| Description |
3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet. |
| Note |
Program notes by Alan Lomax on container insert. |
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Compact disc. |
| Contents |
Lost train blues -- Railroad blues -- Rye whiskey -- Old Joe Clark -- Beaumont rag -- Texas oil field -- Greenback dollar -- Boll weevil song -- So long, it's been good to know you -- Talking dust bowl blues -- Do-re-mi -- Hard times -- Pretty Boy Floyd -- They laid Jesus Christ in his grave -- Jolly banker -- I ain't got no home -- Dirty overalls -- Chain around my leg -- Worried man blues -- Lonesome Valley -- Walking down that railroad line -- Goin' down that road feeling bad -- Dust storm disaster -- Foggy mountain top - - Dust pneumonia blues -- California blues -- Dust bowl refugees -- Will Rogers Highway -- Los Angeles New Year's flood. |
| Performer |
Woody Guthrie, vocals, harmonica, and guitar, and in interviews with Alan Lomax. |
| Event |
Recorded Mar. 1940 by Alan Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- 1931-1940 -- Sound recordings.
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Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940 -- Sound recordings.
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Folk songs, English -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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Protest songs -- Sound recordings.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Songs and music -- Sound recordings.
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Folk music -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967, performer.
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Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.
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Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)
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Library of Congress.
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| Standard No. |
1166110412 |
| Music No. |
CD 1041 Rounder |
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CD 1042 Rounder |
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CD 1043 Rounder |
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