mortem.