Woody Guthrie Meets Pete Seeger

RELEASE
September 29, 2009
LABEL
Collectables
GENRES
Folk, Traditional Folk, Political Folk

Album Review

This super-budget collection features five well-known tracks by Woody Guthrie and five by his friend and co-conspirator Pete Seeger. While each man is well represented, their signature tunes are not present. In Woody’s case, “This Land Is Your Land” is missing, and in Pete’s, “If I Had a Hammer” is absent. That said, this is a truly enjoyable -- if brief -- collection of American folk music from the the '30s and '40s at its best. “Gypsy Davy” is here, as is “Pretty Boy Floyd" by Guthrie, and “House Carpenter” and “Ariran” are here by Seeger, along with three more apiece. For the money, this little collection satisfies.
Thom Jurek, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Gypsy Davy
  2. More Pretty Girls Than One
  3. Pretty Boy Floyd
  4. Poor Boy
  5. Hey Lolly Lolly
  6. House Carpenter
  7. Greenland Fisheries
  8. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
  9. Three Courting Songs
  10. Ariran