‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI

‘Archetypal punk rocker’ … Woody Guthrie. Photograph: Photograph by Al Aumuller. Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc

With mass deportations of migrants across America – not to mention reports of people being put in shackles or made to kneel and eat “like dogs” – Nora Guthrie is disappointed there hasn’t been more noise from musicians about the issue.

“I’ve been out protesting every weekend,” says the 75-year-old daughter of singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, and founder of the Woody Guthrie Archive. “And I’ve found myself asking, ‘Where are the songs for us to sing about this?’”