Woody Guthrie's Blues

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Woody Guthrie's Blues
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Studio album by Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Released 1956
Recorded October 1955
Genre Folk
Length32:52(reissue)
Label Topic
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
Woody Guthrie's Blues
(1956)		 Jack Elliot Sings
(1957) Jack Elliot Sings1957

Woody Guthrie's Blues is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1956 in Great Britain. [1]

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Ramblin Jack Elliott American singer and guitarist

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.

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Background

Elliott recalled that the album was recorded by Alan Lomax in the living room of Ewan MacColl's mother in England. The album includes Elliott's arrangements of songs recorded by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, Elliott's hero and mentor. [2]

Alan Lomax American music historian, field collector, producer and filmmaker

Alan Lomax was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. Lomax produced recordings, concerts, and radio shows in the US and in England, which played an important role in preserving folk music traditions in both countries, and helped start both the American and British folk revivals of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. He collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John A. Lomax, and later alone and with others, Lomax recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Archive of American Folk Song, of which he was the director, at the Library of Congress on aluminum and acetate discs.

James Henry Miller, better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer.

Woody Guthrie American singer-songwriter and folk musician

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his music, including songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", has inspired several generations both politically and musically. He wrote hundreds of political, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. His album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, Dust Bowl Ballads, is included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Jay Farrar, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Childers, Sammy Walker, Tom Paxton, AJJ, Brian Fallon, and Sixto Rodríguez have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence. He frequently performed with the slogan "This machine kills fascists" displayed on his guitar.

Reissues

Woody Guthrie's Blues was originally issued as an 8-inch LP with 6 songs by Topic. The track order was changed and additional tracks were added for the 1963 LP reissue as Talking Woody Guthrie. It was again reissued on CD on the Vivid label in 2002 using the 1963 title and track listing. [3]

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival. It began as an offshoot of the Workers' Music Association in 1939, making it the oldest independent record label in the world.

Track listing

All songs by Woody Guthrie.

Side one

  1. "Talking Columbia Blues" – 3:46
  2. "Ludlow Massacre" – 3:39
  3. "Hard Traveling" – 3:26

Side two

  1. "Talking Dustbowl Blues" – 2:56
  2. "1913 Massacre" – 4:10
  3. "Talking Sailor Blues" – 4:00

1963 Reissue track listing

Side one

  1. "Talking Columbia Blues"
  2. "Pretty Boy Floyd"
  3. "Ludlow Massacre"
  4. "Talking Miner Blues"
  5. "Hard Travelling"

Side two

  1. "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You"
  2. "Talking Dustbowl Blues"
  3. "1913 Massacre"
  4. "Rambling Blues"
  5. "Talking Sailor Blues"
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References

  1. ↑ Ramblin' Jack Elliott Illustrated discography Retrieved December 2009.
  2. ↑ Reineke, Hank (2009). Ramblin' Jack Elliott: The Never-Ending Highway. Scarecrow Press. p. 86. ISBN   978-0-810-87257-8.
  3. ↑ "Woody Guthrie's Blues > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 3, 2011.
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