Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly

RELEASE
1988
LABEL
CBS Records
GENRES
Folk, Progressive Country, Traditional Folk, Country-Pop, Contemporary Country, Political Folk, Rock & Roll, Outlaw Country, Black Gospel, Roots Rock, Alt-Country, Album Rock, Country-Rock, Psychedelic, Traditional Country, Gospel, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Folk, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan, Singer/Songwriter, Heartland Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Contemporary Blues, Alternative/Indie Rock

Album Review

This is a solid collection of alternately exuberant and faithful covers of the songs of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. Great cuts are Little Richard's fuel-injected "Rock Island Line," and Springsteen's "Vigilante Man." Bob Dylan does "Pretty Boy Floyd."
– Richard Meyer, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Sylvie
  2. Pretty Boy Floyd
  3. Do-Re-Mi
  4. I Ain't Got No Home
  5. Jesus Christ
  6. Rock Island Line
  7. East Texas Red
  8. Philadelphia Lawyer
  9. Hobo's Lullaby
  10. The Bourgeois Blues
  11. Gray Goose
  12. Goodnight Irene
  13. Vigilante Man
  14. This Land Is Your Land

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