Folkways: The Original Vision

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 4 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Sylvie
Lead Belly feat. Anne Graham1:01
2Pretty Boy Floyd
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-19)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-19)
recording of:
Pretty Boy Floyd (on 1944-04-19)
writer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
Woody Guthrie3:03
3Do Re Mi
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
recording of:
Do Re Mi
writer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
Woody Guthrie2:33
4I Ain't Got No Home
guitar and harmonica:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Asch Recordings and Folkways Records
recorded at:
Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., United States (from 1940-03-21 until 1940-03-22)
recording of:
I Ain’t Got No Home
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1938)
Woody Guthrie2:47
5Jesus Christ
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1944-04)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1944-04)
recording of:
Jesus Christ (in 1944-04)
additional lyricist:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
writer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
Woody Guthrie2:46
6Rock Island Line
recording of:
Rock Island Line
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
publisher:
Folkways Music Publishers Inc.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 15211)
Lead Belly2:34
74, 5, and 9
Lead Belly feat. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee2:23
8Will Geer Reading Guthrie
Will Geer0:56
9Hard Travelling
Woody Guthrie2:13
10Fannin Street
recording of:
Fannin Street (in 1941)
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
Lead Belly3:27
11Philadelphia Lawyer
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-19) and Cisco Houston (on 1944-04-19)
background vocals [harmony]:
Cisco Houston (on 1944-04-19)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-19)
recording of:
Philadelphia Lawyer (on 1944-04-19)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
Woody Guthrie2:32
12Hobo's Lullaby
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-25)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (on 1944-04-25)
cover recording of:
Hobo’s Lullaby (on 1944-04-25)
lyricist and composer:
Goebel Reeves
Woody Guthrie2:27
13The Bourgeois Blues
guitar:
Lead Belly (in 1944-05)
vocals:
Lead Belly (in 1944-05)
recording of:
The Bourgeois Blues (in 1944-05)
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
arranger:
Alan Lomax (US ethnomusicologist) and John A. Lomax
Lead Belly2:20
14Gray Goose
Lead Belly1:52
15Goodnight Irene
recording of:
Goodnight Irene
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ledbetter and John A. Lomax
publisher:
Lodlow Music, Spencer Music Corp., TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. and Tyler Music Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11681)
translated version of:
Godnatt Irene
Lead Belly1:56
16Vigilante Man
producer:
Robert P. Wetherald
guitar and harmonica:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Buddah Records (revived/renamed in 1998 as Buddha Records), Folkways Records, RCA Victor and Victor Records (defunct “His Master’s Voice” imprint, succeeded by RCA Victor)
recorded at:
Victor Studio #2 (Cherokee B) in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1940-04-26)
recording of:
Vigilante Man (on 1940-04-26)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1940)
publisher:
Ludlow Music, Inc.
Woody Guthrie53:25
17This Land Is Your Land
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1946)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1946)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 229)
recording of:
This Land Is Your Land (in 1946)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1940)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 16378)
is based on:
When the World's on Fire
Woody Guthrie42:20
18Woody's Rag (Hard Work)
Woody Guthrie3:36
19The Midnight Special
guitar:
Lead Belly (in 1948)
vocals:
Lead Belly (in 1948)
recording of:
Midnight Special (in 1948)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Union Songs AB (publisher)
Lead Belly2:05
20We Shall Be Free
recording of:
We Shall Be Free
lyricist and composer:
Huddie William Ledbetter
Lead Belly & Woody Guthrie feat. Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry3:01