Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads

a whole album about dust. how fuckin' cool is that? very cool! woody was troo and kult. i love this record. originally it was a box of 3 78s, but i don't have those. i have the nice purple label rca copy from 1964. you should buy this album! you'll love it. soooooooooooooooo dusty. you could probably find it somewhere.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I have read a considerable amount about these recordings but never heard them.

I also find this recommendation worthwile.

have this on cd. it's great

tried doing a GIS for the copy i have, can't seem to find it. the one that comes up most frequently isn't the one i have. i like mine better - there's this dark gray dust storm going on w/ "dust bowl ballads" written in big red western saloon-style font across the top

"Talking Dust Bowl Blues" is some seriously funny/amazing stuff. I love "Do Re Mi," too.

Folkways records got in hot water when they reissued this originally.

I tried to start a woody guthrie POO thread on the sandbox

I think one person posted "this land is your land" and it died

good luck scott

now I have "vigilante man" running thru my head

and this

what was their names, tell me what was their names
did you have a friend on the good reuben james?

Great recordings, but the only Woody I have.
I love the story of when Woody got a job making signs and he was painting "Sugar." Some guy walks by and says, "Hey Woody, that don’t look like an S!"
Woody looks at his work, scratches his head and says, "Well then ... how’d you know it was an ‘S’?"

I'm fond of Woody Guthrie. But he is a difficult one for the record collector - so many compilations, labels etc. I went the box-set compilation route with the 4-disc Asch Recordings box-set (which is very lovely).

But I like the idea of this being an album, a set of coherent songs. Maybe I should invest in it. I don't think many of the songs are on the Asch box.

I knew Phil Ochs version of Tom Joad, Joe Hill, before I heard the Guthrie versions. It's amazing.

this is the only Guthrie i own, i got it really cheap in a junk shop cos the sleeve was really tatty but the vinyl inside was in great condition. such a good record though.

Has anyone got the new Guthrie box-set? Little new material, but apparently taken from newly discovered metal masters and a big sound improvement.

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/graphics/00000001/My_Dusty_Road_4.jpg

Reasonable price (about $55 on Amazon.com for 4 discs). Decent review on allmusic.com: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfyxzt0ld6e~T1

I'm tempted, simply because I'm a sucker for these delightfully packaged things...

i'm a sucker for that kinda thing too. it looks fun ... But I haven't heard much talk of it, in terms of music ... I mean, it's good, obviously ...

I haven't checked, but I've probably got 90% of this. So purchase depends on sucker-dom and sound improvement.. Might try to resist. But the price is low!

yeah, sound improvement isn't the biggest bait for Guthrie -- I mean, I'm not looking for crystal clear recordings when I listen to him! As the name of the thread suggests, there should be some dust on there! But maybe if I heard this new stuff, I'd change my mind.

I should add that the official Woody Guthrie people are offering the 4 volumes of this box on vinyl for $20 each.

http://woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TWGS&Category_Code=NRS

Should I throw $45 down for the folkways 64 issue of this album, along with album "Poor Boy," both in stellar shape, with shrink (like that really matters but for investment incentive)??

Poor Boy is also an original Folkways label

this was the first album i ever owned as my own actual album of my own. i won it at a weird church raffle that was going down at this campground we were picnicking at in virginia, must have been the summer of '75, 76 maybe? i got my dad to buy me a ticket for 50 cents, i think. you could win a bunch of different stuff, including a bicycle and a watermelon, but if i wasn't gonna win the bicycle, i wanted the record. i dunno why. it look intersting.

when i won, i was kind of embarrassed and felt like they would hate me because i didn't belong to their church group and was a heathen interloper, but i went up to get it anyway and they were cool. i listened to the SHIT out of that album for many years. i can still sing a lot of it from beginning to end from memory, like "talking dust bowl blues" (perhaps my favorite song in all the world), "do re mi" and a bunch of "tom joad". plus "dusty old dust".

it looked like this:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1786307-1257514285.jpeg

so rad

So, yes?

I wish I had a childhood connection to a record I could be proud of.

oh hell yes. my whole family loved that record. it brought us together as a people. after its passing, we were lost. but then graceland came out and everything was okay again.

Wow! I guess if it meant that much to you than me wondering whether I'm paying 5-10 too much is barely an issue to you! It really is a fantastic album. Do you have any thoughts on Poor Boy?

no, sorry, don't know that one nearly as well, though i do like "mean talking blues"

WG's centennial on Saturday.

...and so in Coney tomw night, they're showing the Woody biopic w/ david Carradine, preceded by Billy Bragg and Steve Earle playing.

http://www.coneyislandfunguide.com/Events/Coney-Island-Flicks-at-the-Beach--Bound-for-Glory_7_14_2012-3342.htm

would go to that -- as biopics go, i think it's pretty solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk

Happy 100th birthday Woody!

up there in Heaven tearing the fascists down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mw193I7Ttk

not a song he penned but I like this recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBso-UG8R_E

Great doc on iplayer atm. Looks like some nice person has put the whole doc on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnXnFgnkUc

Happy Birthday!!!

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/woody_guthries_fan_letter_to_john_cage_and_alan_hovhaness_1947.html

http://www.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/guthrie-to-cage.jpeg

warm fuzzies

favorite just-intonation cover version of "I Ain't Got No Home": Ellen Fullman on the Long String Instrument

http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=5fea44e
http://www.discogs.com/Ellen-Fullman-and-Konrad-Sprenger-Ort/master/65504