Woody Guthrie - American Radical Patriot (6 CD, 2013)


 Radical American Patriot
is a collection of material recorded "in service" of the U.S. Government. Here are his complete Library of Congress interviews and musical performances recorded by Alan Lomax (released in their entirety for the first time); his songs written while employed by the Bonneville Power Administration, including a previously unreleased, minor key version of "Pastures of Plenty"; a set of previously unheard home demonstration recordings of songs made for a late 1940s public health service VD education program; three radio skits, including two for the Office of War Information during the Second World War; and a number of other radio performances made in support of the war effort. It's a sweeping overview both of a transitional period in American history, and of the prolific, multi-faceted life of Woody Guthrie





CD1
  1. Lost Train Blues
  2. Growing Up in Oklahoma [Speech]
  3. The Railroad Blues
  4. More Talk of Growing Up in Okemah [Speech]
  5. The Gang of Kids Woody Hung Around with [Speech]
  6. Rye Whiskey
  7. Some Old-Time Square Dance Tunes [Speech]
  8. Old Joe Clark
  9. Alan Lomax Asks for a Tune [Speech]
  10. Beaumont Rag
  11. Alan Asks for Another One [Speech]
  12. Green Valley Waltz (A.K.A.) Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  13. The Troubles and Tragedies That Fractured Woody's Family in Okemah [Speech]
  14. Greenback Dollar
  15. Lomax Asks About the Boll Weevil [Speech]
  16. Boll Weevil
  17. Jailhouse Songs [Speech]
  18. The Midnight Special
  19. When the Great Dust Storm Struck [Speech]

CD2
  1. The End of the World [Speech]
  2. So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh
  3. Dust Storms Devastate the Farmland [Speech]
  4. Talking Dust BPW;
  5. Migrants Arrive in California [Speech]
  6. Do Re Mi
  7. Hard Times
  8. Songs About Hard Times [Speech]
  9. Bring Back to Me My Blue-Eyed Boy
  10. Songs About Outlaws [Speech]
  11. Billy the Kid
  12. Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd [Speech]
  13. Pretty Boy Floyd
  14. Jesse James [Speech]
  15. Jesse James and His Boys
  16. Takin' It from the Rich and Givin' It to the Poor [Speech]
  17. Jesus Christ
  18. Songs About Bankers [Speech]
  19. The Jolly Banker
  20. Another Song About the Depradations of the Bankers [Speech]
  21. I Ain't Got No Home
  22. Hundreds of Thousands Made Homeless [Speech]
  23. Dirty Overhauls
  24. The Story of Mary Fagan [Speech]
  25. Mary Fagan
  26. The Origins of the Song [Speech]

CD3
  1. Origins of the Song, Continued [Speech]
  2. Chain Around My Leg
  3. Let's Sing Some Blues [Speech]
  4. Nine Hundred Miles
  5. Worried Man Blues
  6. About the 'Worried Man Blues' [Speech]
  7. Lonesome Valley
  8. Railroad Blueses [Speech]
  9. Walkin' Down That Railroad Line
  10. Interlude [Speech]
  11. Goin' Down the Frisco Line
  12. Riding the Rails [Speech]
  13. Going Down the Road
  14. Interlude [Speech]
  15. Seven Cent Cotton
  16. Wish I'd Stayed in the Wagon Yard
  17. Interlude [Speech]
  18. Dust Bowl Refugee
  19. Contractors Duping the Desperate [Speech]
  20. The Dust Storm of April 14, 1935 [Speech]
  21. Dust Storm Disaster / Foggy Mountain Top

CD4
  1. Breathing in Dust [Speech]
  2. Dust Pneumonia Blues
  3. Leaving the Dust Bowl [Speech]
  4. California Blues
  5. Jimmie Rodgers [Speech]
  6. Migrants Arriving in California [Speech]
  7. Do Re Mi
  8. Refugees Pouring Into California [Speech]
  9. Dust Bowl Refugee
  10. California As One of the 48 States [Speech]
  11. Will Rogers Highway
  12. The Flood That Took Over 100 Lives [Speech]
  13. Los Angeles New Year's Flood
  14. A Good Horse [Speech]
  15. Stewball
  16. Interlude [Speech]
  17. Stagger Lee
  18. Interlude [Speech]
  19. One Dime Blues
  20. Interlude [Speech]
  21. Git Along Little Dogies
  22. Interlude [Speech]
  23. The Trail to Mexico
  24. Gypsy Davy
  25. Introducing an Old Song [Speech]
  26. Hard Ain't It Hard

CD5
  1. Introduction [Speech]
  2. Pastures of Plenty
  3. Oregon Trail
  4. Roll On Columbia
  5. New Found Land
  6. Talking Columbia
  7. Roll, Columbia, Roll
  8. Columbia's Waters
  9. Ramblin' Blues
  10. It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song
  11. Hard Travelin'
  12. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (A.K.A. The Great Historical Bum)
  13. Jackhammer Blues
  14. Song of the Grand Coulee Dam
  15. Grand Coulee Dam
  16. Washington Talkin' Blues
  17. Ramblin' Round
  18. Pastures of Plenty
  19. End of My Line
  20. Sinking of the Reuben James
  21. Takin' It Easy
  22. Reckless Talk

CD6
  1. The Girl in the Red, White, and Blue
  2. Labor for Victory [Speech]
  3. Farmer-Labor Train
  4. Jazz in America, No. 93 [Speech]
  5. Whoopy Ti-Yi, Get Along, Mr. Hitler
  6. Jazz in America, No. 116 [Speech]
  7. Sally, Don't You Grieve
  8. Narrator [Speech]
  9. Dig a Hole
  10. VD Avenue
  11. Intro [Speech]
  12. The Veedee Blues
  13. Intro [Speech]
  14. Blessed and Curst
  15. A Case of VD
  16. VD Seaman's Letter
  17. VD City
  18. VD Day
  19. A Child of VD
  20. V.D. Gunner's Blues
  21. Brooklyne Towne
  22. Narrator [Speech]
  23. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (A.K.A. The Great Historical Bum)
  24. The Old Cracked Looking Glass
  25. Hard Times in the Durant Jail
  26. Empty Boxcar, My Home
  27. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (A.K.A. The Great Historical Bum)