Pastures of Plenty

Artist: Woody Guthrie Label: Prism Platinum Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 501429342721 EAN: 0501429342721 ASIN: B00000G1IF Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

1. Pastures Of Plenty
2. House Of The Rising Sun
3. Vigilante Man
4. Do Re Mi
5. Sinking Of The Reuben James
6. John Henry
7. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
8. I Ain't Got No Home
9. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
10. Blowin' Down This Road Feeling Bad
11. Grand Coulee Dam
12. Gypsy Davy
13. Ramblin' Round Your City
14. Ye Shall Be Free
15. Pretty Boy Floyd
16. New York Town
17. Worried Man Blues
18. Bury Me Beneath The Willow
19. Old Time Religion
20. Ezekiel Say The Wheel
21. Dust Pneumonia Blues
22. Cumberland Gap
23. Philadelphia Lawyer
24. Tom Joad (Part 2)
25. So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust)
26. This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

well worth a long and thoughtful listen.......2002-08-31

Probably remembered most for his song "This Land is Your Land," Guthrie was not always so sanguine about America. More characteristic are feelings of anger, sadness, and a kind of grim humor. There are timeless songs: "House of the Rising Sun" and "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You." But most of the songs on this CD recall the bleak days of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The bleakest in the collection is surely "Dust Pneumonia Blues."

The 1930s are also remembered with tributes to "Grand Coulee Dam" and "Pretty Boy Floyd." Taken together, these songs are the broken-down voice for a generation of poor, jobless, and uprooted, the people Steinbeck celebrated in "Grapes of Wrath." Listening to this CD, you are reminded of how seldom a voice like Guthrie's has made itself heard in America. This is a collection of songs well worth a long and thoughtful listen.

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