Name: Dust Bowl Ballads [Buddha]
Brand: Woody Guthrie

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74321578392

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Limited edition

Release date

2017-02-03

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Sony

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Standard:20

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743215783923

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Woody Guthrie

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Folk

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Doxy

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American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Woody Guthrie, is known for his extensive musical legacy. He composed hundreds of political, traditional, and children's songs, as well as ballads and improvised works.

Born on July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma, Guthrie passed away on October 3, 1967 at Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens, New York. He was the older brother of Mary Jo Guthrie-Edgmon. During his second marriage to Marjorie Guthrie from 1945 to 1953, they had four children together: Cathy Ann (1943-1947), Arlo Guthrie, Joady Guthrie, and Nora Canoni. His grandchildren include Abe Guthrie, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Cathy Greenblatt Lasker (Arlo's children), Anna Canoni (Nora's daughter), and Cole Quest Rotante.

Guthrie's contributions were recognized by various institutions. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 under the category "Early Influence." His music continues to inspire generations of artists such as Pete Seeger , Cisco Houston , Ramblin' Jack Elliott , Dave Van Ronk , Phil Ochs , Utah Phillips , The Almanac Singers , Lead Belly , Elizabeth Cotten , Dock Boggs Jean Ritchie Tom Paxton The

Dust Bowl Ballads constitutes a consistent concept album that roughly follows the outlines of John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath. (Indeed, "Tom Joad" is nothing less than the plot of the book set to music.) The story begins, as "The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)" has it, "On the fourteenth day of April of 1935," when a giant dust storm hits the Great Plains, transforming the landscape. Shortly after, the farmers pack up their families and head west, where they have been promised there is work aplenty picking fruit in the lush valleys of California. The trip is eventful, as "Talking Dust Bowl Blues" humorously shows, but the arrival is disappointing, as the Okies discover California is less than welcoming to those who don't bring along some "do[ough] re mi." <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/guthrie-mn0000577531">Guthrie</a>'s songs go back and forth across this tale of woe, sometimes focusing on the horrors of the dust storm, sometimes on human villains, with deputy sheriffs and vigilantes providing particular trouble. In "Pretty Boy Floyd," he treats an ancillary subject, as the famous outlaw is valorized as a misunderstood Robin Hood. <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/guthrie-mn0000577531">Guthrie</a> treats his subject alternately with dry wit and defiance, and listeners in 1940 would have been conscious of the deliberate contrast with <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmie-rodgers-mn0000343852">Jimmie Rodgers</a>, whose music is evoked even as he is being mocked in "Dust Pneumonia Blues." Sixty years later, listeners may hear these songs through the music <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/guthrie-mn0000577531">Guthrie</a> influenced, particularly the folk tunes of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915">Bob Dylan</a>. Either way, this is powerful music, rendered simply and directly. It was devastatingly effective when first released, and it helped define all the folk music that followed it.

Dust Bowl Ballads [Buddha]

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