Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records… Read Full Bio ↴Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940. It was Guthrie's first commercial recording and the most successful album he made. It is sometimes considered the first concept album.
The Dust Bowl Ballads was originally released as two three-disc collections of 78 rpm records. Twelve sides, including the double-sided "Tom Joad", were included in this release, but two of the thirteen songs, "Pretty Boy Floyd and "Dust Bowl Blues" were left out due to length. In 1964, during the American folk music revival of the 1950's and 1960's, a reissue including all tracks from the sessions was released in LP format. The complete Dust Bowl Ballads remains available on compact disc. All tracks were recorded at RCA Victor studios in Camden, New Jersey on April 26, 1940, except "Dust Cain't Kill Me" and "Dust Pneumonia Blues" which were recorded on May 3.
The songs on "Dust Bowl Ballads" are semi-autobiographical, chronicling Guthrie's experience as a so-called "Okie" during the Dust Bowl era, where Guthrie witnessed the economic hardship that many migrant workers faced in California. Like many of Guthrie's later recordings, these songs contain an element of social activism, and would be an important influence on later musicians, including Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
The Dust Bowl Ballads was originally released as two three-disc collections of 78 rpm records. Twelve sides, including the double-sided "Tom Joad", were included in this release, but two of the thirteen songs, "Pretty Boy Floyd and "Dust Bowl Blues" were left out due to length. In 1964, during the American folk music revival of the 1950's and 1960's, a reissue including all tracks from the sessions was released in LP format. The complete Dust Bowl Ballads remains available on compact disc. All tracks were recorded at RCA Victor studios in Camden, New Jersey on April 26, 1940, except "Dust Cain't Kill Me" and "Dust Pneumonia Blues" which were recorded on May 3.
The songs on "Dust Bowl Ballads" are semi-autobiographical, chronicling Guthrie's experience as a so-called "Okie" during the Dust Bowl era, where Guthrie witnessed the economic hardship that many migrant workers faced in California. Like many of Guthrie's later recordings, these songs contain an element of social activism, and would be an important influence on later musicians, including Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
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Dust Bowl Ballads
Woody Guthrie Lyrics
Blowin' Down The Road I'm going down this road feeling bad I'm going down this…
Do Re Mi Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home…
Dust Bowl Blues I just blowed in, and I got them dust bowl…
Dust Bowl Refugee I'm a dust bowl refugee, Just a dust bowl refugee, From that…
Dust Cain't Kill Me That old dust storm killed my baby, But it can't kill…
Dust Pneumonia Blues I got that dust pneumony, pneumony in my lung, I got…
Dusty Old Dust I've sung this song, but I'll sing it again Of the…
I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore I ain't got no home, I'm just a-roamin' 'round Just a…
Pretty Boy Floyd If you'll gather 'round me, children A story I will tell Pre…
Talking Dust Bowl Blues Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven, I had a little farm and I…
The Great Dust Storm On the 14th day of April of 1935, There struck the…
Tom Joad, Part 2 Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen; There he…
Vigilante Man Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilan…