This Land Is Your Land - Songs Of Freedom

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B00005V62S
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rally 'Round the Flag

2. This Land Is Your Land

3. If I Had a Hammer

4. Kumbaya

5. He's Got the Whole World in His Hand

6. There But for Fortune

7. The Circle Game

8. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)

9. All My Sorrows

10. People Get Ready [#]

11. Battle Hymn of the Republic

12. Get Together

13. The Universal Soldier

14. Blowin' in the Wind

15. With God on Our Side

16. The Times They Are A-Changin' [#]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Woody Guthrie composed "This Land Is Your Land" in 1940 as an answer to Kate Smith's version of "God Bless America," which he had heard countless times on car radios and on café jukeboxes during a cross-country hitchhiking trip. Now that numerous versions of "God Bless America" have been released since September 11, it's fitting that Guthrie's song should be resurrected as well. This Land Is Your Land: Songs of Freedom is a collection of folk songs drawn from the vaults of Vanguard Records, and includes Cisco Houston's version of "This Land Is Your Land," along with selections by performers like the Weavers, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, and Odetta. Two of the tracks--Joan Baez's live version of "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and the Chambers Brothers' somber take on Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready"--are released here for the first time. Most of the songs were composed during the urban folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and even though tracks like "Get Together" and "The Universal Soldier" seem embarrassingly naive today, on balance the selections exhibit a blend of compassion and complexity. --Michael Simmons

Product Description

Throughout America's history, these songs have unified and strengthened us in times of personal loss or struggle. Drawn from Vanguard's folk catalog, they will lift your spirits and inspire you to sing along. Lyrics are included. Includes The Times They Are A-Changin' Joan Baez; Blowing In The Wind Judy Collins; The Circle Game Ian & Sylvia; All My Sorrows Kingston Trio, and more.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag but mostly excellent!, January 3, 2009

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This cd is for everyone who loved the folk music of the 60s and 70s. Though I'm not a fan of a few of the cuts (the first few by the Weavers and Cisco Houston are the weakest on the cd - every one after that gets better and better), others are just as moving now as they were years ago - Joan Baez "There But for Fortune" and "The Times They are a Changin'" Ian and Sylvia "The Circle Game", Judy Collins "Turn, Turn, Turn" "Blowin' in the Wind" and especially "Get Together". Sound quality is excellent. But what's missing is Peter, Paul and Mary -- they have a few great freedom songs that are much more freedom-oriented than songs on this cd than the Kingston Trio's All My Sorrows or the two religious songs included.