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Woody Guthrie Songbook (Richmond Music ¯ Folios)

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This is a decent songbook with some great Guthrie titles. It has a handsome cover and includes a biography and some other extras, at a very reasonalbe price. However, BUYER BE WARNED - "The Dying Miner" is listed as one of the titles in this book - It is also listed in the table of contents of the book itself, with a page number that it is supposed to be on. IT DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE BOOK AT ALL!!! I couldn't believe it... not only did the writers/producer miss such a huge mistake, but obviously so did Hal Leonard, the distributor. Some of the other titles in the table of contents have incorrect page numbers as well. Rarely do you see such a big mistake in a Hal Leonard distributed book. What really irked me was I purchased this book mainly based on the fact that Dying Miner was one of the songs that was supposed to be in it; so I was quite upset when I received it - you can imagine my frustration when I went through the whole book over and over again in disbelief and disappointment.
[...]So, with the exception of that pretty huge error, the book is great. As long as the absence of Dying Miner doesn't bother you (and you can go to the above link to get it), I reccommend this title.

Nice song book with all the Woody Guthrie songs that I am interested in. My copy did have "Dying Miner" on page 24, so I don't know what happened with the copy received by an earlier reviewer. Each song includes not only the words and chords, but also a lead sheet of the melody. Very useful to us folkies!

Guthrie wrote songs of people and for people, which I want from the present-day songs.