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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
GOING DOWN THE ROAD... WOODY GUTHRIE IN WORDS AND MUSIC
American Routes heralds our nation’s greatest roving troubadour and social commentator, Woody Guthrie. We’ll visit with friends and relatives who share tales of Guthrie’s trials and triumphs, from Okemah, Oklahoma to Coney Island, New York. Guthrie’s children, Nora and Arlo, reflect on their father’s life, scholar Guy Logsdon discusses Guthrie’s Dust Bowl days and Pete Seeger shares the backstory to Woody’s anthem for the “down and outers.” Plus music and memories from Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Moses Asch, Bob Dylan and so many others.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Woody Guthrie
My Dusty Road, Rounder - Philadelphia Lawyer Rose Maddox
Sing a Little Song of Heartache, Bear Family - I. Oklahoma
- excerpt: Oklahoma Hills James Talley
Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home, Cimarron - excerpt: Hen Cackle Woody Guthrie
Muleskinner Blues, Smithsonian Folkways - Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways - II. From Pampa, TX to Los Angeles
- excerpt: Big City Ways Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore) Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways - I Ain't Got No Home Bruce Springsteen
A Vision Shared , Columbia - excerpt: I Ain't Got Nobody Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 , Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: Square Dance Medley Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
My Dusty Road, Rounder - III. Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath
- excerpt: Talking Dust Bowl Blues Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG - Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. I, Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: The Ballad of Tom Joad Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centenial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: I Don't Feel at Home on the Bowery No More Jimi Zhivago
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. - excerpt: Hard Times Woody Guthrie
- Sowing on the Mountain The Flatlanders
Hills and Valleys, Nonesuch - Instrumental: Train Breakdown Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
My Dusty Road , Rounder - excerpt: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees) Los Super Seven
Los Super Seven, RCA - IV. Greed
- excerpt: Do Re Mi Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways - California Stars Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch - End Bed: Blood of the Lamb Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Nonesuch
HOUR two
- Open Bed: So Long It's Been Good to Know You Woody Guthrie
Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways - I. This Land is Your Land
- Will Geer Reading Woody Guthrie Will Geer
Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways - This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Naturally, Daptones - excerpt: This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: When the World Is On Fire The Carter Family
In The Shadow of the Clinch Mountain , Bear Family - excerpt: This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recording, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: This Land is Your Land Arlo Guthrie with the Dillards
32 Cents Postage Due , Rising Sun Records - II. NYC
- excerpt: "New York Town" Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. - excerpt: People's Hootenany Woody Guthrie & Almanac Singers
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: I Know the Night Jackson Browne, Rob Wasseman & Woody Guthrie
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , 429 Records - excerpt: I'm Blowin' Down This Old Dusty Road Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG - excerpt: So Long It's Been Good To Know You Woody Guthrie w. Cisco Houston
That's Why We're Marching: World War II and the American Folk Song Movement, Smithsonian Folkways - excerpt: Untitled Jimi Zhivago
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. - We Shall Be Free Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Folkways - Instrumental: Not Fade Away/ Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead , Rhino - Vigilante Man Ry Cooder
Into the Purple Valley, Reprise - Pretty Boy Floyd Bob Dylan
Folkways: A Vision Shared, Columbia - III. Woody as a writer
- excerpt: Hard Ain't It Hard Jimi Zhivago and Boo Reiners
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town , Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. - excerpt: Bound for Glory Jimi Zhivago
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town, Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. - Talking Hard Work Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - Why, Oh Why Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways - IV. Fighting Huntington's
- excerpt: Talkin' New York Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan, Columbia - excerpt: Ramblin' Round Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways - End Bed: Raincrow Bill Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston
My Dusty Road, Rounder
