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On the promise of a part narrating a documentary about the construction of public works dams and other projects in the US Pacific Northwest, Woody Guthrie traveled to Oregon in 1941. The documentary never came to fruition but 17 of the 26 songs Guthrie wrote during this period were compiled and released as the Columbia River Ballads and more recently as the Columbia River Collection. The collection includes some of Guthrie's most famous songs like Roll on Columbia, Grand Coulee Dam, and The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done.[1]
"I pulled my shoes on and walked out of every one of these Pacific Northwest Mountain towns drawing pictures in my mind and listening to poems and songs and words faster to come and dance in my ears than I could ever get them wrote down."[2]
Guthrie's introduction in the Columbia River Songbook |
[edit] Track Listing
- Oregon Trail
- Roll On Columbia
- New Found Land
- Talking Columbia
- Roll Columbia, roll
- Columbia’s Waters
- Ramblin’ Blues
- It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song
- Hard Travelin’
- The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
- Jackhammer Blues
- Song of the Coulee Dam
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Washington Talkin’ Blues
- Ramblin’ Round
- Pastures of Plenty
- End of My Line
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
Track Listing of the Album from Woodyguthrie.org Woody Guthrie.org Retrieved on April 24, 2008
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