Editing Woody Guthrie (section)

===Post-war: Mermaid Avenue===
[[File:10 of the Woody Guthrie songs - contact details.png|alt=|thumb|This page from a collection of Guthrie's sheet music published in 1946 includes his Mermaid Avenue address and one of his [[anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] slogans]]
The years immediately after the war when he lived on Mermaid Avenue were among Guthrie's most productive as a writer. His extensive writings from this time were archived and maintained by Marjorie and later his estate, mostly handled by his daughter Nora. Several of the manuscripts also contain writing by a young Arlo and the other Guthrie children.<ref>{{cite web|last=WoodyGuthrie.org |title=Woody Guthrie Archives |url=http://www.woodyguthrie.org/archives/archivesindex.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713144650/http://www.woodyguthrie.org/archives/archivesindex.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2006 |access-date=April 10, 2007 }}</ref>

During this time [[Ramblin' Jack Elliott]] studied extensively under Guthrie, visiting his home and observing how he wrote<!--wrote music or words?--> and performed. Elliott, like [[Bob Dylan]] later, idolized Guthrie. He was inspired by the singer's idiomatic performance style and repertoire. Because of the decline caused by Guthrie's progressive [[Huntington's disease]], Arlo Guthrie and Bob Dylan both later said that they had learned much of Guthrie's performance style from Elliott. When asked about this, Elliott said, "I was flattered. Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody. Woody didn't teach me. He just said, If you want to learn something, just steal it—that's the way I learned from [[Lead Belly]]."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3495000026.html|title=Elliott, Ramblin' Jack|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com (quote from a 1984 [[Esquire magazine]] interview with Randy Sue Coburn)|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>