n addition to being a musical legend and a cultural icon, Woody Guthrie is also a wonderful historian: his songs of traveling through Great Depression-era America offer a remarkably clear window into a nation at its most desperate, yet resolute. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: THE ORIGINAL DUST BOWL BALLADS AND OTHER FOLK SONGS focuses primarily on Guthrie's songs about the dust bowl. At least 20 of the 2-disc set's 36 tracks chronicle the hardships of the experience, and these include "Talking Dust Bowl Blues", "Dust Can't Kill Me", "Dust Bowl Refugee", and the famous "Tom Joad". Guthrie's voice and guitar ring clear across the decades on these fine recordings, which also include such timeless populist anthems as "John Henry" and "This Land Is Your Land". Guthrie fanatics will want to pick this up, but the set is also a great starting point for initiates as well.|
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