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Dust Bowl Ballads

Album

Dust Bowl Ballads

Woody Guthrie

1940Singer/Songwriter · Music · Traditional Folk · Spoken Word

The album that made him the godfather of American folk.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Buddha Records
Tracks
15

℗ 2000 Buddha Records

Tracks

  1. 1
    The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
    Woody Guthrie
    3:17
  2. 2
    Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
    Woody Guthrie
    2:38
  3. 3
    Pretty Boy Floyd
    Woody Guthrie
    3:07
  4. 4
    Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
    Woody Guthrie
    3:05
  5. 5
    Dust Bowl Blues
    Woody Guthrie
    3:24
  6. 6
    Blowin' Down This Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way)
    Woody Guthrie
    3:01
  7. 7
    Tom Joad, Pt. 1
    Woody Guthrie
    3:23
  8. 8
    Tom Joad, Pt. 2
    Woody Guthrie
    3:26
  9. 9
    Do Re Mi
    Woody Guthrie
    2:32
  10. 10
    Dust Bowl Refugee
    Woody Guthrie
    3:04
  11. 11
    I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
    Woody Guthrie
    2:43
  12. 12
    Vigilante Man
    Woody Guthrie
    3:20
  13. 13
    Dust Cain't Kill Me
    Woody Guthrie
    2:53
  14. 14
    Dust Pneumonia Blues
    Woody Guthrie
    2:39

About this album

The stories that Woody Guthrie tells of surviving the Dust Bowl on his first album feel as relevant today as they did in 1940. His compellingly real, almost journalistic accounts of violence on the bluegrass stomper "Vigilante Man" and desperation on the weighty "Dust Pneumonia Blues" bring the horrors of that turbulent era to life. The ironically jaunty tune of "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" deliberately clashes with lyrical references to police aggression, unchecked greed, and ruined families.