Album Reviews: Musician (7/93, p.93) - "...In this era of Songs R Us, as Raffi wannabes multiply like cells of a virus, it's heartening to discover that Woody Guthrie was making tunes for tots earlier, funnier and better..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Grassy Grass Grass (Grow Grow Grow)
2.: Swimmy Swim
3.: Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)
4.: Rattle My Rattle
5.: I Want My Milk (I Want It Now)
6.: 12345678
7.: One Day Old
8.: Wash Y Wash Wash (Warshy Little Tootsy)
9.: I'll Eat You I'll Drink You
10.: Make A Blobble
11.: Who's My Pretty Baby (Hey Pretty Baby)
12.: I'll Write And I'll Draw
13.: Why Oh Why
14.: Pick It Up Y'all
15.: Pretty And Shiny O
16.: Needle Sing
17.: Bling Blang
18.: Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')
Advantages: Brilliant and Original Compositions Disadvantages: A Bit Rough around the Edges For Modern Tastes
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Guthrie was born into tragedy and his sister died early on, when the family home burned down (Woody’s daughter later died under similar circumstances). His parents business was to fail shortly after the house fire. No sooner had the young Guthrie picked himself up and started a band than his mother developed Huntingdon’s Chorea and was confined to an asylum in a semi-vegetative state.
Woody married and headed for Texas about the time the Great Depression hit the US. He had already started another band when, in the mid-30s, the depression was compounded by the Great Dust Storms that blew into the mid-west. Millions of acres of prime top-soil were blown away in just a few years, mainly as a result of bad farm management. History records that tens of thousands of bankrupt farmers and cowboys left Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas and parts of Texas...
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Advantages: Familiar, yet more adventurous Disadvantages: Too much Bragg whining
...WHEN Nora Guthrie unearthed a stack of her father’s unrecorded lyrics, she took them to Billy Bragg, who, along with Wilco, recorded one of the finest albums of 1998, Mermaid Avenue.
The lyrics dated from the period after World War II, when WoodyGuthrie had returned from his service onboard a merchant vessel. They chronicle the period when the great folk singer was beginning to feel the effects of the Huntingdon’s disease which would eventually kill him.
Mermaid Avenue revealed an unseen side of Guthrie, it saw him dreaming of sleeping with Hollywood celebrities on California Stars, talking nonsense to get his daughter to sleep on Hoodoo Voodoo and proposing to his wife on Hesitating Beauty.
Wilco are basically the quintessential US rock band, coming across like a hybrid of the good-time sophistication of The Band together...
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Advantages: For folkies everywhere Disadvantages: Not for rockers
...Fortune Street is Bostonian Alistair Moock's fifth album and he presents nine original songs and one cover. The album was recorded in just five days and Moock says that "it was the most fun I've had making an album". The eponymous title track opens this album and highlights Moock's slight gruff quality to his voice. It's a sedate opener, played in the open key of E that is firmly in the Americana fold. Yin Yang Blues is a quirky blues and Woody's Lament is Americana again. These gentle acoustic sounds blend into Moock's understated guitar and Sean Staples' vocal. This is a WoodyGuthrie tribute with some harmony that confirms Moock's citation that "WoodyGuthrie is the reason I'm a songwriter". Swing That Axe is old style folk blended with jazz and is a well executed good time song. God Saw Fit To Make Tears is a lovely title...
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