Bonneville Power Administration Hires Singer Woody Guthrie

Trivia
on April 15, 2001

In the 1940s, the Bonneville Power Administration paid folk singer Woody Guthrie $270 to write songs for a movie it produced to encourage rural residents to electrify their homes. One of those songs, Roll On, Columbia, Roll On, was adopted as the official state folk song in 1987.

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