Here’s an interesting article about the same musician: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-21/why-woody-guthries-guitar-was-a-fascist-killer.html
Relevant paragraph:
Woody Guthrie’s guitar didn’t kill fascists because it fired bullets. It killed by neutralizing the fascists. Music, like culture, has the power to defeat right-wing extremists and their antidemocratic ideas rooted in xenophobia, racism, homophobia and sexism. Guthrie fought using ideas, language, music and the shared desire to build a better future together.
Is that real? I looked around the website and couldn’t find this text.
Yes.
It’s also quoted by Cory Doctorow at the end of his (Creative Commons licensed) podcasts…and Cory always checks his sources.
Wikipedia cites the book Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein as a source, but a bit via via. Seems legit though.