Woody Guthrie - Radical American Patriot

Woody Guthrie, den legendären Ur-Vater aller Folk-Singer und Liedermacher, ehrte das Rounder-Label vor einiger Zeit mit dem Box-Set „My Dusty Road“ (dem legendären „Koffer“). Jetzt legt Rounder eine weitere, ebenso schön gestaltete und ausgestattete Buch-Box nach, die sich mit einer besonderen Phase seiner Kariere beschäftigt: „Woody Guthrie: Radical American Patriot“.
In den 40er Jahren wirkte Guthrie bei diversen staatlichen Aufklärungsprogrammen mit, die die von der Wirtschaftskrise gebeutelten Amerikaner über Stromversorgung, Gesundheit, Sozialprogramme und ähnliches informieren sollten. Hierfür entstanden einzigartige Aufnahmen neuer und bekannter Songs des Liedermachers.

Das streng limitierte Box-Set beinhaltet 6 CDs, eine DVD und ein 60-seitiges Buch (auch als deutlich erweiterte 258-seitge PDF-Version enthalten). Als besonderer Leckerbissen ist eine 10“ 78-rpm Vinyl mit Bob Dylans Version von Guthries “VD City” und Guthries eigenes “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done” enthalten.
Eine Traum-Box des Vorbildes von Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen und Johnny Cash.

Inhalt
 
Disk 1 von 8

    1 LOST TRAIN BLUES
    2 Growing up in Oklahoma
    3 THE RAILROAD BLUES
    4 More talk of growing up in Okemah
    5 The gang of kids Woody hung around with
    6 RYE WHISKEY
    7 OLD JOE CLARK
    8 Alan Lomax asks for a tune
    9 BEAUMONT RAG
    10 Alan asks for another one
    11 GREEN VALLEY WALTZ (a.k.a.) Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
    12 The troubles and tragedies that fractured Woody’s family in Okemah
    13 GREENBACK DOLLAR
    14 Lomax asks about the boll weevil
    15 BOLL WEEVIL
    16 Jailhouse songs
    17 THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
    18 When the great dust storm struck

Disk 2 von 8

    1 The end of the world
    2 SO LONG, IT’S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH
    3 Dust storms devastate the farmland
    4 TALKING DUST BOWL
    5 Migrants arrive in California
    6 DO RE MI
    7 HARD TIMES
    8 Songs about hard times
    9 BRING BACK TO ME MY BLUE-EYED BOY
    10 Songs about outlaws
    11 BILLY THE KID
    12 Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd
    13 PRETTY BOY FLOYD
    14 Jesse James
    15 JESSE JAMES AND HIS BOYS
    16 Takin’ it from the rich and givin’ it to the poor
    17 JESUS CHRIST
    18 Songs about bankers
    19 THE JOLLY BANKER
    20 Another song about the depradations of the bankers
    21 I AIN’T GOT NO HOME
    22 Hundreds of thousands made homeless
    23 DIRTY OVERHAULS
    24 The story of Mary Fagan
    25 MARY FAGAN
    26 The origins of the song

Disk 3 von 8

    1 Origins of the song, continued
    2 CHAIN AROUND MY LEG
    3 Let’s sing some blues
    4 NINE HUNDRED MILES
    5 WORRIED MAN BLUES
    6 About the “Worried Man Blues”
    7 LONESOME VALLEY
    8 Railroad blueses
    9 WALKIN’ DOWN THAT RAILROAD LINE
    10 Interlude
    11 GOIN’ DOWN THE FRISCO LINE
    12 Riding the rails
    13 GOING DOWN THE ROAD
    14 Interlude
    15 SEVEN CENT COTTON
    16 WISH I’D STAYED IN THE WAGON YARD
    17 Interlude
    18 DUST BOWL REFUGEE
    19 Contractors duping the desperate
    20 The dust storm of April 14, 1935
    21 DUST STORM DISASTER / FOGGY MOUNTAIN TOP

Disk 4 von 8

    1 Breathing in dust
    2 DUST PNEUMONIA BLUES
    3 Leaving the Dust Bowl
    4 CALIFORNIA BLUES
    5 Jimmie Rodgers
    6 Migrants arriving in California
    7 DO RE MI
    8 Refugees pouring into California
    9 DUST BOWL REFUGEE
    10 California as one of the 48 states
    11 WILL ROGERS HIGHWAY
    12 The flood that took over 100 lives
    13 LOS ANGELES NEW YEAR’S FLOOD
    14 A good horse
    15 STEWBALL
    16 Interlude
    17 STAGGER LEE
    18 Interlude
    19 ONE DIME BLUES
    20 Interlude
    21 GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGIES
    22 Interlude
    23 THE TRAIL TO MEXICO
    24 GYPSY DAVY
    25 Introducing an old song
    26 HARD AIN’T IT HARD

Disk 5 von 8

    1 THE BPA RECORDINGS
    2 Introduction
    3 PASTURES OF PLENTY
    4 OREGON TRAIL
    5 ROLL ON COLUMBIA
    6 NEW FOUND LAND
    7 TALKING COLUMBIA
    8 ROLL, COLUMBIA, ROLL
    9 COLUMBIA’S WATERS
    10 RAMBLIN’ BLUES
    11 IT TAKES A MARRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG
    12 HARD TRAVELIN’
    13 THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE
    14 k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
    15 JACKHAMMER BLUES
    16 SONG OF THE GRAND COULEE DAM
    17 GRAND COULEE DAM
    18 WASHINGTON TALKIN’ BLUES
    19 RAMBLIN’ ROUND
    20 PASTURES OF PLENTY
    21 END OF MY LINE
    22 WAR EFFORT SONGS: SINKING OF THE REUBEN JAMES
    23 TAKIN’ IT EASY
    24 RECKLESS TALK

Disk 6 von 8

    1 WAR EFFORT SONGS:THE GIRL IN THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
    2 Labor for Victory
    3 FARMER-LABOR TRAIN
    4 Jazz in America, No. 93
    5 WHOOPY TI-YI, GET ALONG, MR. HITLER
    6 Jazz in America, No. 116
    7 SALLY, DON’T YOU GRIEVE
    8 Narrator
    9 DIG A HOLE
    10 Demos:Intro
    11 VD Avenue
    12 Intro
    13 THE VEEDEE BLUES
    14 Intro
    15 BLESSED AND CURST
    16 A CASE OF VD
    17 VD SEAMAN’S LETTER
    18 VD CITY
    19 VD DAY
    20 A CHILD OF VD
    21 V.D. GUNNER’S BLUES
    22 BROOKLYNE TOWNE
    23 Narrator
    24 THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE (a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
    25 THE OLD CRACKED LOOKING GLASS
    26 HARD TIMES IN THE DURANT JAIL
    27 EMPTY BOXCAR, MY HOME
    28 THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE

Disk 7 von 8

    1 OREGON TRAIL
    2 IT TAKES A MARRIED MAN TO SING A WORRIED SONG
    3 HARD TRAVELIN’
    4 GRAND COULEE DAM
    5 ROLL ON, COLUMBIA
    6 THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE (a.k.a. The Great Historical Bum)
    7 JACKHAMMER BLUES
    8 PASTURES OF PLENTY
    9 TALKING COLUMBIA
    10 RAMBLIN’ ROUND
    11 WASHINGTON TALKIN’ BLUES

Disk 8 von 8

    1 VD CITYity
    2 THE BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE