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The Woody Guthrie Story (CD)

By: Woody Guthrie (Artist)

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Woody Guthrie Artist Snapshot:

American folk music has produced few artists as gifted and complex as Woody Guthrie. As a songwriter, storyteller, and provocateur, Guthrie had few equals. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he became a wandering troubadour in his teens, and during the 1930s and 1940s, he amassed a huge body of songs about the social injustices he observed. His genius lay in his gift for seamlessly integrating his leftist political principles into simple, catchy songs for and about common folks. Guthrie was a tireless crusader for political causes from unions to migrant workers. His Dust Bowl troubadour sound influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Pete Seeger.

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DISC 1 for The Woody Guthrie Story (CD) Album By Woody Guthrie (Artist)
1   Great Dust Storm, The (Dust Storm Disaster)
2   I Ain't Got No Home
3   Talking Dust Bowl Blues
4   Vigilante Man
5   Dust Can't Kill Me
6   Dust Pneumonia Blues
7   Pretty Boy Floyd
8   Blowin' Down The Road (I Ain't Gonna To Be Treated This Way)
9   Tom Joad (Part 1)
10   Tom Joad (Part 2)
11   Dust Bowl Refugee
12   Do Re Mi
13   Dust Bowl Blues
14   Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
15   Dust Bowls Blues - (alternate take)
 

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Review

CMJ (8/21/00, p.31) - "...Remarkable as both an album and a historic document....these remastered, tragic tales are something humorous yet always gripping."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.51) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[H]ard, droll folksongs, they mourn the Oklahoma wheatfields becoming 'a rippling ocean of dust the wind had blown...'"

Title Note

Solo performer: Woody Guthrie (vocals, guitar, harmonica).

Reissue producers: Rob Santos, Nora Guthrie, Glenn Korman.

Recorded in New York, New York on April 26 & May 3, 1940. Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh & Woody Guthrie.

Digitally remastered by Doug Pomeroy (Pomeroy Audio).

American folk music has produced few artists as gifted and complex as Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's talents as a singer, harmonica player, and guitar player were merely ordinary, but as a songwriter, storyteller, and provocateur Guthrie had few equals. Guthrie's genius lay in his gift for seamlessly integrating his leftist political principles into his tales of common folks. Nowhere is this gift more evident than on DUST BOWL BALLADS. The fourteen-song set, originally released in 1940 on two albums of 78s, contains some of Woody Guthrie's most immediate and vibrant compositions, not surprising given that Guthrie had lived through the horrific Oklahoma dust storms of the early '30s.

DUST BOWL BALLADS benefits from its thematic cohesion, which allows it to play as a travelogue through the hard lives of Okie refugees. A number of tunes here will be instantly familiar: "I Ain't Got No Home," "Vigilante Man," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Do Re Mi," and "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" are all campfire standards. The less well-known tunes here, however, are no less great. Particularly memorable are "Tom Joad" (a seven-minute Cliff Notes version of "The Grapes of Wrath"), and "Talking Dust Bowl Blues." A classic album.

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