Big error:Via Wikipedia:""Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river’s federal hydroelectric facilities."NOT the WPA. The BPA may be a Federal agency (and still exists under the aegis of the Department of Energy), but was not a WPA formation.
Big error:Via Wikipedia:""Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river’s federal hydroelectric facilities."NOT the WPA. The BPA may be a Federal agency (and still exists under the aegis of the Department of Energy), but was not a WPA formation.
Yeah, so call it an “artificial folk song.”