American Masters . Woody Guthrie . Additional Footage

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		"You can't tell anybody anything... you can only show people." (1:52) Bruce Springsteen discusses what Woody Guthrie taught him as a songwriter.				"Old tunes with new words" (1:34) Pete Seeger discusses the process of writing folk music.

		"All you have is your signature" (1:56) Nora Guthrie discusses her father's means of expressing himself.				"I watched you... I learned from you" (1:43) Nora Guthrie discusses Woody as a father, and how fatherhood affected his work.

		"Woody was on his own" (1:29) Joe Klein discusses the tragedy in Woody's early life, and how it affected him as an artist.				"A search for family" (2:44) Joe Klein on Woody's desire for community, and his identification with the dust bowl migrants.

		"Charley's gift" (1:09) Ed Cray on the optimism that Charley Guthrie imbued in his son.				"He wanted to write the great sentence" (1:22) Bess Hawes discuses Woody's motivations as a writer.

		The Talking Blues (:55) Jeff Place on an obscure musical genre that suited Woody's music well.