Dust Bowl Ballads

Item

Identifier:
IA.ITM.1990
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Description
Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. It was released by Victor Records, in 1940. All the songs on the album deal with the Dust Bowl and its effects on the country and its people. It is considered to be the first or one of the very first concept albums. It was Guthrie's first commercial recording and the most successful album of his career.

Tracklisting: 
Side 1: 
"Talking Dust Blues" - 2:45
"Blowing Down This Road" - 3:06
"Do Re Mi" - 2:40
"Dust Cain't Kill Me" - 2:58
"Tom Joad-Part 1" - 3:24
"Tom Joad-Part 2" - 3:30

Side 2: 
"The Great Dust Storm" - 3:24
"Dusty Old Dust" - 3:09
"Dust Bowl Refugee" - 3:14
"Dust Pneumonia Blues" - 2:46
"I Ain't Go No Home In This World Anymore" - 2:50 
"Vigilante Man" - 2:50 
 

Related person
Woody Guthrie (creator)
Related place
New York (created)
Format
vinyl records (format)