Woody guthrie huntington disease
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How Bob Dylan honored Woody Guthrie, who had Huntington’s
Some of my closest friends are musicians who love the work of Bob Dylan.
Woody guthrie huntington disease
During a recent conversation, Dylan’s visit with ailing singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie came up.
My friends hadn’t realized that Guthrie had Huntington’s disease — which they knew as the same disease that’s affected several generations of my family.
(I recently tested negative for Huntington’s, thankfully.)
As a young man, Dylan read Guthrie’s 1943 autobiography, “Bound for Glory.” The older singer behind “This Land Is Your Land” was born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, and grew up to become Dylan’s idol and inspiration.
In 1961, the two met and bonded, cementing their friendship.
By the late 1940s, Guthrie had begun to display signs of Huntington’s disease, which he’d inherited from his mother. By the 1950s, Guthrie’s health had deteriorated to the point where he was placed in a psyc