Dust Bowl Ballads, by Woody Guthrie

Dust Bowl Ballads

by Woody Guthrie

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1.	Talking Dust Bowl 02:45	buy track
2.	Blowin' Down This Road 03:05	buy track
3.	Do-Re-Mi 02:39	buy track
4.	Dust Cain't Kill Me 02:57	buy track
5.	Tom Joad 06:34	buy track
6.	The Great Dust Storm 03:24	buy track
7.	So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) 03:09	buy track
8.	Dust Bowl Refugee 03:14	buy track
9.	Dust Pneumonia Blues 02:46	buy track
10.	I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 02:50	buy track
11.	Vigilante Man 03:31	buy track

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Recorded in 1940, and later reissued by Folkways Recordings in 1950, Guthrie’s first album chronicles the American Dust Bowl through his prosaic style of talking blues. Using only guitar and vocals, the album follows the exodus of Midwesterners headed for California and mirrors both Guthrie’s own life and John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. Along the way, characters are forced into theft, murder, and unbearable hardship against a biblical backdrop of the American West. Hugely influential, Dust Bowl Ballads has been revered by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. In Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, Steinbeck wrote of Guthrie: "Harsh voiced and nasal, his guitar hanging like a tire iron on a rusty rim, there is nothing sweet about Woody, and there is nothing sweet about the songs he sings. But there is something more important for those who will listen. There is the will of the people to endure and fight against oppression. I think we call this the American spirit."

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released January 1, 1964

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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (/ˈɡʌθri/; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) — known as Woody Guthrie — was an American singer- songwriter and musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This machine kills fascists displayed on his guitar. ... more

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