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Episode #21-38 | airing 09-22-21
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Songs for Woody, Pt.1
Episode #21-38 | airing 09-22-21

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When I was a teenager in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1960s, I was a dedicated reader of Sing Out! I couldn’t always afford to buy a copy, but the music store where took guitar lessons let me read each new issue as I waited for my bus ride home. I also lived on the Reprints from Sing Out!, and usually bought those when they came out. They helped me become more aware of the folk music revival. I first heard of Woody Guthrie from the pages of those reprints. I already had an LP of some of his classic recordings, and was aware of Bob Dylan’s “Song to Woody,” when I read of his passing in the pages of Sing Out! in 1967. Elektra Records recently released Home in this World a collection of new renditions of some of his “Dust Bowl Ballads.” This episode and next we’ll celebrate that new recording, other classic Guthrie songs, and songs about him. It’s all about Woody … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Milnes and Hammond / “Sandy River Belle” / Hell Up Coal Holler / Shanachie
Shovels and Rope / “Dust Bowl Blues” / Home in this World-Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl
              Ballads / Elektra
Woody Guthrie / “Talking Dust Bowl Blues” / The Ultimate Collection / Not Now
John McCutcheon / “Ludlow Massacre” / This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America / Appalsongs

The Duhks / “Pretty Boy Floyd-Stoney Point” / Your Daughters & Your Sons / Sugar Hill
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot / “New York Town” / Jack Elliot Sings Songs of Woody Guthrie
              / Prestige-Folklore
Ry Cooder / “Jesus and Woody” / The Prodigal Son / Fantasy
Milnes and Hammond / “Red Buck-Jodie-West Fork Girls” / Hell Up Coal Holler / Shanachie

Watkins Family Hour / “Blowin’ Down this Dusty Road” / Home in this World-Woody
              Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads / Elektra
Woody Guthrie w/ Cisco Houston / “Train Ride Medley Part 1&2” / Long Ways to Travel
              / Smithsonian Folkways
The Maddox Brothers & Rose / “Philadelphia Lawyer” / Vol.1 / Arhoolie
Will Geer / “Reading Woody Guthrie” / Folkways The Original Vision / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways

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About Tom Druckenmiller

Tom has a long history with Sing Out! as a writer and regular contributor (for more than a decade) and deep and rich skills as a radio host and programmer of folk and roots music! He's been a folk musician and teacher for over forty years. Tom began playing and singing Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton songs, but fell in love with old-time music and the clawhammer banjo after hearing John McCutcheon at the legendary Bethlehem folk club Godfrey Daniels. He has studied with old-time music greats Dwight Diller, Riley Baugus and Norman and Nancy Blake … and has, himself, taught at many music camps and workshops including The Augusta Heritage Workshops (in Elkins WV), the Pocono Dulcimer Fest (in Stroudsburg PA) and the Maidencreek Old-Time Music Festival (in Blandon PA). Druckemiller’s continuing regular local radio gig “In The Tradition” has aired on WDIY-FM in Allentown PA for the past 16 years, and he also co-hosts the “Sunday Folk” program on the station.

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