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Woody Guthrie: My Dusty Road 1 - Woody's "Greatest" Hits

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Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2009
Time:
 42:34
Category: Folk
Producer(s): Moses Asch, Herbert Harris
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Media type: CD
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) - 2:44
[2] Going Down The Road [I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way] (Woody Guthrie) - 2:56
[3] Talking Sailor (Woody Guthrie) - 3:06
[4] Philadelphia Lawyer (Woody Guthrie) - 2:32
[5] Hard Travellin' (Woody Guthrie) - 2:38
[6] Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie) - 2:41
[7] The Sinking Of The Reuben James (Almanac Singers/Pete Seeger/Woody Guthrie) - 3:25
[8] Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - 3:06
[9] Grand Coulee Dam (Woody Guthrie) - 2:09
[10] Nine Hundred Miles (Woody Guthrie) - 2:51
[11] Going Down The Road [I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way] (Woody Guthrie) - 2:57
[12] My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky) (Woody Guthrie) - 2:33
[13] Bad Repetation (Woody Guthrie) - 2:50

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Woody Guthrie - Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin

Cisco Houston - Guitar on [2,5,10]
Sonny Terry - Harmonica on [2,5,10]

Herbert Harris - Producer, Engineer
Moses Asch - Producer, Engineer
Geirg Ingrem - Mastering
Bill Nowlin - Reissue Producer
Michael Creamer - Reissue Producer
Scott Billington - Reissue Producer, Art Direction
Doug Pomeroy - Remastering, Transferring
Scott Billongton - Art Direction
Tiffany Loiselle - Artwork
Nancy Given - Design
Lester Balog - Photography
Ed Cray - Liner Notes
Bill Nowlin - Liner Notes

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2009 LP Rounder Records - 11661-1163-1
2009 CD Rounder Records - 11661-1163-2

Recorded in 1944.

Original recordings produced and recorded by Moses Asch and Herbert Harris for Stinson Records.
Transfer of metal masters, audio restoration and CD mastering by Doug Pomeroy.
Photography and art research by Tiffany Loiselle, The Woody Guthrie Archives.
Art direction by Scott Billington.
Design by Nancy Given.
Cover Photo: Woody Guthrie, 1943. Courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Archives.



My Dusty Road is a 4 CD Box containing 54 tracks and a Book. It is a collection of the newly discovered Stinson master discs. It was released by Rounder Records in 2009.

According to the liner notes from Ed Cray and Bill Nowlin the master discs were found in 2003 in the basement of the Brooklyn apartment of Lucia Sutera. In June 2003 the Boston music manager Micheal Creamer was informed by Jim Farrow that he has got contact to Mrs. Sutera, who stored the discs for almost 60 years in her basement. She was the wife of a son of Herbert Harris (Music Manager), who owed Stinson Records in the 1940s. In that time he works together with Moses Asch the founder of Folkway Records in New York City. Because of World War 2 and the limitations of shellac, Asch needs a partner with capability to get the material. Finally the recordings of artists like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and The Almanac Singers where released under three different labels: Asch, Stinson and Disc. When Moses Asch went bankrupt in 1947 with the Disc label some of the master discs fell to Harris as part of the bankruptcy settlement. In the years later Asch released the recordings of his artists under the Label Folkways. He also reissued several of the older recordings on his new label. But he could not use the Master discs which were released here for the first time.

The recordings represented in these Box were made in April and May 1944 in New York City. They were cut partly on aluminum discs or glass masters. The masters which we got here were never released on any Folkway or Smithsonian Folkways album. The offer a much clearer sound than the older compilations of Guthrie's recordings of that time.

The Box consiststs of 4 CD's:

    1. Woody's "Greatest" Hits
    2. Woody's Roots
    3. Woody the Agitator
    4. Woody, Cisco, and Sonny Jam the Blues, Hollers, and Dances



A chance to grasp the full essence of the man behind the legend.

In April 1944, the then little-known Woody Guthrie – back from doing his bit for the war effort with the US Merchant Marines – made a marathon series of recordings in New York for Moe Asch and Herbert Harris, respective heads of the Folkways and Stinson record labels.

In five days he recorded 125 tracks, but while Guthrie and some of the most celebrated songs from those sessions – This Land Is Your Land, Hard Travelin’ and Pretty Boy Floyd included – went on to fuel the folk revival that subsequently shaped American youth culture, those original recordings disappeared, presumed lost forever. But in 2003, a Sicilian woman in Brooklyn investigated the cardboard barrels that had long lain undisturbed in her basement and chanced upon the metal master tapes of those long-lost 1944 recordings.

Condensed into a four-CD set of 54 songs, inventively packaged with a 68-page booklet, what immediately hits you is the startling clarity. There’s none of the graininess that invariably accompanies such ancient discoveries – and afflicts many of the compilations previously issued in Woody’s name – and it sounds as if he’s playing right in front of your nose. To most people now, Woody Guthrie is an almost mythical figure canonised by Dylan, Springsteen et al but, perhaps for the first time, here’s the chance to grasp the full essence of the man behind the legend and the authenticity that makes him such an enduringly influential folk music giant.

The four CDs are thematically differentiated – Woody’s Roots features many of the old blues and country songs that coloured his Oklahoma upbringing; Woody the Agitator includes union songs and other material that laid the foundations for the protest movement; Woody, Cisco & Sonny is a good-time blast with kindred spirits Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry; and Woody’s Greatest Hits is mostly stuff we know already. Each is magnificent but the icing on the cake is six previously unheard songs, including the mighty Tear the Fascists Down.

If anyone had any doubts about the continuing relevance of Woody Guthrie, this blows them clean out of the water.

Colin Irwin (2009) - BBC Review
 

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