Iconic folk singer Woody Guthrie is celebrated by the Morgan Library & Museum

Musicians from Bob Dylan to Public Enemy’s Chuck D have sung the praises of Woody Guthrie; Philip Palmer, who curated the new exhibit "Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song" at the Morgan Library & Museum, says that “the musician/activist tradition really starts with Woody Guthrie.” But Guthrie was also full of surprises: a fine illustrator, a prodigious writer, a prolific family man, and – despite his reputation as a “Dustbowl Balladeer” – an artist with a close connection to New York. WNYC’s John Schaefer speaks to Palmer and to Deana McCloud of the Woody Guthrie Center about an exhibit that shows why Woody Guthrie still looms large on the American cultural scene, 55 years after his death.