Woody GuthrieBest Woody Guthrie Albums Ranked
8.8
Avg Score
7
Opinions
9
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 7 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Woody Guthrie's catalog across 9 albums from 7 opinions, with an overall average of 8.8/10. The top-rated Woody Guthrie album is My Dusty Road (2008) with a 8.9/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection and Dust Bowl Ballads. The discography on Wavelength spans 1940 to 2012. This Land Is Your Land ranks as the highest-rated Woody Guthrie song on Wavelength with a 9.5/10 average.
My Dusty Road
“There are umpteen collections of the music of legendary folkie storyteller, agitator and Dylan role model Woody Guthrie, and almost all of them sound like they were recorded in a refrigerator box. But this one qualifies as genuine news. The back story is a crate-digger’s wet dream: cardboard drums filled with pristine 78-rpm metal masters, […]”
Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
“This sumptuous birthday celebration of America’s greatest folk singer is really a present to us: two CDs of his greatest songs and recordings, mostly from the mid-1940s, and a disc of illuminating rarities, including what is thought to be Guthrie’s first studio session in 1939. Woody at 100 also comes rife with reminders of how much […]”
Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
“Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him back in 1967. To honor the centennial, the Smithsonian organized this 57-track Folkways box set featuring the most notable of his recorded songs winnowed down to two discs and a third filled with unreleased material.”
Dust Bowl Ballads
“Perhaps the lone salvation of human tragedy is that occasionally it finds its poet, the one person who lends enduring meaning to suffering and rescues dignity from disaster. The Dust Bowl crisis of the Thirties found its poet in Woody Guthrie, as the recently re-released Library of Congress Recordings and Dust Bowl Ballads demonstrate with […]”
My Dusty Road
“A treasure for historians and folk fans alike, this 4xCD set collects more than 50 long-lost mid-1940s performances from the American legend.”
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