Genre: Folk
Places I remember: The Warehouse
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
Gear costume: Do Re Mi
Active compensatory factors: I love thematic albums like this. It's considered one of the first concept records because all of the songs deal with the so-called Dust Bowl situation of the 1930s, as Steinbeck wrote about so eloquently in Grapes Of Wrath.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
Gear costume: Do Re Mi
Active compensatory factors: I love thematic albums like this. It's considered one of the first concept records because all of the songs deal with the so-called Dust Bowl situation of the 1930s, as Steinbeck wrote about so eloquently in Grapes Of Wrath.
Tom Joad Part 1 and 2 (it was too long to appear on the original 78rpm version so it was split in half) is a featured song and some other Woody Guthrie classics are on display as well: Do Re Mi (Ry Cooder's live version on Showtime is brilliant); Vigilante Man; Pretty Boy Floyd; plus the great Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Chuck Berry was paying attention).
All that plus the brilliant line (in Pretty Boy Floyd):
Yes, as through this world I've wanderedI've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen
This was Woody's most successful album of his career.
Where do they all belong? A must have addition to anyone's collection. Woody is just brilliant on this fully realised album. Helps that I adore Steinbeck's writing as well.
Where do they all belong? A must have addition to anyone's collection. Woody is just brilliant on this fully realised album. Helps that I adore Steinbeck's writing as well.
That's it for the G section. On to the H's.
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