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Woody Guthrie: My Dusty Road 4 - Woody, Cisco, and Sonny Jam The Blues, Hollers, and Dances
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Rounder Records |
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2009 |
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49:56
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Folk |
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Moses Asch, Herbert Harris |
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CD
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| Purchase date: |
2012 |
| Price in €: |
1,00 |
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[1] Train Breakdown (Sonny Terry) - 2:31
[2] Do You Ever Think Of Me? [aka. At My Window] (Woody Guthrie) - 3:05
[3] Guitar Rag (arr. Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:19
[4] Square Dance Medley [Cripple Creek / Buffalo Gals / Old Joe Clark /
Red Wing / Ida Red / Chilly Winds / Sandy Land] (arr. Houston, Terry
& Guthrie / Traditional) - 3:50
[5] Guitar Breakdown (Unknown Artist) - 2:20
[6] Raincrow Bill (arr. Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:26
[7] Ain't Nobody's Business (arr. Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:42
[8] Stepstone (Woody Guthrie) - 2:52
[9] Ezekiel Saw The Wheel (arr. Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:42
[10] Bile Them Cabbage Down (arr. Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:46
[11] Danville Girl (Woody Guthrie) - 3:42
[12] Guitar Blues (Unknown Artist) - 2:55
[13] Brown's Ferry Blues (arr. Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:45
[14] More Pretty Girls Than One (Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie / Traditional) - 2:16
[15] Sonny's Flight (Sonny Terry) - 2:57
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Woody Guthrie - Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin
Cisco Houston - Guitar on [2,4,5,7-15], Harmony Vocals on [2,8-11,13-15]
Sonny Terry - Harmonica on [1-4,6,7-11,13]
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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