Thinking of Woody Guthrie

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Thinking of Woodie Guthrie
Country Joe McDonald's studio album

Publication
(s)

1969

Label (s) Vanguard Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Country rock , folk music

Title (number)

10

running time

32:24

production

Samuel Charters

Studio (s)

Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee

chronology
- Thinking of Woodie Guthrie Tonight I'm Singing Just for You

Thinking of Woody Guthrie is Country Joe McDonald's first solo album , released in 1969. The album received four and a half stars out of five at Allmusic .

On his first solo album without his band Country Joe and the Fish , he interprets the songs of Woody Guthrie . He is accompanied by musicians from the Nashville scene such as Grady Martin and Harold Bradley .

Even today, McDonald is a fan of Woody Guthrie. According to McDonald, “Woody Guthrie embodies the American dream of working people. He's had a hard life, but he kept his positive attitude and did not run away from the truth, and at the same time managed to be entertaining. ”In 2012 he will be celebrating the folk musician's centenary at his concerts.

Track list

  1. Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) - 2:13
  2. Talkin 'Dust Bowl (Woody Guthrie) - 2:22
  3. Blowing Down That Dusty Road (Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays) - 2:34
  4. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) (Woody Guthrie) - 3:01
  5. Tom Joad (Woody Guthrie) - 7:08
  6. The Sinking of the Reuben James (The Almanac Singers) - 2:42
  7. Roll On, Columbia (Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, John A. Lomax) - 3:25
  8. Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - 3:22
  9. When the Curfew Blows (Woody Guthrie) - 2:16
  10. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) - 3:21

Creation of the album

According to McDonald, the production of this album happened purely by chance: in 1969 he recorded his planned first solo album Tonight I'm Singing Just for You , a country and western album, in Nashville . The musicians were so good that the recordings did not take three days as planned, but were finished in a day and a half. However, the three days had already been paid for in advance. It was then decided to produce a Woody Guthrie album. The album was released three months before the planned debut album.

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  1. ↑ a b McDonald's Interview with Mike Ragogna, KRUU-FM, posted July 13, 2012 , accessed November 3, 2012

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