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Woody Guthrie
Songs from Bound to Glory
Release Date: 1977
Label: Warner Bros.
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In 1976, a film adaptation of Woody Guthrie's autobiography Bound for Glory was released, with David Carradine portraying Guthrie. On the soundtrack, Carradine sang Guthrie's songs. The renewed exposure given to the veteran folksinger led to this album on Warner Bros. Records, its cover pointedly proclaiming, "1940-1946 original recordings made by Woody Guthrie." Here were found Guthrie's own versions of songs featured in the movie, including "Hard Travelin'," "So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) (Dusty Old Dust)," "Pastures of Plenty," "Howdido," and, of course, "This Land Is Your Land." That accounted for half of the ten-track, 27-minute LP, with the rest selecting some of the better known Guthrie songs from the vast cache of his recordings made for Moses Asch in the 1940s, such as "Jesus Christ," "Pretty Boy Floyd," and "Better World." Asch's liner notes filled the back of the album cover, explaining his unusual relationship with Guthrie, in which he let the singer come into his studio, such as it was, on nights and weekends to cut whatever he wanted. The results were decidedly casual, of course, and these tracks reflect that, with varying sound quality, rehearsal-like performances, and abrupt endings. Throughout, however, Guthrie's talent as a songwriter and performer comes through. (The Asch sessions began in 1944; the version of "So Long [It's Been Good to Know Yuh is taken from Guthrie's Library of Congress recordings of 1940.) William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Gypsy Davy	Guthrie
2	Jesus Christ	Guthrie
3	Pastures of Plenty	Guthrie
4	Columbus Stockade	Davis, Guthrie
5	So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)	Guthrie
6	Howdjadoo	Guthrie
7	Pretty Boy Floyd	Guthrie
8	Hard Travelin'	Guthrie
9	Better World
10	This Land Is Your Land	Guthrie