Woody Guthrie – Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (2012)
Woody Guthrie defined an era and culture in transition in his Dust Bowl ballads, his outlaw tales, his work and labor songs, antiwar songs, children’s songs, political songs, and a host of love songs and songs that touched on philosophy, geography, and the hard work of living day to day in an emerging industrial world. He was kind of a maverick troubadour beat journalist, writing and drawing constantly, and new poems, writings, drawings, and even previously unknown songs and recordings have kept turning up even a decade into the 21st century. Smithsonian Folkways, to honor the centennial year of Guthrie’s birth in 2012, has issued this 3-disc set of Guthrie’s songs housed in a beautiful 150-page hard-cover coffee-table book full of essays, letters, text, photos,drawings, and other Guthrie ephemera, including rare, previously unreleased recordings of Guthrie’s earliest material, made in 1937 when he was working for a radio station in Los Angeles. Guthrie was not a simple man, and he was driven by energies and demons that often even he didn’t understand, but he persisted, pushing himself across every possible creative medium of the times, and his life’s work, which begins with his songs (but covers so much more, including an iconic autobiography that was later turned into a movie), made him into one of the most important and vital American artists of the 20th century. That story is presented here in this wonderful set.
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is a 150-page large-format book containing three CDs with 57 tracks, including Woody's most important recordings such as the complete version of "This Land Is Your Land," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Pastures of Plenty," "Hard Travelin'," "Jesus Christ," "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore," and "Riding in My Car." The set also contains 21 previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard original songs, including Woody's first known -- and recently discovered -- recordings from 1937.
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Disc One:
1. This Land Is Your Land (Alternate Version)
2. Pastures of Plenty
3. Riding in My Car (Car Song)
4. The Grand Coulee Dam
5. Talking Dust Bowl
6. So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust)
7. Ramblin' Round
8. Philadelphia Lawyer
9. Hard Travelin'
10. Pretty Boy Floyd
11. Hobo's Lullaby
12. Talking Columbia
13. The Sinking of the Reuben James
14. Jesus Christ
15. Gypsy Davy
16. New York Town
17. Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad)
18. Hard, Ain't It Hard
19. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (The Great Historical Bum)
20. This Land Is Your Land (Standard Version)
21. Jarama Valley
22. Why, Oh Why?
23. I've Got to Know
Disc Two:
1. Better World A-Comin'
2. When That Great Ship Went Down (The Great Ship)
3. A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week
4. Talking Centralia
5. 1913 Massacre
6. Dirty Overalls
7. My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky)
8. Worried Man Blues
9. Hangknot, Slipknot
10. Buffalo Skinners
11. Howdi Do
12. Jackhammer John
13. The Ranger's Command
14. So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (WWII Version)
15. What Are We Waiting On?
16. Lindbergh
17. Ludlow Massacre
18. Bad Lee Brown (Cocain Blues)
19. Two Good Men
20. Farmer-Labor Train
21. The Jolly Banker
22. We Shall Be Free
Disc Three:
The Los Angeles Recordings
1. I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore)*
2. Them Big City Ways**
3. Do Re Mi*
4. Skid Row Serenade**
5. Radio Program: The Ballad Gazette With Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land*
What Did the Deep Sea Say? *
Blow Ye Winds*
Trouble on the Waters**
Blow the Man Down*
Normandy Was Her Name**
The Sinking of the Reuben James*
6. BBC: Children's Hour July 7, 1944
Intro-Wabash Cannonball*
900 Miles*
Stagger Lee*
Pretty Boy Floyd*
7. People's Songs Hootenanny
Ladies Auxiliary
Weaver's Life*
8. WNYC Radio Program: Folk Songs of America December 12, 1940
John Hardy*
Jesse James*
Tom Joad*
9. Reckless Talk**
10. All Work Together
11. My Little Seed
12. Goodnight Little Cathy**
*Previously Unreleased
**Previously Unreleased Original Song
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