This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 (1997)

About this title: 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. What makes it probably the single best Guthrie disc you can own? For one thing, the compilers had total access to the archives of Folkways Records founder Moses Asch, for whom the singer made the lion's share of his most important recordings. And they ... read more

Tracks:

1. This Land Is Your Land [Guthrie]
2. Riding in My Car (Car Song) [Guthrie]
3. Ramblin' Round [Guthrie]
4. Talking Fishing Blues [Seeger]
5. Philadelphia Lawyer [Guthrie]
6. Lindbergh [Guthrie]
7. Hobo's Lullaby [Reeves]
8. Pastures of Plenty [Guthrie]
9. Grand Coulee Dam [Guthrie]
10. End of the Line [Guthrie]
11. New York Town [Guthrie]
12. Gypsy Davy [Guthrie]
13. Jesus Christ [Guthrie]
14. This Land Is Your Land [Guthrie]
15. Do-Re-Mi [Guthrie]
16. Jarama Valley [Guthrie]
17. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done [Guthrie]
18. Picture from Life's Other Side [Guthrie]
19. Jesse James [Guthrie]
20. Talking Hard Work [Guthrie]
21. When That Great Ship Went Down [Guthrie]
22. Hard, Ain't It Hard [Guthrie]
23. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad [Guthrie]
24. I Ain't Got Nobody [Guthrie]
25. Sinking of the Reuben James [Guthrie]
26. Why Oh Why [Guthrie]
27. This Land Is Your Land [Guthrie]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.