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This Machine Kills Fascists album for sale Product Description
This Machine Kills Fascists album for sale by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston was released Nov 15, 2005 on the Recall label. British label Snapper Music's three-CD Woody Guthrie box set This Machine Kills Fascists is an audio accompaniment to a home video of the same name that presents a nearly three-hour documentary film biography of the legendary folksinger. This Machine Kills Fascists buy CD music The cover pictures of the CD and DVD are the same, but the contents are not. This Machine Kills Fascists songs The box set has some pretensions to scholarship, at least in its booklet, which contains an essay by Guthrie biographer Ed Cray (who is also an interview subject in the film) and a list of the 66 tracks that indicates musicians and recording dates where available. This Machine Kills Fascists album for sale The music itself, however, is a randomly sequenced miscellany of Guthrie recordings taking advantage of the 50-year limit on copyright for recordings in Europe to draw upon Guthrie's 1940 RCA Victor Records collections of Dust Bowl ballads and the large cache of tracks he made for Moses Asch in the mid-'40s that were released on Folkways Records in various configurations over the years. Some of Guthrie's greatest compositions ("This Land Is Your Land," "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" in both original and revised World War II versions, "Pastures of Plenty," "Do-Re-Mi") are interspersed with off-the-cuff performances of old folk and country songs. ...See Full Description
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This Machine Kills Fascists songs Product Details
| CD Universe Part number | 6869869 |
| Label | Recall |
| Orig Year | 2005 |
| Catalog number | 9 |
| Discs | 1 |
| Release Date | Nov 15, 2005 |
| Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
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