WOODY GUTHRIE Dust Bowl Ballads 1964 FOLKWAYS w/SIX PAGE INSERT - NEAR MINT
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£ 39
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Dec 30, 2015
Sold Date
Dec 20, 2015
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WOODY GUTHRIE Dust Bowl Ballads 1964 FOLKWAYS w/SIX PAGE INSERT - NEAR MINT
WOODY GUTHRIEDust Bowl Ballads
1964 US FOLKWAYS RECORDS (FH 5212) PRESSING
AN OUTSTANDING *NEAR MINT* COPY - THE COVER IS STILL IN SHRINK AND THE SET IS COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SIX PAGE TRI-FOLD LYRIC INSERT
Woody Guthrie recorded the songs for Dust Bowl Ballads in 1940, and they were released on two three-disc albums of 78s by RCA Victor Records.
Victor eventually let the sets go out of print, and after Guthrie wrote to the label asking for a reissue in the new LP era and got a negative response, he authorised Folkways Records to copy the discs and, in October 1950, put out its own 10" LP version, which was called Talking Dust Bowl.
RCA protested, but, in the face of Guthrie's go-ahead, backed off, probably figuring a court battle wasn't worth the effort.
That gave Folkways tacit permission to do a second reissue as a 12" LP called Dust Bowl Ballads in 1964, by which time Guthrie had become a much hotter property and RCA was issuing its own LP version.
The Folkways disc re-creates the contents of the two albums of 78s in the same running order, but combines the two parts of "Tom Joad" (which was too long to be pressed on a single side of a 78) into one track.
Although not taken from the original masters, the tracks sound fine, since the recordings were so simple and unadorned to begin with.
This was Guthrie's only extensive work for a major label, and the professionalism of the sessions far outshines the more casual recordings Guthrie later made for Moses Asch, founder of Folkways.
The music remains a devastating, and at times quite funny, look at the Dust Bowl Diaspora of the 1930s, with farmers dispossessed of their land by a combination of weather conditions and bank foreclosures, heading out west where they became poor, abused migrant workers.
Guthrie alternates between reporting the story, commenting on it humorously, and embodying the characters of the Okies with whom he identifies in songs that proved enormously influential on the folk revival
Side 1:
Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
I'm Blowing Down
Do Re Mi
Dust Can't Kill Me
Tom Joad (parts 1 and 2)
Side 2:
The Great Dust Storm
Dusty Old Dust
Dust Bowl Refugee
Dust Pneumonia Blues
I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
Vigilante Man
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean labels - one spindle trace on one side, none on the other - barely played
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Great sound - crystal clear with a nice loud cut - plays beautifully with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The cover with pasted on wraparound photo is till in the original shrink-wrap
INSERT: NEAR MINT
Again, great condition - soft crease to top corner and light age-related discolouration - nothing major
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC INNER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
I will combine postage for items purchased within any 10 day period (@£2 for each additional LP).
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