Album
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1
1997 · Folk, World, & Country
Rare pressing on Gatefold
This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 is a Folk album by Woody Guthrie, originally released in 1997. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.
About
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.
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Tracklist
- 1This Land Is Your Land2:19
- 2Car Song1:52
- 3Rambling Round2:15
- 4Talking Fishing Blues3:06
- 5Philadelphia Lawyer2:31
- 6Lindbergh3:12
- 7Hobo's Lullaby2:25
- 8Pastures of Plenty2:27
- 9Grand Coulee Dam2:13
- 10End of the Line2:52
- 11New York Town2:37
- 12Gypsy Davy2:51
- 13Jesus Christ2:39
- 14This Land Is Your Land (Alternate)2:45
- 15Do-Re-Mi2:32
- 16Jarama Valley2:55
- 17The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done2:19
- 18A Picture from Life's Other Side3:08
- 19Jesse James3:00
- 20Talking Hard Work3:25
- 21When That Great Ship Went Down3:20
- 22Hard Ain't It Hard2:44
- 23Going Down the Road Feeling Bad3:01
- 24I Ain't Got Nobody2:33
- 25The Sinking of the Reuben James3:01
- 26Why, Oh Why?3:28
- 27This Land Is Your Land (reprise)0:53
Sound DNA
- Folk
- Traditional Folk
- stripped-back
- earnest
- storytelling
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Catalog number is SF 40100 on the disc, SF CD 40100 elsewhere.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bess HawesHARMONY VOCALS
- Cisco HoustonFEATURING HARMONY VOCALS HARMONY VOCALS, GUITAR
- Sonny TerryHARMONICA
- Woody GuthrieLEAD VOCALS, GUITAR LEAD VOCALS, MANDOLIN VOCALS, GUITAR
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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