Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs

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1962 compilation album

Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs

Compilation album
Released| 1962
Recorded| 1940s
Genre| Folk
Label| Folkways Records

Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs is a remastered compilation album of American folk songs sung by legend Woody Guthrie accompanied by Lead Belly, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, and Bess Lomax Hawes originally recorded for Moses Asch in the 1940s and re-released in 1989 by Folkways Records.

It was given a rating of four and a half by AllMusic, which described it as "an excellent representation of rural folk music that consolidated Guthrie's position as the newly fashionable genre's main progenitor."[1]

## Track listing

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1. Hard Traveling
2. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
3. "The House of the Rising Sun"
4. Nine Hundred Miles (Instrumental)
5. John Henry
6. Oregon Trail
7. We Shall Be Free
8. Dirty Overalls (My Dirty Overhauls)
9. Jackhammer Blues
10. Springfield Mountain
11. Brown Eyes
12. Boll Weevil Blues (Boll Weevil)
13. Guitar Blues (Instrumental)
14. Will You Miss Me?

## References

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1. ^ Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs - Woody Guthrie... | AllMusic, retrieved June 30, 2025

## External links

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* Smithsonian Folkways page

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Woody Guthrie

Studio albums|

* Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti
* Dust Bowl Ballads
* Songs To Grow On Volume One: Nursery Days
* Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child

Live albums|

* The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949

Compilations|

* Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs
* The Columbia River Collection
* Library of Congress Recordings
* The Asch Recordings
* The Very Best of Woody Guthrie
* My Dusty Road
* Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection

Almanac Singers|

* Talking Union
* Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads
* Sod Buster Ballads
* Dear Mr. President

Related|

* Discography
* Bound for Glory (1943 book)
* Bound for Glory (1976 film)
* Almanac Singers
* "This Land Is Your Land"
* "Old Man Trump
* "Grand Coulee Dam"
* Mermaid Avenue (Vol. I
* Vol. II
* The Complete Sessions)
* Man in the Sand
* This machine kills fascists
* Roll on Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River Songs
* People's Songs
* Woody Guthrie Center
* Woody Guthrie Foundation
* Woody Guthrie Folk Festival
* "Song to Woody"
* "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"

Family|

* Marjorie Mazia Guthrie (wife)
* Arlo Guthrie (son)
* Nora Guthrie (daughter)
* Jack Guthrie (cousin)
* Sarah Lee Guthrie (granddaughter)
* Aliza Greenblatt (mother-in-law)

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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