You'd think the last word in Woody Guthrie reissues would have appeared before this. After all, the legendary folksinger recorded most of his best work nearly 60 years before this was released, and the bulk of it has been regularly reissued in fine collections on Folkways, Rounder, and other labels. So this CD is as surprising as it is welcome. ...
Some of the last songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie were his children's songs. Their strength, shown in Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child, is an unusually strong identification with actually being a child, in all its simplicity and charm, along with the ability to win over listeners. Good examples here are "Rattle My Rattle" and "I ...
A two-record set released on one CD, this collection of great Woody Guthrie songs performed by some of Guthrie's apostles, as well as by Guthrie himself, serves as a nice overview of his music. From the opening notes of "This Land Is Your Land" and a composite arrangement that starts with Guthrie and his guitar, then folds into the Weavers ...
Woody Guthrie's Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 is another shining example of Smithsonian/Folkways' ability to create a historically important document that is both fun and enriching. Combining four separate compilations (This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2, Hard Travelin': The Asch ...
There are over 200 children's recordings in the Folkways catalog. This is not just a smart collection of 26 of the best items from that body of work; it's also folk music that adults might actually listen to for pleasure, at least for part of the time. There are kids' songs, or at least songs that are fun for kids to sing, from such folk giants as ...
Nearly 60 years after Woody Guthrie recorded most of his best work comes a series that finally does it total justice. The music all issues from the master tapes of Folkways Records founder Moses Asch, for whom Guthrie made his most important recordings. Sound quality is uniformly pristine, the liner notes are extensive and exceptional, and the ...
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rounder Records, this bargain-priced double CD emphasizes folk music but encompasses a wide range of styles, including close-harmony duet (Whitstein Brothers), flatpicking (Norman Blake), Cajun (Le Trio Cadien), Piedmont blues (Etta Baker), gospel (E.C. & Orna Ball), old-time country (Mike Seeger), cowboy music ...
Thirty Library of Congress field recordings from 1933 to 1946, compiled and thoroughly annotated by Stephen Wade. There are many Library of Congress collections, but the diversity of performances on this disc might make one of the better selections for someone who's interested enough in folkloric recordings to have just a few, as opposed to an ...
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 ...
In Songs to Grow On - Vol. 1 (Nursery Days), Guthrie once again effectively evokes the child's point of view with such simple, yet exciting songs as "Car Song" (with its chorus "Goin' for a ride in the car car") and "Put Your Finger in the Air." Ages 3-5. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Sound and Spirit: Welcoming Children into the World collects performances from a popular episode of WGBH's Sound and Spirit show for Public Radio International. Artists like Woody Guthrie and Sweet Honey in the Rock perform traditional children's tunes, and the album also includes a Navajo birth chant, Bosnian and Nepalese lullabies, and other ...
There are countless Woody Guthrie compilations on the market, most of which draw on either his early-'40s recordings for Alan Lomax or the Moe Asch recordings from later in the decade. In Guthrie's case, it hardly makes a difference, since his approach and sound are the same in both instances, a mix of traditional folk songs with poignant ...
Essentially a label sampler featuring selections from children's albums by Buckwheat Zydeco, Cedella Marley Booker, Maria Muldaur, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Taj Mahal, and John McCutcheon, Music for Little People's A Children's Celebration of Folk Music is filled out by the licensing of songs by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, Raffi, David ...
In May 1941, Woody Guthrie began working for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a job that required him to write songs to promote development (dams) on the Columbia River. He would later claim that he wrote a song per day during his month-long association with the BPA, making it one of the most productive periods of his life. Several of ...
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 ...
This assemblage of blues, bluegrass, mountain ballads, topical songs, and jazz shows the wide range of American vernacular music, and Smithsonian Folkways' commitment to it. Among the many highlights here are Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson's ragged and yet sleek version of "The Coo Coo Bird," Doug Wallin's creaky and breathless a cappella version ...
Released in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, United We Stand features some of the late 20th century's most patriotic pop songs, such as Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.," Brotherhood of Man's "United We Stand," Al Green's "Amazing Grace," George Adams' "Star Spangled Banner," and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." There are also several ...
This various-artists folk compilation is a companion CD to John Cohen's book of photographs, There Is No Eye. Cohen, as many people interested in the music assembled here will already know, is not just a photographer, but also a filmmaker, producer, and musician who was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. Whether or not you have the ...
A collection of classic folk performances that are enjoyable, but readily available elsewhere. Of the 29 tracks, 17 of them feature Woody Guthrie. Among the classic songs are "Tom Dooley," "900 Miles," "Alabama Bound," "Midnight Special," and "Casey Jones." The focus of the album is scattered, and there is nothing here that will excite collectors, ...
This 27-song collection focuses on Guthrie's topical songs, though not all of the topics are political; there is, for instance, a "Hanukkah Dance" and an excerpt from his variation on the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," the children's song "Howdjadoo," and the gospel number "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore." Progressives will find plenty to ...
Giants of the Folk Tradition is a budget box set that includes complete albums by Leadbelly (In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole), Woody Guthrie (Early Masters), and Odetta (At the Gate of Horn), all of which have been released in single-disc versions by Tradition Records. The three albums actually work kind of well together, and it is interesting ...
A two-disc set, Woody Guthrie's The Folk Collection contains a lot of the songs that are associated with the revered singer, like "Buffalo Skinners," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "House of the Rising Sun," and "John Henry" (which actually appears twice, once as a solo and once as a duet with Cisco Houston). There are many omissions as well (most noticeably ...
The 50-year copyright limit on recordings in Europe may be intended to put material into the "public domain" quickly for the benefit of the public, but its practical effect is to create a sort of gray market of unauthorized, unlicensed albums issued by bottom-feeding record companies that just master old vinyl records (or some legitimate company's ...
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