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Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

In honor of the Woody Guthrie Centennial, Smithsonian Folkways presents an in-depth commemorative collection of songs, photos and essays on one of America’s most treasured 20th-century icons.

Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is a 150-page large-format book with 3 CDs containing 57 tracks, including Woody’s most important recordings such as the complete version of “This Land Is Your Land,” “Pretty Boy Floyd,” “I Ain’t Got No Home in This World Anymore,” and “Riding in My Car.” The set also contains 21 previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard original songs, including Woody’s first known—and recently discovered—recordings from 1939.

Richly illustrated with photos, artifacts and Woody’s visual art and lyrics—plus extensive essays on Guthrie and his songs—Woody at 100 commemorates and displays the genius of one of the greatest songwriters, musicians and visual artists of the 20th century.

The book features essays by co-producers Robert Santelli, executive director of the GRAMMY Museum and author of “This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song,” and Jeff Place, GRAMMY-winning archivist for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and producer of several Woody Guthrie collections and exhibitions.

Four of the unreleased performances, including original songs “Skid Row Serenade” and “Them Big City Ways,” are Woody’s earliest known recordings, made in 1939 while he was working for KFVD radio station in Los Angeles. The set also includes a medley performed in 1940 on Lead Belly’s WNYC radio show. The other four unreleased original songs are “Trouble on the Waters” and “Normandy Was Her Name” from a live radio broadcast and “Reckless Talk” and “Goodnight Little Cathy” discovered in the Folkways Records archives. The book offers an extensive biography of the artist and background information on each track.

Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (1912-1967) wrote songs that became the soundtrack of an era and permanent fixtures of American identity. His early Dust Bowl ballads, along with more than 3,000 work songs, union and labor songs, political and philosophical songs, anti-war songs, anti-Nazi songs, love songs and children’s songs, marked the pulse of hard-hit people in times of economic depression and war. Many have embraced “This Land Is Your Land” as America's second national anthem. Woody was ordinary, yet extraordinary—a traveler, itinerant worker, radio performer, military enlistee, thinking man, gifted visual artist, a husband and father, and prolific writer who left his mark on music, culture and politics.

Track Listing

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This Land Is Your Land (Alternate Version) Woody Guthrie 02:44
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Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie 02:25
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Riding in My Car (Car Song) Woody Guthrie 01:49
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The Grand Coulee Dam Woody Guthrie 02:10
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Talking Dust Bowl Woody Guthrie 01:51
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So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) Woody Guthrie 03:40
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Ramblin' Round Woody Guthrie 02:14
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Philadelphia Lawyer Woody Guthrie 02:28
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Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie 02:31
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Pretty Boy Floyd Woody Guthrie 03:00
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Hobo's Lullaby Woody Guthrie 02:23
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Talking Columbia Woody Guthrie 02:28
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The Sinking of the Reuben James Woody Guthrie 03:00
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Jesus Christ Woody Guthrie 02:37
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Gypsy Davy Woody Guthrie 02:49
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New York Town Woody Guthrie 02:35
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Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad) Woody Guthrie 02:56
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Hard, Ain't It Hard Woody Guthrie 02:42
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The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (The Great Historical Bum) Woody Guthrie 02:17
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This Land Is Your Land (Standard Version) Woody Guthrie 02:16
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Jarama Valley Woody Guthrie 02:52
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Why, Oh Why? Woody Guthrie 03:27
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I've Got to Know Woody Guthrie 05:32
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Better World A-Comin' Woody Guthrie 03:05
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When That Great Ship Went Down (The Great Ship) Woody Guthrie 03:17
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A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week Woody Guthrie 01:35
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Talking Centralia Woody Guthrie 03:24
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1913 Massacre Woody Guthrie 03:35
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Dirty Overalls Woody Guthrie 01:55
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My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky) Woody Guthrie 02:33
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Worried Man Blues Woody Guthrie 02:58
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Hangknot, Slipknot Woody Guthrie 02:30
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Buffalo Skinners Woody Guthrie 03:16
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Howdi Do Woody Guthrie 01:40
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Jackhammer John Woody Guthrie 02:36
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The Ranger’s Command Woody Guthrie 02:49
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So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (WWII Version) Woody Guthrie 02:45
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What Are We Waiting On? Woody Guthrie 02:07
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Lindbergh Woody Guthrie 03:10
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Ludlow Massacre Woody Guthrie 03:28
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Bad Lee Brown (Cocaine Blues) Woody Guthrie 02:14
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Two Good Men Woody Guthrie 03:45
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Farmer-Labor Train Woody Guthrie 02:49
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The Jolly Banker Woody Guthrie 02:50
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We Shall Be Free Woody Guthrie 03:01
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I Ain’t Got No Home (In This World Anymore) Woody Guthrie 03:26
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Them Big City Ways Woody Guthrie 02:27
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Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie 03:33
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Skid Row Serenade Woody Guthrie 03:00
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Radio Program: The Ballad Gazette With Woody Guthrie [This Land Is Your Land; What Did the Deep Sea Say?; Blow Ye Winds; Trouble on the Waters; Blow the Man Down; Normandy Was Her Name; The Sinking of the Reuben James] Woody Guthrie 14:20
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BBC: Children’s Hour July 7, 1944 [Intro - Wabash Cannonball; 900 Miles; Stagger Lee; Pretty Boy Floyd] Woody Guthrie 10:19
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People’s Songs Hootenanny [Ladies Auxiliary; Weaver's Life] Woody Guthrie 08:53
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WNYC Radio Program: Folk Songs of America December 12, 1940 [John Hardy; Jesse James; Tom Joad] Woody Guthrie 16:24
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Reckless Talk Woody Guthrie 01:42
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All Work Together Woody Guthrie 02:39
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My Little Seed Woody Guthrie 02:30
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Goodnight Little Cathy Woody Guthrie 02:20