Various - Folkways A Vision Shared-A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly (1988) @320)

I'm in a storng Woody Guthrie mood lately; I find a constant inspiration in his spirit and lyrics, now that his topical songs seem to have been written about the problems of today; isn't there a better proof about his timeless value? So, as an addition to the Bragg-Wilco upload based on his lyrics, I thought that it would be a good idea to upload this "proper" tribute to him as well. Furthermore it is also a brilliant tribute to Leadbelly, as well as a good reason to remember Don DeVito who passed away recently and was the producer of this album which had won him the Grammy for the Best Traditional Folk Recording in 1989. DeVito is mostly known as the producer of Bob Dylan's Desire and Blood on the Tracks lps. As a result Dylan could not be absent from this tribute to one of his idols contributing with, to my opinion, the best song of this compilation. Finally, Dylan and Emmylou Harris are the links with the Hank Williams tribute of the previous post.

Tracklisting:
A1-Sylvie - Sweet Honey In The Rock
A2-Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd
A3-John Mellencamp - Do Re Mi
A4-Bruce Springsteen - I Ain't Got No Home
A5-U2 - Jesus Christ
A6-Little Richard With Fishbone - Rock Island Line
A7-Arlo Guthrie - East Texas Red
B1-Willie Nelson - Philadelphia Lawyer
B2-Emmylou Harris - Hobo's Lullaby
B3-Taj Mahal - The Bourgeois Blues
B4-Sweet Honey In The Rock - Gray Goose
B5-Brian Wilson - Goodnight Irene
B6-Bruce Springsteen - Vigilante Man
B7-Pete Seeger with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc Watson & The Little Red School House Chorus - This Land Is Your Land

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Various - Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute (2001) (@320)

The "New Multitudes" lp for which the Mermaid Avenue lp was uploaded in the previous music post has a similar concept to "The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams" lp (which was released on October, last year) i.e. both albums are tributes based on lyrics (written by Guthrie and Williams respectively) to songs that were never recorded, while the participating artists contribute to the composition of each song. Hence, it was a good opportunity to remember and older (and magnificent) Hank Williams tribute album. Bob Dylan is another connecting link between the two Hank Williams tributes since he participates in both of them. Enjoy.

Tracklisting:
01-Bob Dylan - I Can't Get You Off My Mind
02-Sheryl Crow - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
03-Keb' Mo' - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
04-Beck - Your Cheatin' Heart
05-Mark Knopfler & His Band with Emmylou Harris - Lost On The River
06-Tom Petty - You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
07-Keith Richards - You Win Again
08-Emmylou Harris with Mark Knopfler & His Band - Alone And Forsaken
09-Hank Williams III - I'm A Long Gone Daddy
10-Ryan Adams - Lovesick Blues
11-Lucinda Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
12-Johnny Cash - I Dreamed About Mama Last Night

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Anonymous hacked Greek Ministry of Justice website...

...in protest over ACTA as well as for the economic and political slavery of Greece (Feb. 3, 2012).

The message in full:
"Greetings Greece. We are Anonymous.
What is going on in your country is unacceptable. You were chosen by your people to act
on behalf of them and express their wishes, but you have derogatorily failed. You have killed
the most sacred element your country had and that is democracy. Democracy was
given birth in your country but you have now killed it. What an irony! Your own
people hate you and you stare at them doing nothing to prevent that. You
have joined the IMF against your people's acquiescence. You have so introduced a
new dictatorship upon your people's shoulders and allowed the bankers and the
monarchs of the EU to enslave them both economically and politically.
They pay their government's mistakes heavily and you made foreign people
hate them for something they are not responsible for. What a shame! Police is
taking advantage of its powers and attacks people who demonstrate in order for
justice to be done. They demonstrate against you but you do not want
their voices to be heard. You deprive them from their right of freedom of
expression and of their right to live. Your arbitrary actions must be punished.
By signing the ACTA bill you are going to deprive your people from
further freedom and you are pushing them one step towards oppression. You
ignored our warnings and now we are in charge.
WE ARE ANONYMOUS
WE ARE LEGION
WE DO NOT FORGIVE
WE DO NOT FORGET
YOY SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED US
People should not be afraid of their governments. It's
governments that should be afraid of their people.

SOPA and PIPA are dead. Let's kill ACTA as well

The European Parliament will vote within June 2012 to either accept or reject ACTA. We all have to ACT against ACTA.



Sign the petition against ACTA

Stop ACTA info

How to act against ACTA

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Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (1998) (@320)

In 2012 is the centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth. Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk) and Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron) were invited by Guthrie's daughter, Nora, who runs the Guthrie Archives, to pick through Guthrie’s notebooks of lyrics (most of these lyrics were written during Guthrie's time in Los Angeles) in order to add tunes to them. "These guys worked on an amazing group of lyrics. Much of it was culled from Woody’s times in L.A. Lyric wise, it’s a part of the story that is still mostly unknown. From Woody’s experiences on LA’s skid row to his later years in Topanga Canyon, they are uniquely intimate, and relate two distinctly emotional periods in his life”, says Nora Guthrie. The result of this collaboration is the album "New Multitudes" which will be released via Rounder Records, on February, 28, while a respective tour will follow. Additional events and concerts including a Guthrie tribute in his hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma will also take place.

The concept of New Multitudes reminded me of two similar releases by Billy Bragg and Wilco; the first one of those is uploaded here. Mermaid Avenue (the album's title) in Coney Island, is where Woody Guthrie lived with his family in the late 1940's and early 50's were he wrote hundreds of songs which he never recorded. When he died he left only the lyrics; for some of those Billy Bragg and Wilco have written new tunes. As Bill Bragg writes in the album's liner notes "Despite the fact that his (Guthrie's) recording career was more or less over by 1947, he carried on writing songs until he became too ill to hold a pencil. The last years of his life were spent in the Brooklyn state hospital and when he died in 1967, the tunes that he had dreamt up for these hundreds of unrecorded songs, tunes he had carried in his head all his life, were lost forever. Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie offered me access to over a thousand complete lyrics of her father's that are in her care. Handwritten or typed, often bearing the date and place where they were written and sometimes accompanied by an insight into the process at work, they offer us a broader picture of a man who over the past sixty years has been vilified by the American right whilst simultaneously being canonized by the American left. In her letter to me, Nora talked of breaking the mould, of working with her father to give his words a new sound and a new context. The result is not a tribute album but a collaboration between Woody Guthrie and a new generation of songwriters who until now had only glimpsed him fleetingly over the shoulder of Bob Dylan or somewhere in the distance of a Bruce Springsteen song."

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PS The frequent visitors of this blog please read the update of the previous post.