Woody Guthrie - American Ballad Song 1 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Originally intended as a teaching aid for senior high school social studies and covering a broad scope of civic, government, economic, citizenship and immigration issues, this compilation provides a provocative mid-century impression of America culled from witnesses to the first half of the twentieth century. We are treated to songs from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds; speeches from Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr.. and Williams Jennings Bryan; so-called Inchbrag talkInch by cowboys; and pronouncement of an oath of loyalty by Chief John Oberly of the InchOsage Tribe of IndiansInch affirming that he will not conspire with any political parties to overthrow the US government. Album Tracks 1. Skada in America 2. Bragg Talk 3. Immigrant Worker 4. He Lies in the American Land 5. German-American Loyalty 6. American Indian Loyalty Oath 7. Two Good Men 8. Ballad of Sherman Wu 9. Immortality 10. The Lord's Prayer 11. F.D.R's Back Again 12. Then and Now 13. Puerto Ricans in New York 14. Roll on Columbia 15. Conestoga Wagoner's Complaint 16. Trusts 17. Banks of Marble 18. The Farmer 19. The Farmer Is the Man (Who Feeds Us All) 1. One-Third of a Nation 2. Pastures of Plenty 3. Labor Strife 4. Ludlow Massacre 5. Money, Money, Money 6. Too Old to Work 7. Corruption 8. Teacher's Blues 9. The Taxation Tyranny 10. Van Buren 11. The Political Smear 12. If He's Good Enough for Lindy 13. I'm a Migrant 14. Keep Moving 15. Too Many Bookmakers 16. The Delinquent 17. Let's Move It 18. The Negro Voter 19. Desegregation at Little Rock 20. The State of Arkansas 21. The Supreme Court 22. The Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan 23. They Go Wild Over Me 1. First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments 2. The Communist 11 3. Land of the Daily Worker 4. Landing of the A.E.

This one is as influential as it is essential. Woody is accompanied here by Lead Belly, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry and others. InchHard Travelin',Inch InchOregon Trail,Inch InchThe House of the Rising Sun,Inch InchJohn Henry,Inch InchBoll Weevil Blues,Inch and more. 14 tracks in all. Smithsonian-Folkways. Album Tracks 1. Hard Travelin' 2. What Did the Deep Sea Say? 3. The Rising Sun Blues 4. Nine Hundred Miles - (Instrumental) 5. John Henry 6. Oregon Trail 7. We Shall Be Free 8. Dirty Overhalls 9. Jackhammer Blues 10. Springfield Mountain 11. Brown Eyes 12. The Boll Weevil 13. Guitar Blues - (Instrumental) 14. Will You Miss Me?

Recorded in 1940, and later reissued by Folkways Recordings in 1950, Guthrie's first album chronicles the American Dust Bowl through his prosaic style of talking blues. Using only guitar and vocals, the album follows the exodus of Midwesterners headed for California and mirrors both Guthrie's own life and John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. Along the way, characters are forced into theft, murder, and unbearable hardship against a biblical backdrop of the American West. Hugely influential, Dust Bowl Ballads has been revered by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. In Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, Steinbeck wrote of Guthrie InchHarsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit.Inch Album Tracks 1. Talking Dust Bowl 2. Blowin' Down This Road 3. Do-Re-Mi 4. Dust Cain't Kill Me 5. Tom Joad 6. The Great Dust Storm 7. So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) 8. Dust Bowl Refugee 9. Dust Pneumonia Blues 10. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 11. Vigilante Man