When I was a teenager in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1960s I was a dedicated reader of Sing Out! Magazine. I couldn’t always afford to buy it but the music store where I took guitar lessons let me read each new issue as I waited for my bus ride home. I also lived for the reprints from Sing Out! and that’s where I first heard of Woody Guthrie. I read of his passing in the pages of Sing Out! in 1967. Elektra Records has released “Home in this World,” a collection of new renditions of some of his Dust Bowl Ballads. Selections from that CD, classic versions of Woody’s songs and songs about Woody Guthrie … this week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/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