Reintroduce yourself to the Smithsonian Folkways essentials. More than 15 years ago, FOLKWAYS: THE ORIGINAL VISION was one of the first album released by a then fledgling Smithsonian Folkways label. It was conceived and sequenced to complement FOLKWAYS: A VISION SHARED, a benefit/tribute album consisting of 14 reinterpretations of Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly songs by a cross-section of some of popular music's top stars at the time. Now, with the re-release of this historic album on it's 15th anniversary, Smithsonian Folkways expands upon the original concept with the addition of 6 bonus tracks, and enhances it with stunning new packaging and newly extended notes.
1) Bring Me a Little Water Sylvie - Lead Belly
2) Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie
3) Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
4) I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
5) Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie
6) Cotton Fields - Lead Belly
7) Rock Island Line - Lead Belly
8) Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie
9) 45 and 9 - Lead Belly
10) Will Geer Reading Woody Guthrie - Will Geer
11) Hard Traveling - Woody Guthrie
12) Fannin Street - Lead Belly
13) Philadelphia Lawyer - Woody Guthrie
14) Hobo's Lullaby - Woody Guthrie
15) Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly
16) Gray Goose - Lead Belly
17) Irene - Lead Belly
18) Vigilante Man - Woody Guthrie
19) Gallis Pole - Lead Belly
20) This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
21) Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie
22) Midnight Special - Lead Belly
23) In the Pines - Lead Belly
24) Pastures of Plenty - Woody Guthrie
25) Car Song - Woody Guthrie
26) We Shall Be Free - Woody Guthrie