The first in a series of four, this recording presents many of Woody Guthrie's best known songs taken from the original masters. Included here is the original version of Woody's anthem "This Land Is Your Land," which contains never-before issued lyrics. A major force in the urban folk song revival, Guthrie created an intimate portrait of America - its land and people. He has influenced many contemporary artists, among them Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Billy Bragg, and Bruce Springsteen. During the 1930s and 40s, Woody Guthrie wrote more than a thousand songs, recording hundreds of them for Folkways founder Moses Asch. The surviving masters now reside in the Folkways archive at the Smithsonian Institution.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. This Land is Your Land
2. Car Song
3. Rambling Round
4. Talking Fishing Blues
5. Philadelphia Lawyer
6. Lindbergh
7. Hobo's Lullaby
8. Pastures of Plenty
9. Grand Coulee Dam
10. End of the Line
11. New York Town
12. Gypsy Davy
13. Jesus Christ
14. This Land is Your Land
15. Do-Re-Mi
16. Jarama Valley
17. Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done, The
18. Picture from Life's Other Side, A
19. Jesse James
20. Talking Hard Work
21. When That Great Ship Went Down
22. Hard Ain't it Hard
23. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
24. I Ain't Got Nobody
25. Sinking of the Reuben James, The
26. Why, Oh Why?
27. This Land is Your Land (reprise)