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Woody Guthrie - Some Folk Audio CD

A fair review of the Woody Guthrie "Some Folk" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Woody Guthrie reviews here, or go back to the Woody Guthrie tabs.

Woody Guthrie Band: Woody Guthrie
Title: Some Folk
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Release Date: 2006-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Lost Train Blues 2: Railroad Blues 3: Old Joe Clark/Beaumont Rag 4: Greenback Dollar 5: Boll Weevil Song 6: So Long It's Been Good to Know You 7: Talking Dust Bowl Blues 8: Do-Re-Mi 9: Hard Times 10: Pretty Boy Floyd 11: They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave 12: Jolly Banker 13: I Ain't Got No Home 14: Dirty Overalls 15: Chain Around My Leg 16: Worried Man Blues 17: Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad 18: Dust Storm Disaster 19: Foggy Mountain Top 20: Dust Pneumonia Blues 21: California Blues 22: Dust Bowl Refugee 23: Will Rogers Highway 24: Los Angeles New Year's Flood 25: The Great Dust Storm 26: Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues 27: Pretty Boy Floyd 28: Dusty Old Dust 29: Dust Bowl Blues 30: Blowin' Down this Road 31: Tom Joad Part 1 32: Tom Joad Part 2 33: Do Re Mi 34: Dust Bowl Refugee 35: I Ain't Got No Home 36: Vigilante Man 37: Dust Can't Kill Me 38: Dust Pneumonia Blues 39: Oregon Trail 40: Roll On Columbia 41: New Found Land 42: Talking Columbia 43: Roll Columbia Roll 44: Columbia's Waters 45: Ramblin' Blues 46: It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song 47: Hard Travelin' 48: The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done 49: Grand Coulee Dam 50: Song Of The Coulee Dam 51: Jackhammer Blues 52: Washington Talkin' Blues 53: Ramblin' Round 54: Pastures Of Plenty 55: The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done 56: End Of The Line 57: I Ride An Old Paint 58: House Of The Rising Sun 59: Hard Ain't It Hard 60: The Dodger Song 61: Ida Red 62: Muleskinner Blues 63: What Are We Waiting On 64: Ship In the Sky 65: The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done 66: Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine) 67: New York Town 68: Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet 69: Chisolm Trail 70: Sowing On The Mountain 71: Sally Don't You Grieve 72: Philadelphia Lawyer 73: Little Darling (At My Window Sad And Lonely) 74: Baltimore To Washington 75: Bed On The Floor 76: Dead Or Alive (Poor Lazarus) 77: Billy The Kid 78: Stackolee 79: Take A Whiff On Me 80: Buffalo Gals 81: Ride Around Little Doggies (I Ride An Old Paint) 82: Talking Fish Blues 83: Jesse James 84: Sinking Of The Reuben James 85: When The Great Ship Went Down 86: Stepstone 87: Hobo's Lullaby 88: Slipknot (Hangknot Slipknot) 89: Go Tell Aunt Rhody 90: When the Yanks Go Marching In 91: Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy 92: Little Black Train 93: Gypsy Davy 94: Cowboy Waltz 95: 1913 Massacre 96: Ludlow Massacre 97: Ramblin' Round 98: When the Curfew Blows 99: New Found Land

Rivals the Asch Recordings box set


Considering that the Library of Congress box set sells for $36 alone, I'd say this collection is a steal. This box set contains everything on the Library of Congress box set except four songs, the entire "Dust Bowl Ballads" recording, the entire "Columbia River Collection," most of the Almanac Singers' "Sod Buster Ballads" album, and 38 of the 105 songs on the Asch Recordings box set. It contains almost as much music as the Asch Recordings set - 99 songs as opposed to 105 - and it spans a larger portion of Woody's career. It's true that it doesn't contain any material from his children's recordings, but you won't find many of those songs on the Asch set either.

The packaging is mediocre, as you'd expect from Proper. The booklet contains a lengthy biography of Woody but it's written so badly it's exhausting to read. Still, you can't beat this collection for the money.


Extensive Source of great Folksongs
Hard to be belive that it's possible release such a quality well-researched collection at this price. Another great release from Proper Records.

The box contains most of the material recorded and released by Woody Guthrie during 1940-45. The sound quality is quite good, but of course uneven. Interesting that the best sounding recordings are the earliest from the album "Dust Bowl Ballads".

I would have liked to hear some of Guthrie's children songs recorded in the late forties released on the albums "Nursery Days" and "Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child", but fans will have to get these recording on seperate releases. Serious illness made it impossible for Guthrie to record during the last years of his life and these children songs were among the last recordings he was able to do.

Musically the this is an impressive collection and extensive source of great folk-songs. Moreover there is a a fine well-researched 48 pages booklet with biography and discography. Highly recommendable.


Odd Twist
But even though it's not listed on Amazon, it's on there -- as the 26th song on Disc 4. I found it odd that a 4-disc collection of Woody Guthrie wouldn't have This Land Is Your Land.
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deserves a 10 on a scale of 1-5...
grab this 4 disc properbox & the muddy waters 4 disc properbox 'king of chicago blues', load them into your cd player, grab an adult beverage & sit back & hit play. . it don't get better. .


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