Folk Family Double Feature: The Guthries
Nov 24, 2010, 10:11pm
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We're long overdue for a comprehensive look at the Guthrie legacy here on these pages. And with Arlo's infamous long-form Thanksgiving narrative Alice's Restaurant Massacree riding the airwaves this weekend in anticipation of next week's inevitable all-Christmas-all-day switch-over, it seems there's no time like the present. Thinking more deeply, though, Woody's songbook also bears out well as a soundtrack for giving thanks. So many of his narratives point to the dustbowl world, with its depression-era desperation for that which we take for granted today, from freedoms to support structures, [...]
- Arlo Guthrie - I Ain't Marching Anymore (Phil Ochs cover)
- Arlo Guthrie - My Creole Belle (Mississippi John Hurt cover)
- Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger - How Can I Keep From Singing
- Charles Sawtelle And Friends - The Ranger's Command (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Elizabeth Mitchell - Who's My Pretty Baby (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Folk Uke - I Still Miss Someone
- Musee Mecanique - I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Nanci Griffith - Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Old Crow Medicine Show - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Pierce Pettis - Pastures Of Plenty (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Sarah Lee Guthrie - Sailing Down This Golden River (Pete Seeger cover)
- Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Dr. King (Pete Seeger cover)
- Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion - Like Strangers (Everly Brothers cover)
- Slaid Cleaves - This Morning I Am Born Again (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Solas - Pastures Of Plenty (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Tom Juravich - I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Tom Rush - Poor Man (Woody Guthrie cover)
- Woody Guthrie - House of the Rising Sun
- Woody Guthrie - John Henry
- Woody Guthrie - Stackolee
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