Woody Guthrie

'til we outnumber 'em - The Songs of Woody Guthrie



More than 30 years ago, shortly after the death of Woody Guthrie in the fall of 1967, a number of folk heavies like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger assembled in Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to the folk patriarch. That Tribute to Woody Guthrie serves as something of a precursor to this 2000 record spearheaded by Ani DiFranco, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Guthrie Archives. It is a testimony to the incredible staying power of Guthrie's songs and his legacy that successive generations of musicians continue to be touched by what DiFranco calls his "rail-riding, rambling, story-gathering, political, acoustic-balladeer model." Like the first tribute, this one includes readings of Guthrie's prose along with interpretations of his music, but it also adds personal reflections from Fred Hellerman and Arlo Guthrie, among others. Highlights from this 1996 gathering include a pair of Bruce Springsteen performances (the playful "Riding in My Car" and the solemn "Deportee"), David Pirner's urgent "Pretty Boy Floyd," and "Ramblin' Round," invested with the right amount of weariness by the Indigo Girls with DiFranco. Also of note is DiFranco's dramatic reworking of "Do Re Mi," which highlights the song's often overlooked dark theme, and Billy Bragg's "Against the Law," which reappears on Mermaid Avenue Volume II, a second set of Guthrie lyrics set to Bragg's music. It's telling that Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, two participants from the first tribute, return here, and it's more than likely that many of these artists will appear on the future Guthrie celebrations that surely are to come. --Marc Greilsamer

Artist...............: Various Artists
Album................: 'til we outnumber 'em - the songs of woody guthrie
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01. (00:03:31) All Severance Hall Cast - Hard Travelin' Hootenanny
02. (00:00:50) Peter Glazer - Payback
03. (00:05:22) ramblin' jack elliott - 1913 masacre
04. (00:00:40) Arlo Guthrie - Regular Fires
05. (00:02:40) Billy Bragg - Against the Law
06. (00:01:56) Bruce Springstein - Riding in My Car
07. (00:02:42) David Pirner - Pretty Boy Floyd
08. (00:00:37) Arlo Guthrie - Free in Every Moment
09. (00:03:48) Ani DiFranco - Do Re Mi
10. (00:01:51) Fred Hellerman - What a Song is
11. (00:03:33) Arlo Guthrie - Dust Storm Disaster
12. (00:00:34) Craig Werner - It Ain't About Bein' Perfect
13. (00:03:07) bruce springstein - plan wreck at los gatos (deportee)
14. (00:00:18) Country Joe McDonald - Does Music Change the World?
15. (00:03:18) Indigo Girls with Ani DiFranco - Ramblin' Round
16. (00:00:23) Arlo Guthrie - Change the Moment
17. (00:00:50) Tim Robbins - Born Naked
18. (00:02:34) Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Talking Dust Bowl
19. (00:02:40) all severence hall cast - 'til we outnumber 'em

Playing Time.........: 00:41:14
Total Size...........: 217.73 MB




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Woody Guthrie - My Dusty Road

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There are umpteen collections of the music of legendary folkie storyteller, agitator and Dylan role model Woody Guthrie, and almost all of them sound like they were recorded in a refrigerator box. But this one qualifies as genuine news. The back story is a crate-digger's wet dream: cardboard drums filled with pristine 78-rpm metal masters, given up for lost long ago, were found in the basement storage bin of a Brooklyn apartment belonging to an Italian lady who inherited them from the daughter-in-law of a business partner of Folkways Records guru Moses Asch.

The 54 songs on My Dusty Road, most of them familiar, are part of roughly 250 tracks — many featuring second guitarist Cisco Houston and harmonica man Sonny Terry — recorded over a six-day marathon in New York in 1944, during the thick of World War II. The sound quality is astonishing. On songs such as "This Land Is Your Land," "Stackolee" and "Pretty Boy Floyd," fingerpicked melodic fills emerge from surface noise, vocals step up to shake your hand. It's the sound of Guthrie as a man, not a ghost. In addition to extravagant packaging (four discs and a couple of archival postcard repros in a hobo-style cardboard valise), there are a half-dozen unreleased tracks. The most impressive are "Tear the Fascists Down," a no-shit bit of wartime cheerleading, and "Bad Repetation" [sic], a nudge-winker about romantic problems — one of the occupational hazards for a trouble-courting troubadour never afraid to sing exactly what was on his mind


Is there such a thing as required listening in popular music? And is it possible that the music of a man who single handedly changed the course of pop culture with his songs can come alive again with a clarity and sound that feels like it was recorded TODAY? One cannot say enough about Woody Guthrie and his position in the world of great American music. I intend to invite my friend Bobby D over to review some of these songs for that there radio show he does. And then there's my seven year old son, a railroad song fanatic beyond reproach. He needs a track or two. Folkies? Welcome. Country? Thank you. Alt. ditto. A great man named Gram Parsons once set out on a quest to build on the tradition of Cosmic American Music. The songs and voice of Woody, especially as witnessed on this (slightly too preciously packaged but what the heck) boxed set is a key ingredient to that journey.


Disc One: Woody’s “Greatest” Hits
Disc 1 (Rounder)

All the songs on these four discs were recorded on April 16, 19, 20, 24, and 25, 1944, plus an unreported later date that month, in the cramped New York City studio of Asch Records. Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston were between merchant marine voyages; their friend, blind Sonny Terry, was living on a meager Social Security check and what he could pick up playing harmonica around town. Over those five days, they recorded approximately 250 tracks, some songs with multiple takes. Those discs were apparently divided equally between partners Moe Asch and Herbert Harris, when they dissolved the company. Asch would make extensive use of his 125 tracks when he launched Folkways Records. Harris later issued a handful of his cache on his Stinson label.


TrackList:

01. This Land is Your Land
02. I Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way
03. Talking Sailor
04. Philadelphia Lawyer
05. Hard Travelin’
06. Jesus Christ
07. The Sinking of the Reuben James
08. Pretty Boy Floyd
09. Grand Coulee Dam
10. Nine Hundred Miles
11. I Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way
12. My Daddy
13. Bad Repetation

Disc Two: Woody’s Roots
Disc 2 (Rounder)

In the face of so many, many songs and ballads Guthrie wrote – estimates range from 1200 to 1500 and higher – it is easy to forget that he was also a folk singer, that he learned traditional songs aurally most of his life. Steeped in the so-called “roots music” of the Southwest, Guthrie infused those qualities in much of what he wrote later, and thus assured the success of songs such as those on Disc I.

Guthrie learned some songs and stories from his mother, from Uncle Jeff Guthrie, from his father who regularly sang in the church choir, from the man who shined shoes at Jigg’s barbershop in Pampa. Later he picked up fiddle tunes from his best friend, Matt Jennings, and from the pickup square dance bands he played with around Pampa and Amarillo, Texas. He learned songs from 78 rpm records and over the radio, many of them traditional songs reworked, if at all, to secure a copyright, songs by the Carter Family, by Vernon Dalhart, by Fiddlin’ John Carson, and half a hundred others. He learned songs from traveling medicine shows and touring country bands. All of these he fused in a style uniquely his own. As a youngster in Okemah, Oklahoma, a young man in Pampa, Texas, even as an adult playing with his good friend Huddie Ledbetter in New York City or listening to Library of Congress field records at Alan Lomax’s insistence in Washington, Guthrie absorbed an uniquely American tradition.


TrackList:

01. Poor Boy
02. Worried Man Blues
03. A Picture From Life’s Other Side
04. Buffalo Skinners
05. Hard Ain’t It Hard
06. Stewball
07. Stackolee
08. Gypsy Davy
09. Little Darling Pal of Mine
10. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
11. Chisholm Trail
12. Put My Little Shoes Away
13. Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone?
14. John Henry

Disc Three: Woody the Agitator
Disc 3 (Rounder)

In New York City, Guthrie fell in, or was snatched up by The Almanac Singers, an ever-shifting amalgamation of pro-Union, anti-Jim Crow singers. The central figures were a lanky five-string banjo player, Pete Seeger; a portly, folksy Arkansan who sang bass, Lee Hays; and Millard Lampell, a facile and clever songwriter who tended to sing the melody line. For the last ten years, they had seen “oppressed people and therefore oppressors,” as Hays argued; now they lifted their voices in protest and defiance.


TrackList:

01. I’m Gonna Join That One Big Union
02. Hangknot, Slipknot
03. Gonna Roll the Union On
04. The Ludlow Massacre
05. Sally Don’t You Grieve
06. Harriet Tubman’s Ballad, part 1
07. Harriet Tubman’s Ballad, part 2
08. Tear the Fascists Down**
09. When The Yanks Go Marching In
10. You Can Hear My Whistle Blow
11. Union Burying Ground
12. You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union

Disc Four: Woody, Cisco and Sonny Jam the Blues, Hollers, and Dances
Disc 4 (Rounder)

After their second voyage in the merchant marine, Guthrie persuaded Moses Asch to record as many songs as he could get down on the scarce aluminum masters. Asch was taking a big gamble based on a hunch; Guthrie was important as a songwriter, and Guthrie would sell enough records to make the gamble worthwhile.

Guthrie, being Guthrie, offhandedly invited his shipmate, Gilbert “Cisco” Houston, and Sanders “Blind Sonny” Terry to join him in what would be an impromptu jam session in the Asch studio during the last weeks of April, 1944. On many tracks, Terry, a true virtuoso on the harmonica, shone brightly. As Guthrie later wrote:

Sonny Terry blew and whipped, beat, fanned and petted his harmonica, cooed to it like a weed hill turtle dove, cried to it like some worried woman come to ease his worried mind…. He put the tobacco sheds of North and South Carolina in it and all of the blistered and hurt and hardened hands cheated and left empty, hurt and left crying, robbed and left hungry, pilfered and left starving, beaten and left dreaming. He rolled down the trains that the colored cannot drive, only clean and wash down. He blew into the wood holes and the brassy reeds the tale and the wails of Lost John running away from the dogs of the chain gang guards, and the chain gang is the landlord that is never around anywhere. (American Folksong [New York: Oak Publications, 1961], p. 7.)


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01. Train Breakdown
02. Do You Ever Think Of Me? (aka At My Window)
03. Guitar Rag
04. Square Dance Medley (Cripple Creek, Buffalo Gals, Old Joe Clark, Red Wing, Ida Red, Chilly Winds, Sandy Land)
05. Guitar Breakdown
06. Raincrow Bill
07. Ain’t Nobody’s Business
08. Stepstone
09. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
10. Bile Them Cabbage Down
11. Danville Girl
12. Guitar Blues
13. Brown’s Ferry Blues
14. More Pretty Girls Than One
15. Sonny’s Flight




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Woody Guthrie - House Of The Rising Sun

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01 - House of the Rising Sun
02 - Buffalo Skinners
03 - John Henry
04 - Gypsy Davy
05 - Worried Man Blues
06 - More Pretty Girls Than One
07 - Ain'T Gonna Be Treated That Way
08 - Rangers Command
09 - Poor Boy
10 - Lonesome Day
11 - Pretty Boy Floyd
12 - Hard Ain't It Hard
13 - Stackolee
14 - Cumberland Gap
15 - Old Time Religion
16 - Sourwood Mountain
17 - Long John
18 - Lost John
19 - Columbus Stockade
20 - Bury Me Beneath The Willow
21 - Chain Gang Special
22 - Ezekiel Saw The Wheel




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Woody Guthrie - Troubadour

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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton have acknowledged their debt to Guthrie as an influence.
Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour". Throughout his life Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, though he was never an actual member of any.
Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including American folk musician Arlo Guthrie. He is the grandfather of musician Sarah Lee Guthrie. Guthrie died from complications of Huntington's disease, a progressive genetic neurological disorder. During his later years, in spite of his illness, Guthrie served as a figurehead in the folk movement, providing inspiration to a generation of new folk musicians, including mentor relationships with Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan.

Woody Guthrie was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 1997.


TrackList:

DISC 1

01. Pastures of plenty
02. This land is your land
03. House of the rising sun
04. Hard ain't it hard
05. I ride an old paint
06. Blow the man down
07. John Henry
08. Hard travellin'
09. Car song
10. Talking dust bowl blues
11. Do Re Mi
12. Gypsy Davy
13. Vigilante man
14. Pretty boy Floyd
15. Buffalo gals (with Cisco Houston)
16. Mule skinner blues
17. Wreck of the old 97
18. Orgeon Trail
19. Jack-hammer blues (with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry)
20. Better world-A-comin'
21. I ain't got no home
22. Blowin' down this road feeling bad
23. Dust pneumonia blues
24. The biggest thing man has ever done
25. We shall be free (with Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry and Leadbelly)


DISC 2

01. Stagolee
02. Medley
(a) Little Sack of Sugar
(b) Ship in the Sky
(c) Swin, Swim, Swimmy I Swim

03. Talking fishing blues
04. There's a better world a comin'
05. The great dust storm
06. Dust can't kill me
07. Dust bowl refugee
08. Dust bowl blues
09. Philadelphia lawyer
10. Tom Joad (part one)
11. Billy the kid
12. Poor boy
13. Baltimore to Washington
14. Sourwood mountain
15. Dig my life away
16. A picture from life's other side
17. Mean talking blues
18. Chain Gang Special


DISC 3

01. Sinking of the Reuben James
02. Sally don't you grieve (with Cisco Houston)
03. Talking Sailor
04. Two good men
05. Grand Coulee Dam
06. Crisholm trail
07. Ranger's command
08. Jesse James
09. Dead or alive
10. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get along little doggies
11. 1913 Massacre
12. Jesus Christ
13. When that great ship went down (with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry)
14. Cumberland gap
15. Ramblin' round your city
16. New York Town (with Cisco Houston)
17. Tom Joad (part two)
18. When the curfew blows
19. Jarama Valley
20. New Found land
21. Slipknot
22. Talking Columbia
23. Bury me beneath the willow (with Cisco Houston)
24. Ship in the sky
25. So long it's been good to know you





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Woody Guthrie - Songs to Grow on For Mother and Child

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01 - Grassy Grass Grass (Grow, Grow, Grow)
02 - Swimmy Swim
03 - Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)
04 - Rattle My Rattle
05 - I Want My Milk (I Want it Now)
06 - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
07 - One Day Old
08 - Wash-y Wash Wash (Warshy Little Tootsy)
09 - I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You
10 - Make a Bobble
11 - Who's My Pretty Baby (Hey Pretty Baby)
12 - I'll Write and I'll Draw
13 - Why, Oh Why
14 - Pick It Up
15 - Pretty and Shiny-O
16 - Needle Sing
17 - Bling-Blang
18 - Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')




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Woody Guthrie - Library Of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3 CD



Made by Alan Lomax over a three day period in 1940, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS includes many of Woody Guthrie's best-loved songs, coupled with his commentary and observations of America in the 30's.

Throughout the '30s and '40s, folklorist and historian Alan Lomax traveled the country seeking out traditional folk and blues performers. His field recordings brought the world dozens of treasured performers, some of whom never recorded again after his initial visit. One of his most important finds was the Oklahoma newspaper reporter, social activist, and folk balladeer Woody Guthrie.

Lomax's recordings of Guthrie, made over a three-day period in March 1940, are collected in full on the three-disc LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS box set. The sessions were loose, unscripted affairs in the Lomax tradition. Between songs, Guthrie extemporizes on a variety of topics and provides a loose autobiography. But it's the songs, including magnificent performances of originals and standards like the gangster ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd," the topical "Dust Bowl Blues," and the spirited singalong "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya," that make this collection indispensable.


Personnel: Woody Guthrie (vocals, guitar, harmonica).

Not so much an album as a historical aural document, this nearly three-hour, three-CD set chronicles three days of interviews and songs featuring a 27-year-old Woody Guthrie on March 21, 22 and 27, 1940. Alan Lomax and his wife, Elizbeth, take Guthrie through his autobiography and his reflections on the Dust Bowl, and he proves a witty, rustic raconteur who is even more impressive when he picks up the guitar and performs such original songs as "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You," "Talking Dust Bowl Blues," "Do-Re-Mi," and "Pretty Boy Floyd," as well as traditional material. Guthrie did not make his first studio recordings until later in 1940, but his repertoire and performance style were clearly long-established by this time. It is easy to hear why he was such a revelation to the folk world of the '40s, especially because his influence has been so pervasive: much of the next 20 years in folk music derives from these sessions, even though they were not commercially released until 1964, as a box set on Elektra Records. Rounder reissued the album on LP in the 1988 and on CD in the 1997. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide


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01. (00:06:23) Woody Guthrie - Lost Train Blues
02. (00:07:54) Woody Guthrie - Railroad Blues
03. (00:03:04) Woody Guthrie - Rye Whiskey
04. (00:02:04) Woody Guthrie - Old Joe Clark
05. (00:06:59) Woody Guthrie - Beaumont Rag
06. (00:02:36) Woody Guthrie - Texas Oil Field
07. (00:02:22) Woody Guthrie - Greenback Dollar
08. (00:08:34) Woody Guthrie - Boll Weevil Song
09. (00:06:16) Woody Guthrie - So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
10. (00:05:17) Woody Guthrie - Talking Dust Bowl Blues
11. (00:03:04) Woody Guthrie - Do-Re-Mi

Playing Time.........: 00:54:32
Total Size...........: 124.84 MB





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01. (00:09:41) Woody Guthrie - Hard Times
02. (00:06:14) Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
03. (00:03:56) Woody Guthrie - They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave
04. (00:03:35) Woody Guthrie - Jolly Banker
05. (00:05:18) Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home
06. (00:04:41) Woody Guthrie - Dirty Overalls
07. (00:04:21) Woody Guthrie - Chain Around My Leg
08. (00:06:00) Woody Guthrie - Worried Man Blues
09. (00:03:35) Woody Guthrie - Lonesome Valley
10. (00:10:32) Woody Guthrie - Walking Down That Railroad Line

Playing Time.........: 00:57:52
Total Size...........: 132.48 MB



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01. (00:11:53) Woody Guthrie - Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
02. (00:05:33) Woody Guthrie - Dust Storm Disaster
03. (00:02:21) Woody Guthrie - Foggy Mountain Top
04. (00:09:11) Woody Guthrie - Dust Pneumonia Blues
05. (00:08:21) Woody Guthrie - California Blues
06. (00:10:13) Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Refugees
07. (00:03:08) Woody Guthrie - Will Rogers Highway
08. (00:04:40) Woody Guthrie - Los Angeles New Year's Flood

Playing Time.........: 00:55:21
Total Size...........: 126.69 MB

Recording date: 1964
Release Date: Jun 20, 1989
Label: Rounder CD 1041/2/3
Mono/Stereo Mono Engineer Alan Lomax
Recording Time 161 minutes




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Woody Guthrie - Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs

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In April 1944, 31-year-old Woody Guthrie discovered a recording outlet when he hooked up with record company owner Moses Asch, who agreed to let him cut a virtually unlimited number of masters informally. Guthrie simply would turn up at Asch's studios alone or with such friends as Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Leadbelly, and Bess Lomax Hawes, and record his repertoire of original and traditional songs. The repository soon grew to hundreds of titles, far more than even a major label, much less a tiny independent, could release contemporaneously. Over the decades, Asch did release many of the tracks, but by 1962, when he assembled the LP Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, he still had a significant caché of unissued material like that found on this disc. In the ensuing 18 years, the folk revival had kicked in, and such artists as Joan Baez were taking folk music into the upper reaches of the charts. Guthrie was considered the godfather of the movement, and Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs played right into that, as he could be heard singing songs like "The Rising Sun Blues" (aka "The House of the Rising Sun") and "The Boll Weevil," the same songs that the new generation of folk singers were performing in coffee houses. In truth, with the combination of guitars, mandolin, harmonica, and fiddle, plus Houston's rough high harmonies, the arrangements often were more evocative of the old-timey country string bands of the '30s, such as the Monroe Brothers, than early-'60s urban folk. Then, too, although some of the songs were credited to Guthrie as a songwriter, this was not the Guthrie of "This Land Is Your Land," but rather Guthrie the traditional folk singer. Still, Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs was an excellent representation of rural folk music that consolidated Guthrie's position as the newly fashionable genre's main progenitor.


TrackList:

01. Hard Traveling
02. What Did The Deep Sea Say?
03. The House Of The Rising Sun
04. 900 Miles (Instrumental)
05. John Henry
06. Oregon Trail
07. We Shall Be Free
08. Dirty Overalls (My Dirty Overhauls)
09. Jackhammer John
10. Springfield Mountain
11. Brown Eyes
12. Boll Weevil Blues (Boll Weevil)
13. Guitar Blues (Instrumental)
14. Will You Miss Me?




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Woody Guthrie - Archive Of Folk Music L.P.

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1970 ???
Everest LP 204
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Full LP cover Scans
Folk, American Folk, Traditional Folk, Field Recordings

In the spring of 1944, fresh off a torpedoed merchant marine ship, Woody Guthrie began showing up at the offices of Moses Asch's Asch Records, where the record company owner let him make recordings informally; Guthrie would show up either alone or with a friend, usually his merchant marine partner Cisco Houston, but also Sonny Terry, Bess Lomax Hawes, and/or... more Leadbelly, and they would cut dozens of old folk songs, some with newly written lyrics by Guthrie, plus some of Guthrie's outright originals. The masters quickly piled up into the hundreds, far more than even a major label could release, and Asch had only issued a fraction of them by 1947, when he went bankrupt. That had ominous implications for Guthrie's discography, since some of the masters were retained by Asch's creditors, including his former partner, Herbert Harris of Stinson Records. The two disputed ownership of the material, but neither seems to have had the money for a legal battle. Asch, returning to solvency, put his Guthrie tracks out on his newly formed Folkways Records, while Harris released his on Stinson. (Other recordings were acquired by Pickwick Records and later appeared on such labels as Everest.)


TrackList:

A1 - Gypsy Davy
A2 - More Pretty Girls Than One
A3 - Pretty Boy Floyd
A4 - Poor Boy
A5 - Hey Lolly Lolly
A6 - Lonesome Day
B1 - John Henry
B2 - Rangers Command
B3 - Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
B4 - Buffalo Skinners
B5 - Hard, Ain't It Hard
B6 - Worried Man Blues




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Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly - The Original Vision

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01 Leadbelly and Anne Graham - Sylvie
02 Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
03 Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi
04 Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home
05 Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ
06 Leadbelly - Rock Island Line
07 Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, Brownie Mcghee - 4, 5 and 9
08 Will Geer reading Guthrie
09 Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelling
10 Leadbelly - Fannin Street
11 Woody Guthrie - Philadelphia Lawyer
12 Woody Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby
13 Leadbelly - The Bourgeois Blues
14 Leadbelly - Gray Goose
15 Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene
16 Woody Guthrie - Vigilante Man
17 Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
18 Woody Guthrie - Woody's Rag (Hard Work)
19 Leadbelly - The Midnight Special
20 Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry - We Shall Be Free




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Woody Guthrie - "Back Where I Come From" Sampler

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A mixture of Radio shows, Public Broadcasts and shows for Children (Woodie wrote a god few Childrens Story Books....some are still in print or available as eBooks).

The quality is a little hissy....typical radio broadcast material of the 1950's.

All seems to be ex- New York city area stations.


TrackList:

01 The Lonesome Traveller
02 Interview
03 Wabash Cannonball
04 900 Miles From Home
05 "Hootenanny" Intro
06 I Feel So Good
07 10,000 Miles
08 Summertime
09 Hard, Aint It Hard
10 Talking Blues
11 John Henry
12 Commercials
13 ???????
14 Childrens Story by Woody
15 So Long Its Been Good To Know Yuh (Version 1)
16 So Long Its Been Good To Know Yuh (Version 2)
17 Talking
18 Outtro




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The Very Best of Woody Guthrie: Legend of American Folk Blues





The Woody Guthrie album Worried Man Blues: The Best Of, released by Master Classics in 2005, is identical in contents and annotations to the Woody Guthrie album The Very Best Of released by Purple Pyramid in 2001. Ever since 1947, when record company owner Moses Asch declared bankruptcy and his former partner and creditor, Herbert Harris of Stinson Records, held onto a batch of Asch's Woody Guthrie masters in lieu of payment, those tracks, a small part of a cache of hundreds of casually recorded songs Guthrie and such friends as Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry made starting in April 1944, have been issued over and over on albums that, while unauthorized, are -- strictly speaking -- not illegal. (Asch disputed Harris' ownership of the tracks, but neither had the wherewithal to pursue claims in court.) The first of these albums were on Stinson Records, of course, but they have appeared on many labels since.


Here is another collection of a baker's dozen of them, licensed from San Juan Music Group. These old folk songs sometimes boast new lyrics from Guthrie, and the collection also includes the occasional Guthrie original, such as "Pretty Boy Floyd." With Houston chiming in on tenor vocals here and there, plus Sonny Terry's harmonica added to the guitar and/or mandolin accompaniment, the style is somewhat akin to the old-timey country music of such 1930s artists as the Monroe Brothers, and for the most part, this is not the Woody Guthrie of "This Land Is Your Land." Master Classics has taken some actions to separate its release from the pack of similar competitors, and bringing in Dave Thompson to write liner notes on each individual song was a good idea, along with listing recording dates and personnel. ~ William Ruhlmann

This CD is an open window on the simple recordings of Woody's raw folk music. Accompanied only by himself on guitar and harmonica the sounds feel very intimate. This is music which reflects the simple and restrained emotions of the poor of America. Aspirations, fears and feelings of pride all feature in the works. Highlights include 'Dust Pneumonia Blues', 'Put My Little Shoes Away' and 'Do Re Mi'. Music Club.

Recorded in 1944.h

Personnel: Woody Guthrie (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Cisco Houston (vocals, guitar); Sonny Terry (harmonica).


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01. (00:02:19) Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
02. (00:02:26) Woody Guthrie - Pastures Of Plenty
03. (00:03:10) Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
04. (00:02:36) Woody Guthrie - Take A Whiff On Me
05. (00:02:38) Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi
06. (00:02:33) Woody Guthrie - Put My Little Shoes Away
07. (00:03:18) Woody Guthrie - Washington Talkin' Blues
08. (00:02:13) Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin'
09. (00:02:46) Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ
10. (00:03:03) Woody Guthrie - Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
11. (00:02:58) Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam
12. (00:02:55) Woody Guthrie - A Picture From Life's Other Side
13. (00:03:18) Woody Guthrie - Talkin' Hard Luck Blues
14. (00:02:32) Woody Guthrie - Philadelphia Lawyer
15. (00:02:48) Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home
16. (00:01:52) Woody Guthrie - The Wreck Of The Old '97
17. (00:02:36) Woody Guthrie - Keep Your Skillet Good and Greasy
18. (00:09:13) Woody Guthrie - Dust Pneumonia Blues
19. (00:02:49) Woody Guthrie - Going Down That Road Feeling Bad
20. (00:03:21) Woody Guthrie - Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')
21. (00:03:07) Woody Guthrie - So Long, It's Been Good To Know You

Playing Time.........: 01:04:30
Total Size...........: 147.66 MB




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Woody Guthrie - Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol.2

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Moses Asch was not only the founder of Folkways Records, but also a tireless preserver of traditional folk idioms and performers. Like John and Alan Lomax, he often traveled the country making field recordings of traditional folk songs, often along with reminiscences and anecdotes by the performers. By the time these recordings were made in a New York studio in the mid-'40s, Woody Guthrie was not only already a well-known performer and songwriter, he was nearing the end of his public career due to failing health. However, Asch treated these sessions just as he did his field recordings, neither adding to or taking from these classic songs as Guthrie chose to record them. Sometimes solo, sometimes with the backing of folks like Brownie McGhee, Sorry Terry, Pete Seeger, and Cisco Houston, Guthrie performs folk and blues standards with his characteristic dry wit and unerring gift for interpretation. This collection is essential.


TrackList:

01. Muleskinner Blues
02. The Wreck Of The Old 97
03. Sally Goodin'
04. Little Black Train
05. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
06. Baltimore To Washington
07. Rubber Dolly
08. 21 Years
09. Sowing On The Mountain
10. Bed On The Floor
11. Take A Whiff On Me
12. Stepstone
13. Put My Little Shoes Away
14. Hen Cackle
15. Poor Boy
16. Stagger Lee
17. Johnny Hart (John Hardy)
18. Worried Man Blues
19. Danville Girl
20. Gambling Man
21. Rye Straw
22. Crawdad Song
23. Ida Red
24. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
25. Train 45

Woody Guthrie (vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle)
Cisco Houston (vocals, guitar)
Butch Hawes (guitar)
Bess Lomax Hawes (mandolin, background vocals)
Pete Seeger (banjo)
Sonny Terry (harmonica).

Recorded in New York, New York between 1944 and 1947.




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Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4; Buffalo Skinners (1999)



Recorded in New York, New York between 1944 and 1949. Includes liner notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records and a tireless preserver of traditional folk idioms and performers, treated even his studio sessions like field recordings, neither adding to nor taking from the songs as his performers chose to play them. Performed mostly solo (though Cisco Houston occasionally appears on guitar and backing vocals), these tracks range from the allegorical kiddie song "Froggie Went a-Courtin'," complete with the bloody conclusion often removed from sanitized versions, to work songs and cowboy tunes, with special emphasis placed on biographical tunes like "Billy the Kid" and Guthrie's own gangster saga "Pretty Boy Floyd." By the time these recordings were made in a New York studio in the late '40s, Woody Guthrie was nearing the end of his public career due to failing health, but he performs these 26 traditional folk and blues ballads and story songs with his characteristic dry wit and unerring gift for interpretation.

Compilation producers: Jeff Place, Guy Logsdon.
Liner Note Authors: Guy Logsdon; Jeff Place.
Recording information: 1944-1949.
Personnel: Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston (vocals, guitar).
Producer: Moses Asch.

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01. (00:02:53) Woody Guthrie - Ranger's Command
02. (00:03:18) Woody Guthrie - Buffalo Skinners
03. (00:02:03) Woody Guthrie - Billy The Kid
04. (00:02:05) Woody Guthrie - Cowboy Waltz
05. (00:03:02) Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
06. (00:02:31) Woody Guthrie - Along in the Sun and the Rain
07. (00:02:50) Woody Guthrie - Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Liittle Dogies
08. (00:03:30) Woody Guthrie - Froggie Went a Courtin'
09. (00:02:37) Woody Guthrie - Buffalo Gals
10. (00:02:58) Woody Guthrie - I Ride An Old Paint
11. (00:02:54) Woody Guthrie - Dead Or Alive
12. (00:02:34) Woody Guthrie - Slipknot
13. (00:02:16) Woody Guthrie - Cocaine Blues
14. (00:02:52) Woody Guthrie - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
15. (00:02:27) Woody Guthrie - Chisholm Trail
16. (00:03:29) Woody Guthrie - Stewball
17. (00:04:00) Woody Guthrie - Wild Cyclone
18. (00:03:34) Woody Guthrie - Train Blues
19. (00:02:54) Woody Guthrie - Red River Valley
20. (00:04:18) Woody Guthrie - Fastest of Ponies
21. (00:02:30) Woody Guthrie - Stewball
22. (00:02:34) Woody Guthrie - Snow Deer
23. (00:01:46) Woody Guthrie - When the Curfew Blows
24. (00:02:16) Woody Guthrie - Little Darling
25. (00:03:05) Woody Guthrie - Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
26. (00:02:35) Woody Guthrie - The Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty

Playing Time.........: 01:13:50
Total Size...........: 169.03 MB (MP3)
Total Size...........: 242.00 MB (FLAC)






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The Guthrie Family - Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs

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This great collection of songs earned a Grammy Nomination in 1993. Lost for over 40 years, the manuscript of this collection of songs, written and illustrated by Woody Guthrie with his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was rediscovered and released in 1991. Woody's kids and grandkids sing along with his early recordings adding their voices and instruments to the originals where they exist and creating new music when needed. The booklet contains the original artwork and lyrics by Woody and Marjorie Guthrie. The words to all the songs are included.


TrackList:

01. Wake Up
02. Cleano
03. Mailman
04. Put Your Finger in the Air
05. Dance Around
06. Don't You Push Me Down
07. Merry Go Round
08. Jig Along Home
09. Howdy Doo
10. All Work Together
11. Bling Blang
12. Needle Sing
13. Pick It Up
14. Riding In My Car
15. Race you Down the Mountain
16. MY DOLLY
17. Little Seed
18. Little Bird
19. Pretty and Shinyo
20. Sleep Eye




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Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives and others - The Ballad Operas - The Martins and The Coys

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This "ballad opera" is perhaps the most unlikely of all Alan Lomax projects. Recorded in 1944 for the BBC and reissued as part of the "Lomax Collection's Concert and Radio Series", "The Martins and the Coys" was based on a 1936 "imitation hillbilly" novelty hit by bandleader Ted Weems about feuding families similar to the Hatfields and the McCoys. The two families are eventually united by their love for America and mountain life, and by their hatred of fascism.

Lomax blended together narration, instrumentals, and traditional and topical songs, performed by urban and rural folk artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger (both then unknown outside Manhattan folk circles), Burl Ives, and Grand Ole Opry great, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Ives) and "Nine Hundred Miles" (Guthrie) are stunning. For collectors only, but it's that rarest of period pieces, one with style and substance. Listening to the unabashed patriotism of these performers, it's incomprehensible that within a decade, many would be blacklisted as un-American.


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01. Martins and the Coys - Pete Seeger
02. Introduction - Alan Lomax
03. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase - Will Geer, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger
04. Martins and the Coys - Geoff Bryant, Helen Claire, Jimmy Dobson, Will Geer, Burl Ives, Katherine Raht
05. Run, Boys, Run - Pete Seeger, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
06. Back to the Cabin - Geoff Bryant, Jimmy Dobson, Will Geer
07. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair - Burl Ives
08. Alec Coy at the Induction Center - "Chairman", "Sergeant", Woody Guthrie
09. You Better Get Ready - Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry
10. At the Deer Forks Railway Depot - Geoff Bryant, Jimmy Dobson, Will Geer, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Katherine Raht
11. Nine Hundred Miles - Woody Guthrie
12. Train Departs - Burl Ives
13. On Top of Old Smoky - Pete Seeger, Hally Wood
14. Agricultural Agent Visits the Coys - Helen Claire, Katherine Raht, Carson Robison
15. Deliver the Goods - Bella Allen, Rosalie Allen, Lily May Ledford, Pete Seeger
16. Alec and Ben in the Army Camp - Geoff Bryant, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives
17. When We All Go Marching In - Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry
18. Deer Forks Victory Garden - Helen Claire, Will Geer, Burl Ives, Margaret Johnson, Katherine Raht
19. Red Rocking Chair - Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Hally Wood
20. Uncle Boone Visits the Coys - Helen Claire, Will Geer, Katherine Raht
21. How Many Biscuits Can You Eat? - Bella Allen, Rosalie Allen, Will Geer, Lily May Ledford
22. Ben and Alec Call off the Feud - Geoff Bryant, Woody Guthrie
23. All of You Fascists Bound to Lose - Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry
24. Ben and Sary Meet Again - Geoff Bryant, Helen Claire
25. Turtle Dove - Burl Ives, Hally Wood
26. Ben Proposes to Sary - Geoff Bryant, Helen Claire
27. Smoky Mountain Gals - Bella Allen, Rosalie Allen, Lily May Ledford, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
28. Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand - Woody Guthrie, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
29. Round and Round Hitler's Grave - Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger
30. Closing - Burl Ives
31. New Martins and the Coys - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry
32. Martins and the Coys - Ted Weems
33. New Martins and the Coys - Burl Ives, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Union Boys
34. East Virginia Blues - Lily May Ledford
35. Sugar Babe - Lily May Ledford, Pete Seeger
36. Gypsy Davy - Bella Allen, Rosalie Allen, Lily May Ledford
37. Girls in the Neighborhood - Bella Allen, Rosalie Allen, Lily May Ledford




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Woody Guthrie - Long Ways to Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters

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TrackList:

01. Hard Traveling
02. Talking Centralia (Talking Miner)
03. Farmer-Labor Train
04. Harriet Tubman's Ballad
05. Warden in the Sky
06. Train Narration
07. Seattle to Chicago
08. Rain Crow Bill
09. Along in the Sun and the Rain
10. Budded Roses
11. Train Ride Medley (part 1): I Ride an Old Paint / Ride Around, Little Dogies / Bed on the Floor / Chicago, Chicago
12. Girl I Left Behind Me
13. Wiggledy Giggledy
14. Kissin' On
15. Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty
16. Train Ride Medley (part 2): New York City / Baltimore to Washington / Delaware Gap / Lynchburg Town / Blue Eyes / The Girl I Left in Sunny T
17. Long Ways to Travel




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Cisco Houston Sings The Songs Of Woody Guthrie

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Cisco Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware on August 18, 1918. He was, among other things, a folksinger and that is what he is best known for. He sang cowboy ballads, he sang railroad songs, he sang union songs, he sang of heroes and villains and hobos and killers, he sang the old time songs of the southern Appalachians, he sang children's songs and silly songs and humorous songs; he sang in coffeehouses, colleges and festivals, he sang in plays, he sang on the radio and on television; he sang on many records; he sang in union halls and at political rallies; he sang on our ships during World War II and he sang in India and in England; he sang with Pete and with Sonny & Brownie and he sang with Sis and Gordon and Lee Hays and he sang with his close friend Woody, both in person and on records.


TrackList:

01 - Pastures Of Plenty
02 - Ship In The Sky
03 - Deportees
04 - Grand Coulee Dam
05 - Sinking Of The Rueben James
06 - Curly Headed Baby
07 - Ladies Auxiliary
08 - Taking It Easy
09 - Hard, Aint It Hard
10 - Jesus Christ
11 - Buffalo Skinners
12 - Pretty Boy Floyd
13 - Philadelphia Lawyer
14 - Old Lone Wolf
15 - Talking Fishing Blues
16 - Ranger's Command
17 - Do Re Mi




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Woody Guthrie - Worried Man Blues (1994)




Not to be confused with similarly titled Woody Guthrie albums (such as Collectables Records' Worried Man Blues: Golden Classics) the Special Music Company's Worried Man Blues is a ten-track, budget-priced release collecting some familiar songs that have appeared previously many times. They date from Guthrie's informal sessions for Moses Asch in the '40s, when he would turn up with such pals as Cisco Houston and harmonica player Sonny Terry in tow for off-the-cuff performances of their favorite old folk songs and some of Guthrie's originals. Terry in particular makes his presence felt on several of these tracks, notably "Lost John," which is a vocal-and-harmonica duet. The only one of Guthrie's major original compositions to appear is "Pretty Boy Floyd." The packaging is skimpy and in some cases inaccurate (the fourth track is "Gypsy Davy," not "Black Jack Davis [sic]"), and there are better representations of this material on disc. ~ William Ruhlmann

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01. (00:03:07) Woody Guthrie - Worried Man Blues
02. (00:02:44) Woody Guthrie - John Henry
03. (00:03:08) Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
04. (00:02:54) Woody Guthrie - Black Jack Davie
05. (00:02:20) Woody Guthrie - Cumberland Gap
06. (00:02:15) Woody Guthrie - Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
07. (00:02:59) Woody Guthrie - Sourwood Mountain
08. (00:02:44) Woody Guthrie - Stackolee
09. (00:04:07) Woody Guthrie - Lost John
10. (00:02:54) Woody Guthrie - Chain Gang Special

Playing Time.........: 00:29:12
Total Size...........: 66.85 MB
Total Size...........: 106.70 MB





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Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Balladeer

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TrackList:

01.This Land Is Your Land
02.I Ain't Got No Home
03.Vigilante Man
04.Pretty Boy Floyd
05.Grand Coulee Dam
06.Cumberland Gap
07.Take A Whiff On Me
08.Go Tell Aunt Rhody
09.Tom Joad Part 1
10.Tom Joad Part 2
11.Philadelphia Lawyer
12.Do Re Mi
13.Dust Bowl Blues
14.Talking Dust Bowl Blues
15.Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
16.Dust Can't Kill Me
17.Dust Pneumonia Blues
18.Gambling Man
19.Stewball
20.Stackolee
21.Mule Skinner Blues
22.Buffalo Skinners
23.Worried Man Blues
24.Keep Your Skillet Good ; Greasy
25.I Ride An Old Paint
26.Ship In The Sky
27.When The Yanks Go Marching In



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Woody & Arlo Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land (2006)



America's most renowned folksinger Woody Guthrie was also the most inspired writer of children's music of his era. Covered by scores of performers, these songs remain unsurpassed in their appeal to children and in their ability to transport adults to a child's world. This collection features Woody himself along with his son Arlo Guthrie in rollicking and uplifting performances.

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01. (00:04:15) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Howdido
02. (00:03:52) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Riding In My Car
03. (00:03:09) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Jig Along Home
04. (00:04:25) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Mail Myself to You
05. (00:02:32) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
06. (00:03:39) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Bling Blang
07. (00:03:22) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - All Work Together
08. (00:02:48) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Grassey Grass Grass
09. (00:02:33) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh
10. (00:03:48) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land (instrumental)
11. (00:03:20) Woody & Arlo Guthrie - All Work Together (instrumental)

Playing Time.........: 00:37:43
Total Size...........: 86.330 MB (mp3)
Total Size...........: 258.15 MB (flac)




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