American radical patriot

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Woody Guthrie remains an iconic figure of America's folk heritage who continues to inspire new generations both musically and socially. Rounder offers in a deluxe limited edition box set all the material recorded "in service" for the U.S. government during World War II. Here are the musical recordings and interviews collected for the Library of Congress by Alan Lomax published for the first time in their entirety. A vast panorama illuminating both a strong transitional period in American history and the prolific and multifaceted life of Woody Guthrie. INCLUDED IN THE BOX SET - 6 CDs with over 85 songs, unreleased demos, and other radio recordings - 1 DVD "Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie & the Bonneville Power Administration" - 1 78 RPM record - side A Bob Dylan performing "VD City" side B an unreleased track - 1 60-page book written by the co-founder of Rounder Records, Bill Nowlin, describing the complex relationship between Guthrie and his country as a "radical patriot" (also available on CD1 as a 258-page .pdf file, additionally offering the transcription of all the tracks!).

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Product information

  • Album American radical patriot
  • Artist Woody Guthrie
  • Genre Pop, Pop internationale
  • Release date 2013-12-02
  • Label UNIVERSAL
  • Distributor UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE
  • Format CD (coffret)
  • EAN 0011661913820
  • Number of discs 7
  • Number of tracks 143

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Disc 1

  1. Lost train blues
  2. Growing up in Oklahoma
  3. The railroad blues
  4. More talk of growing up in Okemah
  5. The gang of kids Woody hung around with
  6. Rye whiskey
  7. Some old-time square dance tunes
  8. Old Joe Clark
  9. Alan Lomax asks for a tune
  10. Beaumont rag
  11. Alan asks for another one
  12. Green valley waltz
  13. The troubles and tragedies that fractured Woody's family in Okemah
  14. Greenback dollar
  15. Lomax asks about the boll weevil
  16. Boll weevil
  17. Jailhouse songs
  18. The midnight special
  19. When the great dust storm struck

Disc 2

  1. The end of the world
  2. So long, it's been good to know yuh
  3. Dust storms devastate the farmland
  4. Talking dust bowl
  5. Migrants arrive in California
  6. Do re mi
  7. Hard times
  8. Songs about hard times
  9. Bring back to me my blue-eyed boy
  10. Songs about outlaws
  11. Billy the kid
  12. Billy the kid and pretty boy Floyd
  13. Pretty boy Floyd
  14. Jesse James
  15. Jesse James and his boys
  16. Takin' it from the rich and givin' it to the poor
  17. Jesus Christ
  18. Songs about bankers
  19. The jolly banker
  20. Another song about the depredations of the bankers
  21. I ain't got no home
  22. Hundreds of thousands made homeless
  23. Dirty overhauls
  24. The story of Mary Fagan
  25. Mary Fagan
  26. The origins of the song

Disc 3

  1. The origins of the song (continued)
  2. Chain around my leg
  3. Let's sing some blues
  4. Nine hundred miles
  5. Worried man blues
  6. About the "worried man blues"
  7. Lonesome valley
  8. Railroad blues
  9. Walkin' down that railroad line
  10. Interlude
  11. Goin' down the Frisco line
  12. Riding the rails
  13. Going down the road
  14. Interlude
  15. Seven cent cotton
  16. Wish I'd stayed in the wagon yard
  17. Interlude
  18. Dust bowl refugee
  19. Contractors duping the desperate
  20. The dust storm of april 14, 1935
  21. Dust storm disaster
  22. Foggy mountain top

Disc 4

  1. Breathing in dust
  2. Dust pneumonia blues
  3. Leaving the dust bowl
  4. Califonia blues
  5. Jimmie Rogers
  6. Migrants arriving in Califonia
  7. Do re mi
  8. Refugees pouring into Califonia
  9. Dust bowl refugee
  10. Califonia as one of the 48 states
  11. Will Rogers highway
  12. The flood that took over 100 lives
  13. Los Angeles new year's flood
  14. A good horse
  15. Stewball
  16. Interlude
  17. Stagger Lee
  18. Interlude
  19. One dime blues
  20. Interlude
  21. Git along little dogies
  22. Interlude
  23. The trail to Mexico
  24. Gypsy Davy
  25. Introducing an old song
  26. Hard ain't it hard

Disc 5

  1. Introduction (the BPA recordings)
  2. Pastures of plenty (the BPA recordings)
  3. Oregon trail (the BPA recordings)
  4. Roll on Columbia (the BPA recordings)
  5. New found land (the BPA recordings)
  6. Talking Columbia (the BPA recordings)
  7. Roll, Columbia, roll (the BPA recordings)
  8. Columbia's waters (the BPA recordings)
  9. Ramblin' blues (the BPA recordings)
  10. It takes a married man to sing a worried song (the BPA recordings)
  11. Hard travelin' (the BPA recordings)
  12. The biggest thing that man has ever done (the BPA recordings)
  13. Jackhammer blues (the BPA recordings)
  14. Song of the Grand Coulee Dam (the BPA recordings)
  15. Grand Coulee Dam (the BPA recordings)
  16. Washington talkin' blues (the BPA recordings)
  17. Ramblin' round (the BPA recordings)
  18. Pastures of plenty (the BPA recordings)
  19. End of my line (the BPA recordings)
  20. Sinking of the Reuben James (war effort songs)
  21. Takin' it easy (war effort songs)
  22. Reckless talk (war effort songs)

Disc 6

  1. The girl in the red, white and blue (war effort songs)
  2. Labor for victory (war effort songs)
  3. Farmerlabor train (war effort songs)
  4. Jazz in America, n°93 (war effort songs)
  5. Whoopy ti-yi, get along, mr hitler (war effort songs)
  6. Jazz in America, n°116 (war effort songs)
  7. Sally, don't you grieve (war effort songs)
  8. Narrator (war effort songs)
  9. Dig a hole (war effort songs)
  10. VD avenue (the V.D. song demos)
  11. Intro (the V.D. song demos)
  12. The veedee blues (the V.D. song demos)
  13. Intro (the V.D. song demos)
  14. Blessed and curst (the V.D. song demos)
  15. A case of VD (the V.D. song demos)
  16. VD seaman's letter (the V.D. song demos)
  17. VD city (the V.D. song demos)
  18. VD day (the V.D. song demos)
  19. A child of VD (the V.D. song demos)
  20. VD gunner's blues (the V.D. song demos)
  21. Brooklyne towne (the V.D. song demos)
  22. Narrator "the lonesome traveler" (the V.D. song demos)
  23. The biggest thing that man has ever done (the V.D. song demos)
  24. The old cracked looking glass (the V.D. song demos)
  25. Hard times in the Durant jail (the V.D. song demos)
  26. Empty boxcar, my home (the V.D. song demos)
  27. The biggest thing that man has ever done (the V.D. song demos)

Disc 7

  1. Dvd