- This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 · 1945
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- Columbia River Collection · 1987
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4 · 1989
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- My Dusty Road · 1945
- Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection · 1964
- Dust Bowl Ballads · 1940
- Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3 · 1964
- My Dusty Road · 2009
Essential Albums
- What’s remarkable about listening to Woody Guthrie all these decades later isn’t just his ingenuity but his range. Recorded in the mid-'40s by Folkways Records founder Moses Asch, the music here represents the purest distillation of Guthrie's work, filled with talking blues (“New York Town”) and serenedes (“Hobo’s Lullaby”), kids’ stuff (“Car Song”) and anything but (“This Land Is Your Land”). An effortless storyteller, Guthrie understood his characters—rich, poor, hero or outlaw—not just as isolated lives but tiles in the mosaic of America; every one of us, from the struggling Okie to the spit-shined lawyer, connected.
- The stories that Woody Guthrie tells of surviving the Dust Bowl on his first album feel as relevant today as they did in 1940. His compellingly real, almost journalistic accounts of violence on the bluegrass stomper "Vigilante Man" and desperation on the weighty "Dust Pneumonia Blues" bring the horrors of that turbulent era to life. The ironically jaunty tune of "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" deliberately clashes with lyrical references to police aggression, unchecked greed, and ruined families.
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- America's most patriotic subversive songwriter was a true folk hero.
- Freedom fighters channel a folk legend's liberal spirit.
Compilations
About Woody Guthrie
American folk music has produced few artists as gifted and complex as Woody Guthrie. As a songwriter, storyteller, and provocateur, Guthrie had few equals. Born in Oklahoma in 1912, he became a wandering troubadour in his teens, and during the 1930s and 1940s, he amassed a huge body of songs about the social injustices he observed. His genius lay in his gift for seamlessly integrating his leftist political principles into simple, catchy songs for and about common folks. Guthrie was a tireless crusader for political causes from unions to migrant workers. His Dust Bowl troubadour sound influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to Pete Seeger.
- HOMETOWN
- Okemah, OK, United States
- BORN
- July 14, 1912
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter