Favorite Wody Guthrie song?

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  1. The Wind Cries Paul

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    Mines Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad

    His version Red River Valley is pretty good too.
     
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  3. water_baby

    water_baby Senior Member

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    Did he do a song called "Ghost Rider"?
     
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  5. drumminmama

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    Plane Wreck at Los Gatos/ Deportee
    1913 Massacree
    Ludlow Masscre
    Oklahoma Hills
    Pastures of Plenty
    Against th' Law
     
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    Going Down the Road Feeling Bad for me
     
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    1913 Massacre
    Take You Riding In The Car

    But I'm more into Arlo.
     
    theshaman, Nov 3, 2005
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    ok, i know i'm late on this thread, but i just got here :)

    'pastures of plenty' would be my pick for sure. after all these years, it still gives me chills

    btw...if you like the Guthrie family, you should check out arlo's daughter saralee & her husband, johnny irion. we caught them at a local fest & they were really great & very kind folks as well

    ~*peace*~
    josalyn
     
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  13. lover/young_peace

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    Pastures of Plenty & Do Re Mi & A Picture from Life's Other Side are my favorites.
     
    lover/young_peace, Nov 6, 2005
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  15. Asmodean

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    Pastures of plenty is the only song I know of him, I think. But I love that one!
     
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  17. water_baby

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    Woody Guthrie is Bob Dylan's mentor. Bob Dylan was blown away by his Dust Bowl ballads.
     
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    Mean talking blues cos its real funny, and hey lolly lolly for the sick harmonica
     
    themysterytramp, Nov 11, 2005
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  21. water_baby

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    I havn't heard much of Woody Guthrie but from what I've heard I like all them all. The best song I've heard is "Do-Re-Mi" (1940). The Dust Bowl Ballads. The 60's were like the 30's in the music and styles. The 30's had the Dust Bowl while the 60's had a Dust Bowl of freaky looking people and music and style that was like Dust Bowl of counterculture and drugs. No wonder people say that "If you can remember the 60's than you weren't there". Well allow me to retort! Yes, I can remember the 60's, and no I wasn't there. You were there yet tell us you can't remember it, Yes, because there was a Dust Bowl thing going on.
     
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  23. drumminmama

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    I'm sorry, that is the silliest comparison I've ever heard between decades...
    Do you know what the dust bowl was? how it happened? How close we are to another?
    The counterculture was an evolution of social consciousness over the grey flannel years. It was a time to redefine who and what we were.
    It was the beats with less intelleginsia, allowing much younger people in because the academic element slid down. Sadly, this has continued.
    Now, I think Woody would have been tickled, to a point, by the counterculture (I know for a fact his sister was horrified by it, she still is uneasy around hippy types, although she's getting over it in her 70-80s i'm afraid to ask her age)
    And Woody was a counter-to-the-culture hero.
    He was branded Communist because he supported Unions. He eventually raised money for CP-USA, and wrote for the Worker, but I seem to remember hearing that he never joined. I'm not sure he even joined a musicians' union, either!
    When a statute of him was erected in his hometown of Okeemah, Okla., in the early 90s, people boycotted businesses that did not have copies of hateful letters to the editor lambasting him as a Commie in their windows.
    The too damn powerful publisher of the Daily Oklahoman in OKC pulled his annual support of a museum because they were going to have a Smithsonian exhibit on Woody stopping there.
    He won. The display did not come through until after he died.

    In short, water baby, PLEASE learn some history before making such comparisons.
     
    drumminmama, Nov 13, 2005
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  25. water_baby

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    There was a Dust Bowl thing going on in the 1960's.
     
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    Yeah,but that was Angel Dust.

    My favorite Guthrie song is This Land Is Your Land.I think it should be the U.S. National Anthem.If people sang it enough,maybe they'd give some thought to the ideals the country was founded on.Or maybe not,but it would still be better than hearing the crappy this-song-sucks-until-the-very-end melody that the Francis Scott Key poem is set to.


    THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
    words and music by Woody Guthrie

    Chorus:
    This land is your land, this land is my land
    From California, to the New York Island
    From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
    This land was made for you and me

    As I was walking a ribbon of highway
    I saw above me an endless skyway
    I saw below me a golden valley
    This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
    To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
    And all around me a voice was sounding
    This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    The sun comes shining as I was strolling
    The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
    The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
    This land was made for you and me

    Chorus

    As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
    And that sign said - no tress passin'
    But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
    Now that side was made for you and me!

    Chorus

    In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
    Near the relief office - I see my people
    And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
    If this land's still made for you and me.
     
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  29. water_baby

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    Before Bob Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and the Kingston Trio.
     
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  31. Mind Gardens

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    I only have "The Asch Recordings Vol. 1", so my favorite from that cd is "New York Town".
     
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    Hobo's Lullaby
    I love that song, its got such awesome imagery. I can fall asleep to it so easily, just imagining riding the rails in some warm boxcar, as the snow rages outside......
     
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  35. mimosa

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    dave and KTrain, you picked the ones I like too. I just recently heard somewhere that he wrote "This Land" partly in protest to "God Bless America" "which he considered unrealistic and complacent"
    (found this quote on wikipedia but I think a local PBS radio host mentioned it also)

    and I really like Hobo's Lullaby for the same reasons as Ktrain. I listened to Arlo's version a lot as a youngun, before I knew what a great legacy of music that Woody left for us.

    My daughter had to bring an "activist song" for a class (told me as we were in the car going to school) so all I could think of at the time was Woody's "we'll all be union" that I had in the car, so there it went to class.
     
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  37. drumminmama

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    mimosa: mama of the week award for HAVING that in your car and so readily available!

    water baby, WTF do you mean?
    The migration in the 1960s, a prosperous decade because of the military-industrial complex spending by the government, which also had safety nets in place for farms (now gone) was related to opportunity in non-farm jobs, and cultural opportunities such as the kids heading to the coasts or the region's freak central.
    The Great Society Programs (for the eastern mountain folk and such) was a FAR cry from catastrophic drought that moved 1/3 of a population off the farm into work camps. By 1957, the pickers had gone back to being predominately Mexican migrants, as it remains today.

    Hail Corky Gonzalez, Ceasar Chavez, may you both be organizing heaven.
     
    drumminmama, Nov 24, 2005
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    Pretty Boy Floyd...

    Yes, as through this world I've wandered
    I've seen lots of funny men;
    Some will rob you with a six-gun,
    And some with a fountain pen.

    And as through your life you travel,
    Yes, as through your life you roam,
    You won't never see an outlaw
    Drive a family from their home.

    [​IMG]
     
    jazzamatazz, Dec 17, 2005
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