Woody Guthrie discography
The discography of Woody Guthrie is somewhat difficult to construct. The published recordings are culled from a series of recording sessions in the 1940s and 1950s, at the time they were recorded they were not set down for a particular album, so are found here and there over several albums and not exactly in chronological order. The more detailed section on recording sessions lists the song by recording date.
Selected published discography
Recording sessions
The list here is organized by recording session and is mostly sourced from the discography put together by Dr. Guy Lodgson in 1990-1991 at the Smithsonian Institution as it appears in the book "Hard Travelin' The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie". [19]
- Note: A blank cell below a date indicate that the date is repeated on that row.
1940, Library Of Congress, Washington, DC sessions with Alan Lomax
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument United States Department of Interior, Radio Broadcasting Division, interviewed by Alan Lomax[20] Monologue; Boyhood of Woody Guthrie 3407 & 3408 March 21 1940 The Train (Lost Train Blues) 3407-A Guitar / Harmonica Railroad Blues 3407-B Harmonica Rye Whiskey 3408-A,B1 Vocals / Guitar Old Joe Clark 3408-B2 Vocals / Guitar Beaumont Rag 3408-B3 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue on the "Green Valley Waltz" 3408-B4 Green Valley Waltz 3409-A Vocals / Guitar Monologue on the youth of Woody Guthrie 3409-A,B1 Greenback Dollar 3409-B1 Vocals / Guitar / Harmonies Boll Weevil Song 3409-B2 Vocals / Guitar / Harmonies Midnight Special 3410-A1 Vocals / Guitar / Harmonies Dialogue on Dust Storms 3410-A2,B1 So Long It's Been Good to Know You 3410-B2 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue on the Dust Bowl 3410-B3 Dialogue on the Dust Bowl, cont. 3411-A1 Talking Dust Bowl Blues 3411-A2,B1 Dialogue on Experiences in California 3411-B2 Do-Re-Mi 3411-B3 Vocals /Guitar / Harmonica Hard Times 3412-A1 March 22 1940 Vocals / Guitar Bring Me Back to My Blue Eyed Boy 3412-A2 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue on Love Songs 3412-A3 Dialogue on Outlaws 3412-B1 Billy the Kid 3412-B2 Vocals / Guitar (Fragment) Pretty Boy Floyd 3412-B3 Vocals / Guitar Pretty Boy Floyd, cont 3413-A Dialogue about Jesse James 3413-B1 Vocals / Guitar They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave 3413-B2 Vocals / Guitar They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave, cont. 3414-A1 Vocals / Guitar I'm a Jolly Banker 3414-A2 Dialogue on Bankers 3414-A2,3 I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore 3414-A3B1 Vocals / Guitar / Harmonica Dirty Overhauls 3414-B2 Vocals / Guitar Dirty Overhauls, cont 3415-A1 'Mary Fagen' and Dialogue 3415-A2B1 Vocals / Guitar Chain Around My Leg 3415-B2 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue on the Blues 3416-A1 The Bluest Blues (900 Miles?) 3416-A2 Worried Man Blues 3416-B1 Vocals / Guitar Church House Blues - Lonesome Valley 3416-B2 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue on Walking Railroad Ties 3416-B2 Monologue Railroads and Men Out of Work 3417-A Railroad Line Blues 3417-B1 Vocals / Guitar Goin' Down the Frisco Line 3417-B2 Vocals / Guitar I'm Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad 3418-A1 Vocals / Guitar Seven Cent Cotton 3418-A2 Vocals / Guitar (fragment) Wagon Yard Blues 3418-A3 Vocals / Guitar (fragment) Dust Bowl Refugees 3418-B1 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue about man going to California for contract work 3418-B2 Dialogue about man going to California for contract work, cont. 3419-A Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) and dialogue 3419-B1 Vocals / Guitar I'm Sittin' on the Foggy Mountain Top 3419-B2 Vocals / Guitar Story Of Oil Booms and Dust Storms 3420-A1 March 27 1940 Dust Pneumonia Blues 3420-A2 Vocals / Guitar Dust Bowl Blues 3420-B1 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue about California 3420-B1 California Blues 3420-B2 Vocals / Guitar Dialogue about Jimmy Rogers and "California Blues" 3421-A Do-Re-Mi 3421-B1 Vocals / Guitar Living conditions in California 3421-B1 Dust Bowl Refugees 3422-A Vocals / Guitar Dialogue about Okies in California, Pride in Oklahoma, and Wil Rogers 3422-B1 Highway 66 / Wil Rogers Highway 3423-A1 Vocals / Guitar New Years Flood 3423-A2 Vocals / Guitar Songs by Woody Guthrie and Guitar, Recorded in the Phonoduplication Studio by Alan Lomax and John Langenegger Stewball 4491-A1 Jan 4 1941 Vocals / Guitar Stagolee 4491-A2 Vocals / Guitar One Dime Blues 4491-A3 Vocals / Guitar Woopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Doggies 4491-B1 Vocals / Guitar Trail To Mexico 4491-B2 Vocals / Guitar (fragment) The Gypsy Davy 4491-B3 Vocals / Guitar There is a House in this Old Town 4491-B4 Vocals / Guitar American Studio of the Air, Radio Show
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Boll Weevil Library of Congress (LOC) 4507A4 April 2 1940 Harmonica / Vocals / Guitar with the Golden Gate Quartet It's Hard on We Poor Farmers LOC 4507A3 Harmonica / Alan Lomax on Guitar & Vocals Train Blues LOC 4508A1 Harmonica So Long, It's Been Good To Know You LOC 4508A2 Harmonica / Vocals / Alan Lomax on Guitar Talking Dust Storm LOC 4508A3 Vocals Guitar 1940, RCA Victor Sessions, Dust Bowl Ballads
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument *The Great Dust Storm ("Dust Storm Disaster") (26622-A) BS-050145-1 April 26 1940 Guitar *Talking Dust Bowl Blues (26619-A) BS-050146-2 Guitar Dust Pnemunonia Blues (26623-B) BS-050147-1 Guitar *Dusty Old Dust ("So Long It's Been Good To Know You") (26622-B) BS-050148-1 Guitar Dust Bowl Blues LPV-502, BS-050149-1 Guitar *Blowin Down This Road ("I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way") (26619-B) BS-050150-1 Guitar / Harmonica *Tom Joad pt 1 (26621-A) BS-050151-1 Guitar / Harmonica *Tom Joad pt 2 (26621-B) BS-050152-1 Guitar Do Re Mi (26620-A) BS-050153-1 Guitar *Dust Bowl Refugee (26623-A) BS-050154-1 Guitar / Harmonica I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore (26624-A) BS-050155-1 Guitar / Harmonica Vigilante Man (26624-B) BS-050156-1 Guitar / Harmonica *Dust Can't Kill Me (26620-B) BS-050600-1 Guitar / Harmonica Pretty Boy Floyd LPV 502, BS-050601-1 Guitar * These recording were released on the record Talking Dust Bowl on Folkways Records in 1950 by Moe Asch, but without RCA's licences. All these recordings were made by RCA Records in 1940 and released on the albums Dust Bowl Ballads vol 1 and 2. These records have been subsequently reisuued in 1964 and 1977. [19]
1941, Bonneville Power Administration, The Columbia River Songs
The masters of this session were lost, but a collection of 6 discs was collected from BPA employee copies from the time. Most were eventually released on Rounder Records Woody Guthrie, Columbia River Collection C1036 in 1987[21]. The 6 discs are housed in the National Archives, Washington D.C.. The catalogue numbers here relate to National Archive listings.
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Pastures of Plenty 305.01 May 1941 Vocals / Guitar The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done 305.01 Vocals / Guitar Roll Columbia, Roll 305.01 Vocals / Guitar Washington Talkin' Blues 305.02 Vocals / Guitar The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done 305.02 Vocals / Guitar Ramblin' Blues (Portland Town) 305.03 Vocals / Guitar It Takes a Married Man to Sing A Worried Song 305.03 Vocals / Guitar Song of the Grand Coulee Dam ("Way Up in That Northwest") 305.03 Vocals / Guitar Roll On, Columbia 305.04 Vocals / Guitar The Grand Coulee Dam 305.04 Vocals / Guitar Jackhammer Blues 305.05 Vocals / Guitar The Grand Coulee Dam 305.05 Vocals / Guitar Columbia Waters 305.05 Vocals / Guitar Talking Columbia Blues 305.05 Vocals / Guitar Unissued LOC Recordings: Home Disc Recordings & 1941 Almanac Singers
Series of Discs for the Library of Congress, recorded by the Almanac Singers, only those written by or featuring Woody Guthrie are included here. Notes are Woody's parts.
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Round and Round Hitler's Grave 6100-B February 1942 Guitar Hulaballobalay 6101-A Guitar Taking it Easy 6101-B Guitar Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done 6102-B Guitar / Vocals High Cost of Living 6103-A Guitar Sinking of the Ruben James 6103-B Guitar Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad 6105-A Guitar Pretty Boy Floyd 4793-A August 1941 Vocals Keynote Recordings
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Song for Bridges QB 1548 June 1941 Guitar / Vocals * Babe O' Mine QB 1549 Guitar / Vocals * Boomtown Bill x-5000 June 1942 * Keep That Oil a Rollin' QB 1548 June 1942 Vocals * Songs that have been released on Songs for Political Action, Bear Family Records BCD 15270
General Records
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho 5015-A, R-4160 July 1941 Away Rio 5017-A, R-4161 Harmonica Blow the Man Down 5016-A, R-4162 Vocals The Golden Vanity 5017-B, R-4174 Harmonica The Coast of Old Barbary 5015-B, R-4176 Harmonica Haul Away Joe 5015-B, R-4176 House of the Rising Sun 5020-B, R-4163 Ground Hog 5018-B, R-4164 State of Arkansas 5019-B, R-4165 I Ride an Old Paint 5020-A, R-4169 Vocals / Guitar Hard Ain't It Hard 5019-B, R-4170 Harmonica The Dodger Song 5018-A, R-4171 Harmonica The Weavers Song R-4168 Greenland Fishing R-4172 The Martins and the Coys: A Contemporary Folk Tale
Recorded by Decca Records in March 1944, and written by Elizabeth Lomax. Alan Lomax shopped this around but no stations were interested, eventually it was sold the BBC. The recordings included Woody as well as several members of the Almanac singers.
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument You Better Get Ready March 1944 Vocal / Guitar w/Sonny Terry on Harmonica You Fascists Are Bound to Lose Vocal / Guitar w/Sonny Terry on Harmonica Bound for the Mountains Group Vocals Run Boys Run Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair On Top of Old Smokey Gonna Take Everybody (All Work Together) When We March Into Berlin How Many Biscuts Can You Eat? Smokey Mountain Girls Turtle Dove Round and Round Hitler's Grave The Martins and the Coys 1944 & 1945, The Asch Recordings
Possibly Guthrie's most famous recordings, conducted over a series of days by Moses "Moe" Asch in 1944 and 1945. They were issued on a variety of labels under Asch, Asch-Stinson, Asch-Signature-Stinson, Disc, Folkways and Verve/Folkways.
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Hard Ain't It Hard LM-1 April 16 1944 More Pretty Girls Than One LM-2 Golden Vanity MA 1 April 19 1944 Recordings on this date w/ Cisco Houston When the Yanks Go Marching In MA 2 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You MA3 Dollar Down Dollar a Week MA4 Hen Cackle MA5 I Ain't Got Nobody MA6 Ida Red MA7 Columbus Stockade MA8 Whistle Blowing MA9 John Henry MA10 Hammer Ring ("Union Hammer") MA11 Muleskinner Blues ("New Road Line") MA12 What are We Waiting On ("Bloody Fight") LM-2 More Pretty Girls Than One MA13 Ship in the Sky ("My Daddy") MA14 The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done MA15 Stewball MA16 Grand Coulee Dam MA17 Talking Sailor ("Talking Merchant Marine") MA18 Talking Sailor ("Talking Merchant Marine") MA19 Talking Sailor ("Talking Merchant Marine") MA20 New York Town ("My Town") MA21 Talking Sailor ("Talking Merchant Marine") MA22 Reckless Talk MA23 Reckless Talk MA24 Last Nickle Blues MA25 Guitar Rag MA26 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet ("Don't Need No Man") MA27 (Those) Brown Eyes MA28 Chisholm Trail MA29 Sowing on the Mountains MA30 Sowing on the Mountains MA31 Right Now MA32 Train-Harmonica MA33 Sally Don't You Grieve MA34 Take a Wiff on Me MA35 Philadelphia Lawyer MA36 Kissing On ("Gave Her Kisses") MA37 Little Darling MA38 Baltimore to Washington ("Troubles Too") MA39 Poor Boy MA40 Poor Boy MA41 Ain't Nobody's Business MA42 Take Me Back Babe MA43 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad ("Lonesome Road Blues") MA44 Bed on the Floor MA45 One Big Union ("Join It Yourself") MA46 Worried Man Blues MA47 What Did the Deep Say? MA48 Foggy Mountain Top MA49 21 Years MA50 Roving Gambler ("Gambling Man") MA51 Cindy MA52 Into Season MA53 Red River Valley MA55 Dead or Alive ("Poor Lazarus") MA56 Pretty Boy MA57 John Hardy MA58 Bad Lee Brown ("Cocaine Blues") MA59 Whistle Blowing MA66 Billy The Kid MA67 "Stagger Lee" MA68 Down Yonder 674 April 20 1944 Guitar Blues 675 Harmonica Breakdown 676 Fox Chase 677 Train 678 Lost John 679 Pretty Baby 680 Old Dog a Bone 681 "Turkey in the Straw" 687 Give Me That Old Time Religion 688 Glory ("Walk and Talk with Jesus") 689 Hard Time Blues 690 Bus Blues 691 Devilish Mary 692 Cripple Creek 693 Sandy Land 694 Old Dan Tucker 695 April 24 1944 Bile Them Cabbage Down 696 Old Joe Clark 697 Buffalo Girls 698 Rain Crow Bill 699 Skip to my Lou 700 Lonesome Train 701, 702 Blues, Harmonica Breakdown 703, 704 Harmonica Rag 705,706 Crawdad Hole 707 Bury Me Beneath the Willow 708 I Ride an Old Paint 709 Blue Eyes 710 Going Down the Road Feeling Bad ("Lonesome Road Blues") 711 Old Dog a Bone 712 Having Fun 713 Blues 714 Talking Fishing Blues MA75 April 25 1944 Talking Sailor ("Talking Merchant Marine") MA76 Union Burial Ground MA77 Jesse James MA78 Rangers Command MA79 Sinking of the Ruben James MA80 Put My Little Shoes Away MA81 Picture From Life's Other Side MA82 Will You Miss Me MA83 Bed on the Floor MA84 900 Miles MA85 Sourwood Mountain MA86 Hoecake Baking MA87 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel MA88 Little Darling MA89 Lonesome Day MA90 Cumberland Gap MA91 Fiddling Piece MA92 "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" MA93 Step Stone MA94 "House of the Rising Sun" MA96 Browns Ferry Blues MA98 What Would You Give in Exchange For Your Soul? MA99 When That Ship Went Down MA99-1 Dust Bowl MA100 Guitar Rag MA101 I Ain't Got Nobody MA102 Going Down This Road Feeling Bad ("Lonesome Road Blues") MA103 Polly Wolly Doodle MA104 Guitar Rag 1230 Blowin' Down This Old Dusty Road 1231 Hey Lolly Lolly MA105 Budded Roses MA106 "House of the Rising Sun" MA107 I Don't Feel at Home in the Bowery MA108 Hobo's Lullaby MA109 Froggy Went a Courtin' MA110 Bad Reputation MA111 Snow Deer MA112 Ladies Auxiliary MA113 "This Land Is Your Land" MA114 Hang Knot ("Slip Knot) MA115 Breakdown MA116 Go Tell Aunt Rhody MA117 Union Going to Roll MA118 Who Broke the Lock on the Hen House Door MA119 What Did the Deep Sea Say MA120 Strawberry Roan MA121-1 When the Yanks Go Marching in MA122-1 Bed on the Floor MA123-1 We Shall Be Free MA124-1 Right Now MA125-1 Jackhammer John MA126-1 Woody MA127-1,127-2 Keep Your Skillit Good and Greasy MA129-1 Home MA130-1 Lost You MA131 Slip Knot ("Hang Knot") MA134 Jesus Christ MA135 Hobo Bill MA136 Little Black Train MA137 Cannon Ball MA138 Gypsy Davy MA139 Bile Them Cabbage Down MA140 Woody MA1240 May 8 1944 Get Along Little Dogies 860 March 1 1945 Waltz 861,862 Union Breakdown 863 Cackling Hen 864 Chisholm Trail 865 Bed on Your Floor 866 Rye Whiskey 867 Old Joe Clark 868 March 23 1945 Long Way to France 869 Woody Blues 870 Down Yonder 871 Gal I Left Behind 872 Mean Talking Blues 900 May 24 1945 "1913 Massacre" 901 Ludlow Massacre 902 Buffalo Skinners 903 Harriet Tubman 904,905 Many recordings have unknown session dates. These are included in a list available at the United States Library of Congress titled "Surviving Recordings in the Smithsonian Folklife Archive Made by Woody Guthrie for Moses Asch". Moe Asch says Woody's kids song were recorded sometime in early 1947 and the Sacco and Vanzetti ballads were recorded January 1947.
1947 Songs to Grow On
The recording dates for the Songs to Grow On series of children's song are mostly lost due to the record keeping of Moe Asch, but the tracks are included here as they are some of Guthrie's most well known tracks. In this case the Date is the release date of the original 78 records.
Title Catalogue No. Recording Date Notes / Instrument Songs to Grow On: Nursery Days issued 1947,1950,1951 Wake Up 5050A (D301) 1947 Clean-O 5050B (D302) Dance Around 5051A (D304) Put Your Finger in the Air 5051B (D303) Don't Push Me 5052A (D305) Jig Along Home 5052B (D306) My Dolly F52B1 Come See F52B2 Race You Down the Mountain F53A1 Pick it up F53A2 Merry Go Round F53B1 Sleepy Eyes F53B2 Honors
On September 6, 2007, Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc., in cooperation with the Woody Guthrie Foundation released The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949, accompanied by a 72-page book describing the performance and the project. Paul Braverman, a student at Rutgers University in 1949, made the recordings himself using a small wire recorder at a Guthrie concert in Newark, New Jersey.[10] On February 10, 2008, the release was the recipient of a Grammy Award in the category Best Historical Album.[11]
References
- ^ "Dust Bowl Ballads". FW05212 1964. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie". Vanguard Records. Archived from the original on 2008-03-21. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Columbia River Collection". Rounder Records. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Folkways: The Original Vision (Woody and Leadbelly)". SFW40000 2005. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Library of Congress Recordings". Rounder Records. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs". SFW40007 1989. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Struggle". SFW40025 1990. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Cowboy Songs on Folkways". SFW40043 1991. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child". SFW45035 1991. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Nursery Days". SFW45036 1992. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Long Ways to Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944-1949". SFW40046 1994. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti". SFW40060 1996. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol.1". SFW40100 1997. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2". SFW40101 1997. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol 3". Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-20. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "This Land Is Your Land, The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4". SFW40103 1999. Folkways. Archived from the original on 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949". Woody Guthrie Publications. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection". SFW40200 20120. Folkways. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
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