Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Lost Train Blues
2. Railroad Blues
3. Old Joe Clark/Beaumont Rag
4. Greenback Dollar
5. Boll Weevil Song
6. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
7. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
8. Do-Re-Mi
9. Hard Times
10. Pretty Boy Floyd
11. They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave
12. Jolly Banker
13. I Ain't Got No Home
14. Dirty Overalls
15. Chain Around My Leg
16. Worried Man Blues
17. Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
18. Dust Storm Disaster
19. Foggy Mountain Top
20. Dust Pneumonia Blues
21. California Blues
22. Dust Bowl Refugee
23. Will Rogers Highway
24. Los Angeles New Year's Flood

Disc 2:

1. The Great Dust Storm
2. Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues
3. Pretty Boy Floyd
4. Dusty Old Dust
5. Dust Bowl Blues
6. Blowin' Down this Road
7. Tom Joad Part 1
8. Tom Joad Part 2
9. Do Re Mi
10. Dust Bowl Refugee
11. I Ain't Got No Home
12. Vigilante Man
13. Dust Can't Kill Me
14. Dust Pneumonia Blues
15. Oregon Trail
16. Roll On Columbia
17. New Found Land
18. Talking Columbia
19. Roll Columbia Roll
20. Columbia's Waters
21. Ramblin' Blues
22. It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song
23. Hard Travelin'
24. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
25. Grand Coulee Dam

Disc 3:

1. Song Of The Coulee Dam
2. Jackhammer Blues
3. Washington Talkin' Blues
4. Ramblin' Round
5. Pastures Of Plenty
6. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
7. End Of The Line
8. I Ride An Old Paint
9. House Of The Rising Sun
10. Hard Ain't It Hard
11. The Dodger Song
12. Ida Red
13. Muleskinner Blues
14. What Are We Waiting On
15. Ship In the Sky
16. The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
17. Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
18. New York Town
19. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
20. Chisolm Trail
21. Sowing On The Mountain
22. Sally Don't You Grieve
23. Philadelphia Lawyer
24. Little Darling (At My Window Sad And Lonely)
25. Baltimore To Washington

Disc 4:

1. Bed On The Floor
2. Dead Or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
3. Billy The Kid
4. Stackolee
5. Take A Whiff On Me
6. Buffalo Gals
7. Ride Around Little Doggies (I Ride An Old Paint)
8. Talking Fish Blues
9. Jesse James
10. Sinking Of The Reuben James
11. When The Great Ship Went Down
12. Stepstone
13. Hobo's Lullaby
14. Slipknot (Hangknot Slipknot)
15. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
16. When the Yanks Go Marching In
17. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
18. Little Black Train
19. Gypsy Davy
20. Cowboy Waltz
21. 1913 Massacre
22. Ludlow Massacre
23. Ramblin' Round
24. When the Curfew Blows
25. New Found Land

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50560 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Album Description
Four CD Proper box set featuring 99 of the Folk legends' most beloved tracks. Woody Guthrie is enshrined in American folklore, not only because of his significant body of work but through his considerable influence on successive generations. This is the most comprehensive overview of the most important part of his career to be found in one set. Comes with 48 page booklet and is destined to become one of the biggest selling Proper boxes. 2006.

Customer Reviews

Rivals the Asch Recordings box set
This box set contains everything on the Library of Congress box set except four songs, the entire "Dust Bowl Ballads" recording, the entire "Columbia River Collection," most of the Almanac Singers' "Sod Buster Ballads" album, and 38 of the 105 songs on the Asch Recordings box set.

Considering that the Library of Congress box set sells for $36 alone, I'd say this collection is a steal. It contains almost as much music as the Asch Recordings set - 99 songs as opposed to 105 - and it spans a larger portion of Woody's career. It's true that it doesn't contain any material from his children's recordings, but you won't find many of those songs on the Asch set either.

The packaging is mediocre, as you'd expect from Proper. The booklet contains a lengthy biography of Woody but it's written so badly it's exhausting to read. Still, you can't beat this collection for the money.

Odd Twist
I found it odd that a 4-disc collection of Woody Guthrie wouldn't have This Land Is Your Land. But even though it's not listed on Amazon, it's on there -- as the 26th song on Disc 4.

deserves a 10 on a scale of 1-5...
grab this 4 disc properbox & the muddy waters 4 disc properbox 'king of chicago blues', load them into your cd player, grab an adult beverage & sit back & hit play...it don't get better.