Woody Guthrie - Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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

Part two in Folkways' painstaking of Woody's fabled recordings for the tag! Includes 27 songs, mostly folk standards including Wreck of the Old 97; Take a Whiff on Me; Stackolee; Worried Man Blues; Ida Red; Baltimore to Washington; Por Boy, and more, with three unreleased tracks. 70 minutes of music with a 40-page booklet! Album Tracks 1. Muleskinner Blues 2. Wreck of the Old 97 3. Sally Goodin' 4. Little Black Train 5. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet 6. Baltimore to Washington 7. Rubber Dolly 8. 21 Years 9. Sowing on the Mountain 10. Bed on the Floor 11. Take a Wiff on Me 12. Stepstone 13. Put My Little Shoes Away 14. Hen Cackle 15. Poor Boy 16. Stackolee 17. Johnny Hart 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

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?