Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Ballads

 

Genre: Folk, Country

Dates: 1940

The soundtrack to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, in 14 songs. "Some folks rob you with a six-gun/And some with a fountain pen," huh? "The gambling man is rich/And the working man is poor"? Indeed. Besides his epic "Tom Joad" (in two parts), many of Guthrie's masterpieces are here, such "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Do Re Mi," "I Ain't Got No Home," and "Vigilante Man," making it essential listening for any young populist.

Playlist:

1. Great Dust Storm, The (Dust Storm Disaster)
2. I Ain't Got No Home
3
. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
4.
Vigilante Man
5.
Dust Can't Kill Me
6. Dust Pneumonia Blues
7. Pretty Boy Floyd
8.
Blowin' Down The Road (I Ain't Gonna To Be Treated This Way)
9. Tom Joad (Part 1)
10.
Tom Joad (Part 2)
11.
Dust Bowl Refugee
12.
Do Re Mi
13. Dust Bowl Blues
14.
Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
15. Dust Bowls Blues - (alternate take)