Chiefly folk songs, political songs, and blues songs. Rounder Records: 11661-1162-2 (on discs: 11661-1163-2--11661-1166-2) Woody Guthrie, vocals, guitar, fiddle, mandolin ; Cisco Houston, vocals, guitar ; Sonny Terry, harmonica. Recorded Apr.16-25, 1944 in New York, N.Y. Four-v. set housed in suitcase (19 x 27 cm.) with program notes and two essays, Woody Rediscovered, and Depression America and Woody Guthrie, by Ed Carey and Bill Nowlin (26 cm.), reproduction postcard, booking notification card, and business card, inserted in container.
Contents:
Disc 4. Sonny's flight. This land id your land ; Going down the road (I ain't gonna be treated this way) ; Talking sailor ; Philadelphia lawyer ; Hard travelin' ; Jesus Christ ; The sinking of the Reuben James ; Pretty Boy Floyd ; Grand Coulee dam ; Nine hundred miles ; Going down the road (I ain't gonna be treated this way) ; My daddy (flies a ship in the sky) ; Bad repetation [sic] -- Disc 2. Woody's roots. Poor boy ; Worried man blues ; A picture from life's other side ; Buffalo skinners ; Hard ain't it hard ; Stewball ; Stackolee ; Gypsy Davy ; Little darling pal of mine ; What did the deep sea say? ; Chisholm trail ; Put my little shoes away ; Will you miss me when I'm gone? ; John Henry -- Disc 3. Woody the agitator. I'm gonna join that one big union (You gotta go down and join the union) ; Hangknot, slipknot ; Gonna roll the union on ; The Ludlow massacre ; Sally don't you grieve ; Harriet Tubman's ballad (part 1) ; Harriet Tubman's ballad (part 2) ; Tear the fascists down ; When the Yanks go marching in ; You can hear my whistle blow ; Union burying ground ; You gotta go down and join the union -- Disc 4. Woody, Cisco and Sonny. Train breakdown ; Do you ever think of me (aka At my window) ; Guitar rag ; Square dance medley. Cripple Creek ; Buffalo gals ; Old Joe Clark ; Red wing ; Ida Red ; Chilly winds ; Sandy land ; Guitar breakdown ; Raincrow Bill ; Ain't nobody's business ; Stepstone ; Ezekiel saw the wheel ; Bile them cabbage down ; Danville girl ; Guitar blues ; Brown's Ferry blues ; More pretty girls than one ; Sonny's flight.
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