Artist	Song
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Woody Guthrie	Pretty Boy Floyd
from The Library of Congress Recordings: Woody Guthrie (1988)
Woody Guthrie	Do-Re-Mi
from The Library of Congress Recordings: Woody Guthrie (1988)
Woody Guthrie	Rambling Round
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Woody Guthrie	Pastures of Plenty
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Woody Guthrie	Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know You)
from Storytellers - Woody Guthrie (Chapter two) (2007)
Woody Guthrie	Hard Traveling
from Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3 (1998)
Woody Guthrie	Blowin' Down This Road
from Storytellers - Woody Guthrie (Chapter two) (2007)
Woody Guthrie	I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Woody Guthrie	Philadelphia Lawyer
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Woody Guthrie	They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave
from The Library of Congress Recordings: Woody Guthrie (1988)
Woody Guthrie	Vigilante Man
from Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3 (1998)
Woody Guthrie	Roll On Columbia
from Columbia River Collection (1990)
Woody Guthrie	Hard, Ain't It Hard
from The Very Best of Woody Guthrie (2006)
Woody Guthrie	The Sinking of the Reuben James
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)

Comment:

With the feistiness of a bantamweight merchant mariner (which he was), Woody Guthrie personified a breed of patriot now virtually extinct. A radical socialist who’d seen as many people robbed by banks as by guns during the Depression, he celebrated America’s beauty and doggedly exposed its flaws. Ironically, Guthrie’s best-known tune is almost never heard all the way through. “This Land Is Your Land” was composed as a sort of warts-and-all antidote to Irving Berlin’s sentimental “God Bless America.” It helped earn Guthrie a two-inch-thick F.B.I. dossier (check out verses five and six), but it still rings true more than half-a-century later.

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