Dustbowl Ballads

Dustbowl Ballads Artist: Woody Guthrie
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743215783923
EAN: 0743215783923
ASIN: B000024ZK7


Release Date: 1999-12-15

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Tracks:

  1. Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
  2. I Ain't Got No Home
  3. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
  4. Vigilante Man
  5. Dust Can't Kill Me
  6. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  7. Pretty Boy Floyd
  8. Blowin' Down This Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way)
  9. Tom Joad, Pt. 1
  10. Tom Joad, Pt. 2
  11. Dust Bowl Refugee
  12. Do Re Mi
  13. Dust Bowl Blues
  14. Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh)

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Put this in its proper perspective; don't propagandize........2002-06-10

Historically significant? It was pretty much completely unheard of in its day. My father, who was born in 1918 and was fairly conversant with "folk music" -- he'd long been a fan of Burl Ives -- didn't have any idea who Woody Guthrie was until Arlo made a splash with "Alice's Restaurant" in the late sixties. On the other hand, Woody Guthrie became sort of a legend among "folk boom" college kids two decades after "Dust Bowl Ballads" was originally released, mainly because Pete Seeger went about mythologizing Woody Guthrie (after Woody Guthrie went about mythologizing himself). The only really interesting thing I heard in this record happened to be its relation to the early work of a particular one of those college kids: Bob Dylan. Compare "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues" to "Talkin' New York" from Dylan's first album
and Guthrie's harmonica to Dylan's harmonica.

"Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues" also spares us Woody Guthries unpleasant and out-of-tune singing voice. His speaking voice, on the other hand, is smooth and mild, the voice of a professional radio personality, which, by the way, Woody Guthrie WAS for a fair while.

Some reviewers seem to think Woody Guthrie composed music. No, he set his lyrics to existing music, mostly "Carter family" music,
which to my ears is deadly boring. His lyrics are sometimes satirically on the mark, sometimes rambling, sometimes purple, a mixed bag.

I'd be curious to know how many of those who display this in their collections actually ever take it out and listen to. I'd guess few.

My advice. Listen to this once (borrow it or something -- do NOT buy it) and read Joe Klein's outstanding Woody Guthrie biography.
Then move on to something else.

5 out of 5 stars the best ever folk album by the best singer,he's real.......1999-01-11

Woodie Guthrie is the most authentic American folk singer I have ever heard.He doesn't seem to care about popularity or record sales or any such thing.He is a comlete natural.

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