American Folk Legend (2005)

About this title: Woody Guthrie's recordings, virtually all made in the 1940s, are in the public domain in Europe, where copyright extends only 50 years. That means anyone who wants to can release a Guthrie album without licensing the material or paying royalties. Golden Stars' three-disc Guthrie box set American Folk Legend is a good example. Running an hour and 52 minutes and containing 42 tracks, the contents could have fit onto two CDs easily. The collection has no annotations beyond song titles and songwriting credits. It appears that all the unnamed compilers did was take some of the recent Guthrie ... read more

Tracks:

1. Pastures of Plenty [Guthrie]
2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) [Guthrie]
3. Hard, Ain't It Hard [Guthrie]
4. Car Song [Guthrie]
5. Ramblin' Round [Guthrie]
6. Ship in the Sky [Guthrie]
7. Sinking of the Reuben James [Guthrie]
8. Do-Re-Mi [Guthrie]
9. Jesus Christ [Guthrie]
10. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow) [Guthrie]
11. 1913 Massacre [Guthrie]
12. Talking Fishing Blues [Guthrie]
13. Pretty Boy Floyd [Guthrie]
14. Grand Coulee Dam [Guthrie]
15. Hard Travelin' [Guthrie]
16. Wreck of the Old '97 [Traditional]
17. Sally Goodin' [Traditional]
18. Farmer-Labor Train [Guthrie]
19. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore [Guthrie]
20. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies [Guthrie]
21. Jesse James [Ledbetter/Guthrie]
22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad [Guthrie/Hays]
23. When That Great Ship Went Down [Traditional]
24. Billy the Kid [Jenkins]
25. Buffalo Gals [Traditional]
26. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus) [Guthrie]
27. Slipknot (Hangknot, Skipknot) [Guthrie]
28. New York Town [Traditional]
29. This Land Is Your Land [Guthrie]
30. Buffalo Skinners [Traditional]
31. Mule Skinner Blues [Rodgers/Vaughn]
32. Jarama Valley [Seeger/Guthrie/Hays]
33. New Found Land [Guthrie]
34. Talking Columbia [Guthrie]
35. Talking Sailor [Guthrie]
36. Cowboy Waltz [Traditional]
37. Go Tell Aunt Rhody [Traditional]
38. Chisholm Trail [Traditional]
39. Ranger's Command [Guthrie]
40. Stackolee [Traditional]
41. Danville Girl [Traditional]
42. Better World A-Comin' [Guthrie]

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