Cat. No. 2800: WOODY GUTHRIE ~ WORKING MAN BLUES. COLLECTABLES COL-CD-5095. (IMPORT).

WOODROW WILSON GUTHRIE HAS LONG BEEN REVERED AS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN AMERICAN MUSIC. HIS WORK FOCUSED ON THEMES OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM AND ANTI-FACISM. HE INSPIRED SEVERAL GENERATIONS BOTH POLITICALLY AND MUSICALLY WITH SONGS SUCH AS “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND”. GUTHRIE WROTE HUNDREDS OF COUNTRY, FOLK AND IMPROVISED WORKS. HIS ALBUM OF SONGS ABOUT THE DUST BOWL PERIOD IN WHICH HE GREW UP WAS INCLUDED IN MOJO MAGAZINES LIST OF ‘100 RECORDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD’ AND MANY OF HIS RECORDINGS ARE ARCHIVED IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. THIS ALBUM IS A REISSUE OF THE ALBUM RELEASED BY THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK MUSIC. ALL TRACKS HAVE BEEN METICULOUSLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL 78 RPM DISCS AND CAN BE HEARD BY FANS OF FOLK MUSIC LIKE NEVER BEFORE. A TRULY IMPORTANT PIECE OF AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY ****

TRACK LISTING: Gypsy Davy / More Pretty Girls Than One / Pretty Boy Floyd / Poor Boy / Hey Lolly Lolly / Lonesome Day / John Henry / Rangers Command / Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This Way / Buffalo Skinners / Hard, Ain’t It Hard / Worried Man Blues.

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