My Dusty Road [4 Discs]

Rating

Album: My Dusty Road
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	This Land Is Your Land	More Info...	2:44
2)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	2:56
3)	Talking Sailor	More Info...	3:06
4)	Philadelphia Lawyer	More Info...	2:33
5)	Hard Travelin'	More Info...	2:38
6)	Jesus Christ	More Info...	2:41
7)	The Sinking Of The Reuben James	More Info...	3:26
8)	Pretty Boy Floyd	More Info...	3:07
9)	Grand Coulee Dam	More Info...	2:09
10)	Nine Hundred Miles	More Info...	2:52
11)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	2:58
12)	Ship In The Sky	More Info...	2:34
13)	Bad Repetation	More Info...	2:51
	Disc 2
1)	Poor Boy	More Info...	2:27
2)	Worried Man Blues	More Info...	3:02
3)	A Picture From Life's Other Side	More Info...	3:05
4)	Buffalo Skinners	More Info...	3:20
5)	Hard Ain't It Hard	More Info...	2:41
6)	Stewball	More Info...	3:28
7)	Stackolee	More Info...	3:01
8)	Gypsy Davy	More Info...	2:49
9)	Little Darling Pal Of Mine	More Info...	2:55
10)	What Did The Deep Sea Say?	More Info...	2:59
11)	Chisholm Trail	More Info...	2:37
12)	Put My Little Shoes Away	More Info...	2:49
13)	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	More Info...	2:33
14)	John Henry	More Info...	2:40
	Disc 3
1)	I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union	More Info...	2:30
2)	Hangknot, Slipknot	More Info...	2:32
3)	Gonna Roll The Union On	More Info...	2:37
4)	The Ludlow Massacre	More Info...	3:32
5)	Sally Don't You Grieve	More Info...	2:23
6)	Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 1	More Info...	3:24
7)	Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 2	More Info...	3:09
8)	Tear The Fascists Down	More Info...	2:07
9)	When The Yanks Go Marching In	More Info...	2:42
10)	You Can Hear My Whistle Blow	More Info...	2:24
11)	Union Burying Ground	More Info...	3:06
12)	You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union	More Info...	2:43
	Disc 4
1)	Train Breakdown	More Info...	2:32
2)	Do You Ever Think Of Me?	More Info...	3:06
3)	Guitar Rag	More Info...	2:19
4)	Square Dance Medley	More Info...	3:51
5)	Guitar Breakdown	More Info...	2:21
6)	Raincrow Bill	More Info...	2:37
7)	Ain't Nobody's Business	More Info...	2:42
8)	Stepstone	More Info...	2:52
9)	Ezekiel Saw The Wheel	More Info...	2:42
10)	Bile Them Cabbage Down	More Info...	2:47
11)	Danville Girl	More Info...	3:43
12)	Guitar Blues	More Info...	2:56
13)	Brown's Ferry Blues	More Info...	2:46
14)	More Pretty Girls Than One	More Info...	2:17
15)	Sonny's Flight	More Info...	2:58
5)	Hard Travelin'	More Info...	0:02
6)	Jesus Christ	More Info...	0:02
7)	The Sinking of the Reuben James	More Info...	0:03
8)	Pretty Boy Floyd	More Info...	0:03
9)	Grand Coulee Dam	More Info...	0:02
10)	Nine Hundred Miles	More Info...	0:03
11)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	0:03
12)	Ship in the Sky	More Info...	0:02
13)	Bad Reputation	More Info...	0:03
14)	Tear the Fascists	More Info...	0:02
15)	Sonny's Flight	More Info...	0:03
16)	A Picture from Life's Other Side	More Info...	0:03

Album: My Dusty Road
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	This Land Is Your Land	More Info...	2:44
2)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	2:56
3)	Talking Sailor	More Info...	3:06
4)	Philadelphia Lawyer	More Info...	2:33
5)	Hard Travelin'	More Info...	2:38
6)	Jesus Christ	More Info...	2:41
7)	The Sinking Of The Reuben James	More Info...	3:26
8)	Pretty Boy Floyd	More Info...	3:07
9)	Grand Coulee Dam	More Info...	2:09
10)	Nine Hundred Miles	More Info...	2:52
11)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	2:58
12)	Ship In The Sky	More Info...	2:34
13)	Bad Repetation	More Info...	2:51
	Disc 2
1)	Poor Boy	More Info...	2:27
2)	Worried Man Blues	More Info...	3:02
3)	A Picture From Life's Other Side	More Info...	3:05
4)	Buffalo Skinners	More Info...	3:20
5)	Hard Ain't It Hard	More Info...	2:41
6)	Stewball	More Info...	3:28
7)	Stackolee	More Info...	3:01
8)	Gypsy Davy	More Info...	2:49
9)	Little Darling Pal Of Mine	More Info...	2:55
10)	What Did The Deep Sea Say?	More Info...	2:59
11)	Chisholm Trail	More Info...	2:37
12)	Put My Little Shoes Away	More Info...	2:49
13)	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	More Info...	2:33
14)	John Henry	More Info...	2:40
	Disc 3
1)	I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union	More Info...	2:30
2)	Hangknot, Slipknot	More Info...	2:32
3)	Gonna Roll The Union On	More Info...	2:37
4)	The Ludlow Massacre	More Info...	3:32
5)	Sally Don't You Grieve	More Info...	2:23
6)	Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 1	More Info...	3:24
7)	Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 2	More Info...	3:09
8)	Tear The Fascists Down	More Info...	2:07
9)	When The Yanks Go Marching In	More Info...	2:42
10)	You Can Hear My Whistle Blow	More Info...	2:24
11)	Union Burying Ground	More Info...	3:06
12)	You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union	More Info...	2:43
	Disc 4
1)	Train Breakdown	More Info...	2:32
2)	Do You Ever Think Of Me?	More Info...	3:06
3)	Guitar Rag	More Info...	2:19
4)	Square Dance Medley	More Info...	3:51
5)	Guitar Breakdown	More Info...	2:21
6)	Raincrow Bill	More Info...	2:37
7)	Ain't Nobody's Business	More Info...	2:42
8)	Stepstone	More Info...	2:52
9)	Ezekiel Saw The Wheel	More Info...	2:42
10)	Bile Them Cabbage Down	More Info...	2:47
11)	Danville Girl	More Info...	3:43
12)	Guitar Blues	More Info...	2:56
13)	Brown's Ferry Blues	More Info...	2:46
14)	More Pretty Girls Than One	More Info...	2:17
15)	Sonny's Flight	More Info...	2:58
5)	Hard Travelin'	More Info...	0:02
6)	Jesus Christ	More Info...	0:02
7)	The Sinking of the Reuben James	More Info...	0:03
8)	Pretty Boy Floyd	More Info...	0:03
9)	Grand Coulee Dam	More Info...	0:02
10)	Nine Hundred Miles	More Info...	0:03
11)	I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way	More Info...	0:03
12)	Ship in the Sky	More Info...	0:02
13)	Bad Reputation	More Info...	0:03
14)	Tear the Fascists	More Info...	0:02
15)	Sonny's Flight	More Info...	0:03
16)	A Picture from Life's Other Side	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Liner Note Authors: Ed Cray; Bill Nowlin; Nora Guthrie.
Photographers: Tiffany Loiselle; Bill Nowlin; Rick Olivier.
Arrangers: Sonny Terry; Woody Guthrie.
It's nearly impossible to fathom that recordings so alive and important sat untouched in a Brooklyn basement for six decades, but that's how the story of My Dusty Road begins. Long story short: an elderly woman had inherited a cache of some 2,000 metal disc recordings cut in the 1940s for Herbert Harris, owner of the Stinson Records label, and Moses Asch, who went on to found Folkways Records. Among them, most in pristine condition (some were scratched but the metal masters were otherwise shiny and new-looking), were roughly 150 sides made in April 1944 by one Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, first-class performances from his peak years. It should be noted up front that this is not a discovery of music that hasn't seen the light of day before -- only six of the 54 tracks that ended up on the four-CD box set are previously unreleased; the rest have been issued by Stinson (and on various reissues). My Dusty Road can, however, be considered a significant sonic upgrade. Some of the metal discs were damaged, but enough was salvageable -- and able to be cleaned up with modern technology -- that this collection (including six alternate versions Guthrie never released elsewhere) culled from that basement can now be considered a worthy new piece of the Guthrie canon. Divided into four thematic segments -- Woody's "Greatest" Hits, Woodys Roots, Woody the Agitator, and Woody, Cisco and Sonny (i.e., Guthrie and fellow folksingers Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry) -- the set is both familiar and fresh-sounding at once.
Opening with "This Land Is Your Land," it becomes immediately noticeable throughout the first disc that, although there is still a certain amount of hiss and scratch present (these recordings did, after all, sit in a basement for 60 years), Guthrie's voice and guitar are brighter, more immediate. Two versions of "Going Down the Road," one a collaborative effort with Houston and Terry, the other with only Houston, are lively and poignant, and other staples such as "The Sinking of the Reuben James" and "Pretty Boy Floyd" feel more like intimate coffeehouse recordings than, as they did before, distant and flat. "Bad Repetation" (sic), the first of the never-heard songs, ends disc one, a clever, uptempo indictment of a male suitor's paying the price for his misbehavior. Of the songs on disc two, again many have become standards of the Guthrie and general folk song repertoire, interpreted by countless artists over the years: "Stewball," "Worried Man Blues," "John Henry," etc. Here they come alive as if a layer of grime has been wiped off the surface. Similarly, the topical songs that populate disc three and the collaborations on the final disc, while not altering the actual Guthrie story in any major way, do allow listeners to move in a little closer and experience the music as it was performed during those 1944 days. "Guitar Rag," a previously unreleased instrumental featuring Guthrie and Houston on guitars and Terry on harmonica, is truly thrilling, a pure sampling of what it would have been like to watch these three greats sitting around jamming casually. And "Sonny's Flight," which closes out the package and has also never before been issued, is a terrific stomping folk-blues that places Terry's harmonica front and center. My Dusty Road is a significant find, even if it doesn't rewrite the Woody Guthrie tale. ~ Jeff Tamarkin

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.88) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "The sound quality is astonishing....Fingerpicked melodic fills emerge from surface noise, vocals step up to shake your hand."

Dirty Linen (p.56) - "[T]hese cuts sound amazing....Treasure it for the crystal-clear songs."

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