Hippie? I dunno. Had a wife and 3 kids, didn't do drugs, and a regular job.
Kept clean, too, for a working man.
Guthrie abandoned his wife and family in CA and shacked up with his mistress in NYC. He had a drinking problem and was often unemployed. He boasted of his Communist sympathies and he was an anti-war pacifist until Hitler crossed Stalin, then all of a sudden he was "anti-fascist."
The Woody Guthrie you describe bears no resemblance to the actual article.