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Woody Guthrie The Asch Recordings, Volumes 1-4 (4-CD Box Set)

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CD Details

  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Released: August 17, 1999
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 12/17/99, p.84
"...will provide years of pleasure....conveys something we no longer possess; a cogent picture of America and its promise..." - Rating: A

Tracks on Disc 1:

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

Tracks on Disc 2:

  • 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.Balitmore to Washington
  • 7.Rubber Dolly
  • 8.21 Years
  • 9.Sowing on the Mountain
  • 10.Bed on the Floor
  • 11.Take a Whiff 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

Tracks on Disc 3:

  • 1.Hard Travelin'
  • 2.Farmer-Labor Train
  • 3.Howdjadoo
  • 4.Ship in the Sky
  • 5.I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  • 6.Mean Talking Blues
  • 7.Better World a-Comin'
  • 8.Miss Pavlichencko
  • 9.So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (WWII Version)
  • 10.New Found Land
  • 11.Oregon Trail
  • 12.Vigilante Man
  • 13.1913 Massacre
  • 14.Talking Columbia
  • 15.Two Good Men
  • 16.Sally, Don't You Grieve
  • 17.Talking Sailor
  • 18.What Are We Waiting On?
  • 19.Railroad Blues
  • 20.Ludlow Massacre
  • 21.Ladies Auxiliary
  • 22.Miner's Song
  • 23.When the Yanks Go Marching In
  • 24.Union Maid (Excerpt)
  • 25.Rubaiyat
  • 26.The Many and the Few
  • 27.Hanukkah Dance

Tracks on Disc 4:

  • 1.Ranger's Command
  • 2.Buffalo Skinners
  • 3.Billy the Kid
  • 4.Cowboy Waltz
  • 5.Pretty Boy Floyd
  • 6.Along in the Sun and the Rain
  • 7.Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  • 8.Froggie Went a-Courtin'
  • 9.Buffalo Gals
  • 10.I Ride an Old Paint
  • 11.Dead or Alive
  • 12.Slipknot
  • 13.Cocaine Blues
  • 14.Tell Aunt Rhody
  • 15.Chisholm Trail
  • 16.Stewball
  • 17.Wild Cyclone
  • 18.Train Blues
  • 19.Red River Valley
  • 20.Fastest of Ponies
  • 21.Stewball
  • 22.Snow Deer
  • 23.When the Curfew Blows
  • 24.Little Darling
  • 25.Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
  • 26.Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty

Product Description:

Also available separately as Folkways 40100, 40101, 40102 and 40103.
Producer: Moses Asch.
Compilation producer: Jeff Place, Guy Logsdon.
Recorded in New York, New York between 1944 and 1949. Includes liner notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
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 Recordings, Vol. 3, and Buffalo Skinners: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4) into one box, Smithsonian/Folkways presents a fairly complete overview of Guthrie's career. The collection features deep forays into his union songs, political and social issue songs, cowboy and outlaw songs, and early country and frontier ballads, with each CD separated into specific themes. The liner notes are intelligently written but never dry, going through track by track, bringing to light Guthrie's warm contributions to American folksongs. In listening to the set as a whole, the only question left is "where is Guthrie's comedy album?" His biting humor on songs like "Talking Hard Work," "Ladies Auxiliary," "Howdjadoo," and "Mean Talking Blues" tell of a wry and witty side of the activist that would fit alongside his topical children's albums nicely. Each of these CDs are available individually, but purchasing the box set gives the listener a more well-rounded experience and makes more sense economically. ~ Zac Johnson

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