We welcome any suggestions, contributions, or questions. Woody, who always was a macho sort and never much for physical contact, seemed to lift his head up in order to be kissed. Lee Hays recalled Cisco walking in, riddled with cancer, and seeing Woody there, shaking so badly (from Huntington's Chorea) that Woody could hardly hold on to his seat. In addition to Primary Colors, his previous books include Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam and Woody Guthrie: A Life. On an afternoon in February, 1961, Woody's friends gathered to play some music for him. Joe Klein, a journalist for nearly three decades, is a political correspondent for Time magazine. He kept performing until almost the very end. Shortly after arriving back in New York (in 1960) Cisco learned he was going to die from stomach cancer.

Later in the book: Cisco was not only 'a genuinely sweet man, but a very brave one. It was the beginning of a long, if rather sporadic, collaboration, and probably the closest friendship of Woody's life.' Guthrie inspired Bob Dylan and virtually created the modern folk tradition and singer-songwriter genre, and his music remains as vital today as when he was performing.Born in Oklahoma in 1912. Woody asked Cisco to come up for a few duets each set. He was still working there when Woody opened for a week in early September, 1940 at a well-known midtown club. Woody found him to be a loyal friend, intelligent, kind, calm and caring.Will Geer landed Cisco his first job in New York City as a doorman, wearing a big fancy uniform with a cap and epaulets, at a burlesque house on 42nd Street. Cisco Houston.'was a tall, quiet man with dark, classic features and a degree of sensitivity that would have been rare in any case, but was particularly striking in someone so handsome.he'd spent nearly all his life with his working class family near Pasadena.

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