Going Down the Road with Woody Guthrie: A Centennial Celebration
American Routes heralds the 100th birthday of our nation's greatest roving troubadour and social commentator, Woody Guthrie, with a two-hour special dedicated to his life in music. 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 Elliott, 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 Travellin' 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. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
Excerpt: The Ballad of Tom Joad Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial 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, Audio CD to be published in 2012 by Woody
Guthrie Publications Inc.
Excerpt: Hard Times Woody Guthrie
From LOC Interview,
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 Gurthire Will Geer
Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways
This Land is Your Land Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Naturally, Daptone
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 Recordings, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways
Instrumental: This Land is Your Land Arlo Guthrie with the Dillards
32 Cents Postage Due, Rising Son 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, Audio CD to be published in 2012 by Woody
Guthrie Publications Inc.
Excerpt: People's Hootenany Woody Guthrie & the Almanac Singers
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Smithsonian Folkways
Excerpt: I Know the Night Jackson Browne, Rob Wasseman & Woody Guthrie
Note of Hope, 429 Records
Excerpt: I'm Blowing Down This Old Dusty Road Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl Ballads, BMG
Excerpt: So Long It's Been Good To Know You Woody Guthrie and 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, Audio CD to be published in 2012 by 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, Smithsonian Folkways
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, Audio CD to be published in 2012 by Woody
Guthrie Publications Inc.
Excerpt: Bound for Glory Jimi Zhivago
My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie’s Town, Audio CD to be published in 2012 by Woody
Guthrie Publications Inc.
Talking Hard Work Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
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