Woody Guthrie American Radical Patriot 7-CD Box Set + Vinyl
Artist: Woody Guthrie
Book Author: Bill Nowlin
Woody Guthrie was a colossal figure of America’s folk heritage, whose simple, lyrically powerful songs inspired generations both musically and socially. In honor of this legendary figure, Rounder Records is proud to present this fully comprehensive limited edition boxed set collection of material recorded "in service" of the U.S. Government.
Here are Guthrie’s complete Library of Congress interviews and musical performances recorded by Alan Lomax (released in their entirety for the first time); his songs written while employed by the Bonneville Power Administration, including a previously unreleased, minor key version of "Pastures of Plenty"; a set of previously unheard home demonstration recordings of songs made for a late 1940s public health service VD education program; three radio skits, including two for the Office of War Information during the Second World War; and a number of other radio performances made in support of the war effort. Anchoring the set is the 60-page booklet written by Rounder Records co-founder and Executive Producer, Bill Nowlin, which discloses Guthrie’s complex relationship with his country as an “American Radical Patriot” (also available as full-length 258-page PDF). It's a sweeping overview both of a transitional period in American history, and of the prolific, multi-faceted life of Woody Guthrie.
DISC 1 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. LOST TRAIN BLUES
2. Growing up in Oklahoma
3. THE RAILROAD BLUES
4. More talk of growing up in Okemah
5. The gang of kids Woody hung around with
6. RYE WHISKEY
8. OLD JOE CLARK
9. Alan Lomax asks for a tune
10. BEAUMONT RAG
11. Alan asks for another one
12. GREEN VALLEY WALTZ (a.k.a.) Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
13. The troubles and tragedies that fractured Woody’s family in Okemah
14. GREENBACK DOLLAR
15. Lomax asks about the boll weevil
16. BOLL WEEVIL
17. Jailhouse songs
18. THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
19. When the great dust storm struck
DISC 2 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. The end of the world
2. SO LONG, IT’S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH
3. Dust storms devastate the farmland
4. TALKING DUST BOWL
5. Migrants arrive in California
6. DO RE MI
7. HARD TIMES
8. Songs about hard times
9. BRING BACK TO ME MY BLUE-EYED BOY
10. Songs about outlaws
11. BILLY THE KID
12. Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd
13. PRETTY BOY FLOYD
14. Jesse James
15. JESSE JAMES AND HIS BOYS
16. Takin’ it from the rich and givin’ it to the poor
17. JESUS CHRIST
18. Songs about bankers
19. THE JOLLY BANKER
20. Another song about the depredations of the bankers
21. I AIN’T GOT NO HOME
22. Hundreds of thousands made homeless
23. DIRTY OVERHAULS
24. The story of Mary Fagan
25. MARY FAGAN
26. The origins of the song
Disc 3 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. Origins of the song, continued
2. CHAIN AROUND MY LEG
3. Let’s sing some blues
4. NINE HUNDRED MILES
5. WORRIED MAN BLUES
6. About the “Worried Man Blues”
7. LONESOME VALLEY
8. Railroad blueses
9. WALKIN’ DOWN THAT RAILROAD LINE
10. Interlude
11. GOIN’ DOWN THE FRISCO LINE
12. Riding the rails
13. GOING DOWN THE ROAD
14. Interlude
15. SEVEN CENT COTTON
16. WISH I’D STAYED IN THE WAGON YARD
17. Interlude
18. DUST BOWL REFUGEE
19. Contractors duping the desperate
20. The dust storm of April 14, 1935
21. DUST STORM DISASTER / FOGGY MOUNTAIN TOP*
*Foggy Mountain Top listed as separate track # 22 in package liner notes
Disc 4 ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. Breathing in dust
2. DUST PNEUMONIA BLUES
3. Leaving the Dust Bowl
4. CALIFORNIA BLUES
5. Jimmie Rodgers
6. Migrants arriving in California
7. DO RE MI
8. Refugees pouring into California
9. DUST BOWL REFUGEE
10. California as one of the 48 states
11. WILL ROGERS HIGHWAY
12. The flood that took over 100 lives
13. LOS ANGELES NEW YEAR’S FLOOD
14. A good horse
15. STEWBALL
16. Interlude
17. STAGGER LEE
18. Interlude
19. ONE DIME BLUES
20. Interlude
21. GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES
22. Interlude
23. THE TRAIL TO MEXICO
24. GYPSY DAVY
25. Introducing an old song
26. HARD AIN’T IT HARD
THE BPA RECORDINGS + WAR EFFORT SONGS
Disc 5 ~ TRACK LISTING:
THE BPA RECORDINGS
1. Introduction
2. PASTURES OF PLENTY
3. OREGON TRAIL
4. ROLL ON COLUMBIA
5. NEW FOUND LAND
6. TALKING COLUMBIA
7. ROLL, COLUMBIA, ROLL
8. COLUMBIA’S WATERS
9. RAMBLIN’ BLUES
10. IT TAKES A MARRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG
11. HARD TRAVELIN’
12. THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE
(a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
13. JACKHAMMER BLUES
14. SONG OF THE GRAND COULEE DAM
15. GRAND COULEE DAM
16. WASHINGTON TALKIN’ BLUES
17. RAMBLIN’ ROUND
18. PASTURES OF PLENTY
19. END OF MY LINE
WAR EFFORT SONGS
20. SINKING OF THE REUBEN JAMES
21. TAKIN’ IT EASY
22. RECKLESS TALK
WAR EFFORT SONGS + THE V.D. SONG DEMOS + “THE LONESOME TRAVELER”
Disc 6 ~ TRACK LISTING:
WAR EFFORT SONGS
1. THE GIRL IN THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
2. Labor for Victory
3. FARMER-LABOR TRAIN
4. Jazz in America, No. 93
5. WHOOPY TI-YI, GET ALONG, MR. HITLER
6. Jazz in America, No. 116
7. SALLY, DON’T YOU GRIEVE
8. Narrator
9. DIG A HOLE
THE V.D. SONG DEMOS
10. VD AVENUE
11. Intro
12. THE VEEDEE BLUES
13. Intro
14. BLESSED AND CURST
15. A CASE OF VD
16. VD SEAMAN’S LETTER
17. VD CITY
18. VD DAY
19. A CHILD OF VD
20. V.D. GUNNER’S BLUES
21. BROOKLYNE TOWNE
22. Narrator
“THE LONESOME TRAVELER”
23. THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE
(a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
24. THE OLD CRACKED LOOKING GLASS
25. HARD TIMES IN THE DURANT JAIL
26. EMPTY BOXCAR, MY HOME
27. THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE
DVD: ROLL ON COLUMBIA
THE SONGS ~ TRACK LISTING:
1. OREGON TRAIL
2. IT TAKES A MARRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG
3. HARD TRAVELIN’
4. GRAND COULEE DAM
5. ROLL ON, COLUMBIA
6. THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE (a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
7. JACKHAMMER BLUES
8. PASTURES OF PLENTY
9. TALKING COLUMBIA
10. RAMBLIN’ ROUND
11. WASHINGTON TALKIN’ BLUES
78 RPM RECORD
VD CITY
Sung by Bob Dylan, 1961 Minnesota hotel recordings
“VD City” by Bob Dylan appears courtesy of Columbia Records and Under License From The Sony Music Commercial Music Group, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE (a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
1951 home recording
Rounder Records. 2013.
