Woody Guthrie on channel 4 news

Subject: Woody Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 01:18 PM

any minute.... even if they refer to hiom as C&W

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: GUEST,erbert
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 01:26 PM

bloody hell !!!


first BBC say they gonna be employing old lady news-readers;

trust channel 4 to try to out do them with old dead protest singers !??

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Oct 09 - 10:32 PM

Here 'tis:-

Guthrie masters found and released (UK Channel 4 News, 10th October 2009)

Ross

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: ced2
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 11:03 AM

Do I undestand that there was an original recording by Woodie that included all six verses of This Land?

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 01:27 PM

There still is ced2, I don't know where to get it but the verse ' There was a great big wall there ' was used in the recent BBC 4 series
Folk America, sung by Woody.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: ced2
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 02:58 PM

Sorry Dave I do not quite understand what you are saying. I only tuned into Channel 4 as the news that the archive of Woodies recordings had been unearthed. The question that I was not clear about was whether there was in that collection, a full 6 verse recording, by Woodie himself, of This Land is Your Land. The bit I heard seemed to suggest that there was, but as I say I tuned in part way through! Or are you saying that there exists another recording, bu Woodie of the full 6 verse version. Ced

Subject: RE: Woodie Guthrie on channel 4 news
From: NormanD
Date: 11 Oct 09 - 04:12 PM

The new suitcase set does contain the 'long' version of This Land. I read a recent newspaper review that confirms this.

There is also an earlier-released 'long' version, on the Smithsonian-Folkways set. It's very low-fi and scratchy.

It's great that the Private Property version is getting a wide release, in a good quality version. Didn't Pete Seeger and Springsteen sing this verse at Obama's Inauguration?

The best modern version - with the Private Property verse sung early on - is by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. It's old school soul, and gives the old song a new voice.