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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Intro/Narration: Riding the Rails | |||
| 2. This Train Is Bound for Glory | |||
| 3. Narration: Indian Free Lands | |||
| 4. Down in Oklahoma Hills | |||
| 5. Narration: Okemah | |||
| 6. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key | |||
| 7. Narration: Outlawing | |||
| 8. Pretty Boy Floyd | |||
| 9. Narration: Dust Bowl | |||
| 10. Pastures of Plenty | |||
See all 22 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Lonesome Valley | |||
| 2. Narration: My Voice | |||
| 3. Deportee | |||
| 4. Narration: In the Red | |||
| 5. Ramblin' Reckless Hobo | |||
| 6. Narration: Painting | |||
| 7. Hangknot | |||
| 8. Narration: Religion | |||
| 9. This Morning I Was Born Again | |||
| 10. Narration: Kids First | |||
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See all 18 tracks on this disc
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Editorial Reviews
Ribbon of Highway Endless Skyway: Tribute to Woody Guthrie
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've had this CD a while, and I have listened to it a couple times. Those times had been when there were other distractions going on, so I was not really paying that much attention to it. I was definitely not paying attention to Bob Childers narration.
I recently took a road trip and listened to both CDs all the way through with out interruption. Most of the music I knew and was familiar to me. Woody's prose that was narrated was new to me. I came away with a new and deeper appreciation of the music of Woody Guthrie and of Woody Guthrie as a man.
It did get me to wondering how Woody would be received in the Oklahoma of today. Would he have the same iconic stature that enjoys today? Oklahoma is a very conservative, very fundamentalist Christian state. Woody was without question a populist and socialist. Even he wondered if he was a communist. My reading of the prose narrated on this CD was that Woody was not particularly any religion, and probably had issues with organized religions. He came across as a spiritual man though.
Woody was a keen observer of the human condition, and more than able to put that into words and music. Just the word pictures painted by the prose would make this CD worth the price.
The CD can also be looked at as peek into the history and the society of the dust bowl era. It is a study on how folks and society reacted to the massive environment and economic disasters of the time.
Additionally, one of my all time favorite musicians, Jimmy Lafave, is featured on several of the songs on the CD. Pete Seeger makes a couple appearances. One unannounced appearance was to correct the lyrics of the performers, and a second time singing some of Woody's children songs.
Ellis Paul, Eliza Gilkyson, Slaid Cleaves, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Jeremy Irion, Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso and Joel Rafael all make appearances. Most of the folk singers are well know on the national level. A couple of the singers are more famous around the Texas, Oklahoma circuit. They all do wonderful interruptions of Woody's music. There are one or two songs out the archives that have not been put to music before. On more than one I found myself singing along. And to those folks that know me, "Yes I know you are glad that you were not in truck with me."
I think it is a CD that every American should own, and sure enough every Okie.
Buy it for the music, buy it for the prose or buy it for the history. You will not go wrong.
I recently took a road trip and listened to both CDs all the way through with out interruption. Most of the music I knew and was familiar to me. Woody's prose that was narrated was new to me. I came away with a new and deeper appreciation of the music of Woody Guthrie and of Woody Guthrie as a man.
It did get me to wondering how Woody would be received in the Oklahoma of today. Would he have the same iconic stature that enjoys today? Oklahoma is a very conservative, very fundamentalist Christian state. Woody was without question a populist and socialist. Even he wondered if he was a communist. My reading of the prose narrated on this CD was that Woody was not particularly any religion, and probably had issues with organized religions. He came across as a spiritual man though.
Woody was a keen observer of the human condition, and more than able to put that into words and music. Just the word pictures painted by the prose would make this CD worth the price.
The CD can also be looked at as peek into the history and the society of the dust bowl era. It is a study on how folks and society reacted to the massive environment and economic disasters of the time.
Additionally, one of my all time favorite musicians, Jimmy Lafave, is featured on several of the songs on the CD. Pete Seeger makes a couple appearances. One unannounced appearance was to correct the lyrics of the performers, and a second time singing some of Woody's children songs.
Ellis Paul, Eliza Gilkyson, Slaid Cleaves, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Jeremy Irion, Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso and Joel Rafael all make appearances. Most of the folk singers are well know on the national level. A couple of the singers are more famous around the Texas, Oklahoma circuit. They all do wonderful interruptions of Woody's music. There are one or two songs out the archives that have not been put to music before. On more than one I found myself singing along. And to those folks that know me, "Yes I know you are glad that you were not in truck with me."
I think it is a CD that every American should own, and sure enough every Okie.
Buy it for the music, buy it for the prose or buy it for the history. You will not go wrong.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great live concert of some of the best and best known folk singers. The wonderful narration gives history and flavor to songs I've heard all my life. I've really enjoyed playing this for my kids in this revival of democratic issues during the 2008 election year.
Not to mention, it's really just plain fun music palyed and sung by terrific musicians and folks with a cause who all loved Woody Guthrie.
Not to mention, it's really just plain fun music palyed and sung by terrific musicians and folks with a cause who all loved Woody Guthrie.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
From a man with a keen sense of observation and common sense, who speaks to a soul from a soul who simply does not stop the narrative what a wonderful AMEN! Each artist picking up that live wire flowing from Woody's influence and inspiration throws the lifeline he cast so long ago into the very present. And thank God they did.
This work is vital and reflective today as it was when Woody was walking that Ribbon of Highway. The producers do an excellent and artful job of stringing together these pearls of wisdom. Each artist connects with Woody's music and the narrations in between are like diamonds amongst those pearls of wisdom, pearls of pain and hardship, sometimes brutal, hard won but lived with courage, honesty and love.
And at the end of that road, with Narration Love, it all comes together in praise from a humble man who simply and profoundly, spoke his mind and shared his heart. This one's a keeper but one to give away.
This work is vital and reflective today as it was when Woody was walking that Ribbon of Highway. The producers do an excellent and artful job of stringing together these pearls of wisdom. Each artist connects with Woody's music and the narrations in between are like diamonds amongst those pearls of wisdom, pearls of pain and hardship, sometimes brutal, hard won but lived with courage, honesty and love.
And at the end of that road, with Narration Love, it all comes together in praise from a humble man who simply and profoundly, spoke his mind and shared his heart. This one's a keeper but one to give away.
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