Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
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Free Music Review: Not your average communist.
Hit: 5 Stars
Great music, great lyrics, amazing sound. I, somehow, find difficult to believe that Woody would hate his own country like any nowadays communist.Free Music Review: Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one fantastic album, assuming you like folk music. It's now one of my favoritesFree Music Review: dust bowl ballads
Hit: 5 Stars
if you like folk music this is for you. tribute to a very talented manFree Music Review: Come, come.
Hit: 2 Stars
Historically significant? It sold very poorly in its day. On the other hand, Woody Guthrie became sort of a legend among "folk boom" college kids two decades later, mainly because Pete Seeger went about mythologizing Woody Guthrie (after Woody Guthrie went about mythologizing himself). The only really interesting thing I heard in this record happened to be its relation to the early work of a particular one of those college kids: Bob Dylan. Compare "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues" to "Talkin' New York" from Dylan's first album and Guthrie's harmonica to Dylan's harmonica. "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues" also spares us Woody Guthries unpleasant and out-of-tune singing voice. His speaking voice, on the other hand, is smooth and mild, the voice of a professional radio personality, which, by the way, Woody Guthrie WAS for a fair while.
Some reviewers seem to think Woody Guthrie composed music. No, he set his lyrics to existing music, mostly "Carter family" music, which to my ears is deadly boring. His lyrics are sometimes satirically on the mark, sometimes rambling, sometimes purple, a mixed bag.
I'd be curious to know how many of those who display this in their recollections actually ever take it out and listen to. I'd guess few.
My advice. Listen to this once (borrow it or something -- do NOT buy it) and read Joe Klein's outstanding Woody Guthrie biography. Then move on to something else.