Poland-born,
Brooklyn-reared producer and folk enthusiast Moses Asch maintained a
suitably slack but ultimately productive relationship with Woody Guthrie.
The notoriously unbound folksinger was free to stop by the New York
studio unannounced and Asch would record whatever was running through
the folksinger's fertile mind at the time. From the vast body of work
the twosome came up with comes this cornerstone four-disc collection.
All four CDs included in The Asch Recordings have been released
individually--This Land is Your Land (something of a best-of set), Muleskinner Blues (a collection of the singer's old favorites), Hard Travelin' (a topical compilation), and Buffalo Skinners (Western-themed songs)
Vol.1:
01 This Land is Your Land
02 - Car Song
03 - Ramblin' Round
04 - Talking Fishing Blues
05 - Philadelphia Lawyer
06 - Lindbergh
07 - Hobo's Lullaby
08 - Pastures of Plenty
09 - Grand Coulee Dam
10 - End of the Line
11 - New York Town
12 - Gypsy Davy
13 - Jesus Christ
14 - This Land is Your Land
15 - Do-Re-Mi
16 - Jarama Valley
17 - The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
18 - Picture From Life's Other Side
19 - Jesse James
20 - Talking Hard Work
21 - When That Great Ship Went Down
22 - Hard, Ain't It Hard
23 - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
24 - I Ain't Got Nobody
25 - Sinking of the Reuben James
26 - Why, Oh Why
27 - This Land is Your Land
Vol.2:
01 - Muleskinner Blues
02 - Wreck of the Old 97
03 - Sally Goodin'
04 - Little Black Train
05 - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
06 - Baltimore to Washington
07 - Rubber Dolly
08 - 21 Years
09 - Sowing on the Mountain
10 - Bed on the Floor
11 - Take a Whiff on Me
12 - Stepstone
13 - Put My Little Shoes Away
14 - Hen Cackle
15 - Poor Boy
16 - Stackolee
17 - Johnny Hart
18 - Worried Man Blues
19 - Danville Girl
20 - Gamling Man
21 - Rye Straw
22 - Crawdad Song
23 - Ida Red
24 - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
25 - Train 45
Vol.3:
01 - Hard Travelin'
02 - Farmer-Labor Train
03 - Howdjadoo
04 - Ship In The Sky
05 - I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
06 - Mean Talking Blues
07 - Better World A-Comin'
08 - Miss Pavlichenko
09 - So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
10 - New Found Land
11 - Oregon Trail
12 - Vigilante Man
13 - 1913 Massacre
14 - Talking Columbia
15 - Two Good Men
16 - Sally, Don't You Grieve
17 - Talking Sailor
18 - What Are We Waiting On
19 - Railroad Blues
20 - Ludlow Massacre
21 - Ladies Auxiliary
22 - Miner's Song
23 - When The Yanks Go Marching In
24 - Union Maid (Excerpt)
25 - Rubaiyat (Excerpt)
26 - The Many And The Few
27 - Hanukkah Dance
Vol.4:
01 - Ranger's Command
02 - Buffalo Skinners
03 - Billy the Kid
04 - Cowboy Waltz
05 - Pretty Boy Floyd
06 - Along in the Sun and the Rain
07 - Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Liittle Dogies
08 - Froggie Went a-Courtin'
09 - Buffalo Gals
10 - I Ride an Old Paint
11 - Dead or Alive
12 - Slipknot
13 - Cocaine Blues
14 - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
15 - Chisholm Trail
16 - Stewball
17 - Wild Cyclone
18 - Train Blues
19 - Red River Valley
20 - Fastest of Ponies
21 - Stewball
22 - Snow Deer
23 - When the Curfew Blows
24 - Little Darling
25 - Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
26 - The Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty