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Essential Guthrie:
Like Dust Bowl Ballads, the Columbia River Collection can be a bit tedious - guitar & harmonica and Woody's vocals deliver traditional melodies and Woody's clever but unpretentious lyrics. Dust Bowl Ballads was a "concept album" before that term came into being, and so is this collection. Dust Bowl Ballads has a more homogeneous sound, as the songs were recorded during one session at a New York studio. The Columbia River Collection gathers recordings from here and there, so the sound and recording quality varies from song to song. But Woody wrote nearly all, if not all, of these songs during a month-long stint with the government-sponsored Bonneville Dam project. This collection is more optimistic than Dust Bowl Ballads; Woody only protests that Uncle Sam doesn't sponsor more projects like the Bonneville Dam. Woody was in his prime in the early 1940s, and every song here has some special quality to enlighten and amuse the listener. They celebrate Work and Utility and Ambition. Every American can be proud of them; most Americans will learn something from them.
| Artist: | Woody Guthrie | | Binding: | Audio CD | | EAN: | 0011661103627 | | Format: | Best of | | Original Release Date: | 1988-01-01 | | Release Date: | 2008-03-17 | | UPC: | 011661103627 |
Tracks:- Oregon Trail
- Roll on Columbia
- New Found Land
- Talking Columbia
- Roll Columbia, Roll
- Columbia's Waters
- Ramblin' Blues
- It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song
- Hard Travelin'
- Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
- Jackhammer Blues
- Song of the Coulee Dam
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Washington Talkin' Blues
- Ramblin' Round
- Pastures of Plenty
- End of My Line
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