Woody_Guthrie-Some_Folk-4CD-2006-JUST

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2006-10-17

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Artist.......: Woody Guthrie
Album........: Some Folk
Label........: Proper
Genre........: Folk
Catnr........: Properbox115
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-17-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
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track  title                                          time

       CD1 Worried Man Blues

 01.   Lost train blues                              02:18
 02.   Railroad blues                                01:06
 03.   Beaumont rag                                  03:07
 04.   Greenback dollar                              01:54
 05.   Boll weevil song                              01:55
 06.   So long it's been good to know you            03:40
 07.   Talking dust bowl blues                       02:40
 08.   Do-re-mi                                      02:43
 09.   Hard times                                    02:49
 10.   Pretty boy floyd                              04:22
 11.   They laid Jesus Christ in his grave           02:54
 12.   Jolly banker                                  02:49
 13.   I ain't got no home                           03:53
 14.   Dirty overalls                                03:57
 15.   Chain around my leg                           02:58
 16.   Worried man blues                             03:07
 17.   Goin' down that road feeling bad              03:33
 18.   Dust storm disaster                           04:35
 19.   Foggy mountain top                            02:02
 20.   Dust pneumonia blues                          06:23
 21.   California blues                              01:37
 22.   Dust bowl refugee                             04:26
 23.   Will Rogers highway                           02:51
 24.   Los Angeles new year's flood                  02:17

       CD2 The Great Dust Storm

 01.   The great dust storm                          03:21
 02.   Talkin' dust bowl blues                       02:41
 03.   Pretty boy floyd                              03:10
 04.   Dusty old dust                                03:09
 05.   Dust bowl blues                               03:27
 06.   Blowin' down this road                        03:04
 07.   Tom Joad (Part 1)                             03:26
 08.   Tom Joad (Part 2)                             03:29
 09.   Do-re-mi                                      02:35
 10.   Dust bowl refugee                             03:07
 11.   I ain't got no home                           02:46
 12.   Vigilante man                                 03:23
 13.   Dust can't kill me                            02:56
 14.   Dust pneumonia blues                          02:42
 15.   Oregon trail                                  02:45
 16.   Roll on Columbia                              03:10
 17.   New found land                                02:08
 18.   Talking Columbia                              03:18
 19.   Roll Columbia roll                            02:15
 20.   Columbia's waters                             04:21
 21.   Ramblin' blues                                01:56
 22.   It takes a married man to sing a worried song 01:43
 23.   Hard travelin'                                02:14
 24.   The biggest thing that man has ever done      02:20
 25.   Grand Coulee dam                              02:57

       CD3 Grand Coulee Dam

 01.   Song of the Coulee dam                        04:53
 02.   Jackhammer blues                              02:23
 03.   Washington talkin' blues                      03:17
 04.   Ramblin' round                                02:17
 05.   Pastures of plenty                            02:25
 06.   The biggest thing that man has ever done      02:20
 07.   End of the line                               02:52
 08.   I ride an old paint                           02:35
 09.   House of the rising sun                       02:55
 10.   Hard ain't it hard                            02:36
 11.   The dodger song                               02:37
 12.   Ida red                                       03:02
 13.   Muleskinner blues                             02:52
 14.   What are we waiting on                        02:10
 15.   Ship in the sky                               02:36
 16.   The biggest thing that man has ever done      02:20
 17.   Talking sailor (talking merchant marine)      03:05
 18.   New York town                                 02:38
 19.   Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet      02:32
 20.   Chisholm trail                                02:27
 21.   Sowing on the mountain                        02:26
 22.   Sally don't you grieve                        02:25
 23.   Philadelphia lawyer                           02:31
 24.   Little darling (at my window sad and lonely)  02:16
 25.   Baltimore to Washington                       02:56

       CD4 Ramblin' Round

 01.   Bed on the floor                              02:25
 02.   Dead or alive (Poor Lazarus)                  02:56
 03.   Billy the kid                                 02:04
 04.   Stackolee                                     03:00
 05.   Take a whiff on me                            02:44
 06.   Buffalo gals                                  02:36
 07.   Ride around little doggies                    02:59
       (I ride an old paint)
 08.   Talking fish blues                            03:06
 09.   Jesse James                                   03:01
 10.   Sinking of the reuben James                   03:09
 11.   When the great ship wnet down                 03:20
 12.   Stepstone                                     02:56
 13.   Hobo's lullaby                                02:26
 14.   Slipknot (Hangknot Slipknot)                  02:33
 15.   Go tell Aunt Rhody                            02:53
 16.   When the Yanks go marching in                 02:48
 17.   Keep my skillet good and greasy               02:47
 18.   Little black train                            02:32
 19.   Gypsy davy                                    02:52
 20.   Cowboy waltz                                  02:06
 21.   1913 massacre                                 03:38
 22.   Ludlow massacre                               03:30
 23.   Ramblin' round                                02:17
 24.   When the curfew blows                         01:46
 25.   New found land                                02:07

                                            Runtime  282:16 min
                                            Size     255,4 MB


Release Notes:

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 in Okemah,
Oklahoma, - October 3, 1967 in Queens, New York)
was an influential and prolific American folk
musician noted for his identification with the
common man, and for his abhorrence of fascism,
politicians, hypocrisy and economic exploitation.
He is best known for his song "This Land Is Your
Land". He is the father of musician Arlo Guthrie.

His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, who was
elected president in the same year.

At age 19, he left home for Texas, where he met and
married his first wife, Mary Jennings, with whom he
had three children. He used his musical talents to
earn money as a street musician and by doing small
gigs. He left Texas and his family with the coming
of the Dust Bowl era, following the Okies to
California. The poverty he saw on these early trips
affected him greatly, and many of his songs are
concerned with the conditions faced by the working
class. He frequently donated money made from his
music gigs and busking to help various peoples and
causes. A lifelong socialist and trade unionist, he
also contributed a regular column, "Woody Sez," to
the Daily Worker and People's World newspapers. He
was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW or Wobblies) for some years.

In the late 1930s, Guthrie achieved fame in Los
Angeles, California, with radio partner Maxine
"Lefty Lou" Crissman as a broadcast performer of
commercial "hillbilly" music and traditional folk
music. While appearing on radio station KFVD, a
commercial radio station owned by a populist-minded
New Deal Democrat, Guthrie also began to write and
perform some of the protest songs that would
eventually end up on Dust Bowl Ballads. In 1939,
Guthrie moved to New York City and was embraced by
its leftist and folk music community. He also made
perhaps his first real recordings: several hours of
conversation and songs, recorded by folklorist Alan
Lomax for the Library of Congress, as well as an
album, Dust Bowl Ballads, for Victor Records in
Camden, New Jersey. He began writing his
autobiography, Bound for Glory, which was completed
and published in 1943. It later became a motion
picture in 1976 (see See Also).

In February 1940, Guthrie wrote his most famous
song, "This Land Is Your Land." It was inspired in
part by his experiences during a cross-country trip
and in part by his distaste for the Irving Berlin
song "God Bless America", which he considered
unrealistic and complacent (he was tired of hearing
Kate Smith sing it on the radio). The melody may
have been based on the gospel song "When the
World's on Fire," best known as sung by the country
group The Carter Family around 1930. Guthrie
protested class inequality in the final verse:

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a
steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there
asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign there, It said "no
trespassing." [In another version, the sign reads
"Private Property"]
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!
That side was made for you and me.

These verses were sometimes omitted in subsequent
recordings, sometimes by Guthrie himself.

In May 1941, Guthrie was commissioned by the
Department of the Interior and its Bonneville Power
Administration to write songs about the Columbia
River and the building of the federal dams; the
best known of these are "Roll On Columbia" and
"Grand Coulee Dam." Around the same time, he joined
Pete Seeger in the legendary folk-protest group
Almanac Singers, with whom he toured the country,
and moved into the cooperative Almanac House in
Greenwich Village.

Guthrie originally wrote and sang anti-war songs
with the Almanac Singers, but after America's entry
into World War II he began writing anti-fascist
tunes. Guthrie famously wrote the slogan "This
Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar. He joined
the U.S. Merchant Marine, where he served with
fellow folk singer Cisco Houston, and then the U.S.
Army.

In 1944, Guthrie met Moses "Moe" Asch of Folkways
Records, for whom he first recorded "This Land Is
Your Land," along with hundreds of others over the
next few years.

He began courting Marjorie Mazia in 1942 and
married her in 1945 while on furlough from the
army. They moved into a house on Mermaid Avenue in
Coney Island, and together had four
childrenùincluding Cathy, his daughter who died at
age four in a fire, sending him into a serious
depression. Guthrie's son Arlo became a famous
singer-songwriter in his own right. During this
period, Guthrie wrote and recorded Songs to Grow on
for Mother and Child, a collection of children's
music, which includes the song "Goodnight Little
Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')," written when Arlo
was about nine years old.

At the same time Guthrie was still writing topical
songs. The 1948 crash of a plane carrying 28
Mexican farm workers from Oakland, California to be
deported back to Mexico inspired the poem "Deportee
(Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)." The poem was set to
music a decade later by Martin Hoffman, and the
song has since been covered by performers such as
Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, The Byrds,
Dolly Parton, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, The
Highwaymen and Woody's son Arlo Guthrie.

By the late 1940s, Guthrie's health was worsening
and his behavior becoming extremely erratic,
showing signs of chorea. He left his family,
travelling with Ramblin' Jack Elliott to
California, where he married for a third time and
had another child before eventually returning to
New York. He received various diagnoses (including
alcoholism and schizophrenia)[citation needed],
before he was finally discovered to be suffering
from the Huntington's disease, the genetic disorder
that had caused the death of his mother.

Guthrie was hospitalized at Greystone Park
Psychiatric Hospital from 1956 to 1961, at Brooklyn
State Hospital until 1966, and finally at Creedmoor
Mental Institution. Due to his failing health
during the final years of his life, he was unable
to enjoy the renewed interest in his work during
the 1960s folk revival.

Album Description
Four CD Proper box set featuring 99 of the Folk
legends' most beloved tracks. Woody Guthrie is
enshrined in American folklore, not only because of
his significant body of work but through his
considerable influence on successive generations.
This is the most comprehensive overview of the most
important part of his career to be found in one
set. Comes with 48 page booklet and is destined to
become one of the biggest selling Proper boxes.
2006.

Album Details
Woody Guthrie is the Original Folk Hero. It was
Guthrie Who, in the Thirties and Forties,
Transformed the Folk Ballad Into a Vehicle for
Social Protest and Observation. In So Doing, He
Paved the Way for Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and
a Host of Other Folk and Rock Songwriters who have
Been Moved by Conscience to Share Experiences and
Voice Opinions in a Forthright Manner. Guthrie
Wrote Literally Hundreds of Songs, Including Such
Revered Classics as "so Long, It's Been Good to
Know You," "Grand Coulee Dam," "i Ain't Got No
Home" and "Dust Bowl Refugees." All Included on
this 99 Track Four CD Set.

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