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Folkways: A Vision Shared

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Released
  
August 23, 1988

Release date
  
23 August 1988

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
45:55

Producer
  
Harold Leventhal

Genre
  
Folk music

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Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly is a 1988 album featuring songs by Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly interpreted by leading folk, rock, and country recording artists. It won a Grammy Award the same year.

Contents

Produced by Harold Leventhal, Guthrie's long-time business manager and folk music and theatrical impresario, the album received widespread critical acclaim and included performances by Guthrie's son, Arlo Guthrie, and many other luminaries: Bob Dylan, Fishbone, Emmylou Harris, Little Richard, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Little Red School House Chorus (Sarah St. Onge, director), Taj Mahal, U2, and Brian Wilson.

Side one

  1. "Sylvie" (Lead Belly) - Sweet Honey in the Rock – 2:01
  2. "Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie) - Bob Dylan – 4:34
  3. "Do Re Mi" (Woody Guthrie) - John Mellencamp – 3:23
  4. "I Ain't Got No Home" (Woody Guthrie) - Bruce Springsteen – 3:40
  5. "Jesus Christ" (Woody Guthrie) - U2 – 3:13
  6. "Rock Island Line" (Lead Belly) - Little Richard with Fishbone – 2:32
  7. "East Texas Red" (Woody Guthrie) - Arlo Guthrie – 5:34

Side two

  1. "Philadelphia Lawyer" (Woody Guthrie) - Willie Nelson – 2:59
  2. "Hobo's Lullaby" (Goebel Reeves; performed by Woody Guthrie) - Emmylou Harris – 2:41
  3. "The Bourgeois Blues" (Lead Belly) - Taj Mahal – 2:43
  4. "Grey Goose" (traditional; performed by Lead Belly) - Sweet Honey in the Rock – 2:07
  5. "Goodnight, Irene" (Lead Belly) - Brian Wilson – 2:38
  6. "Vigilante Man" (Woody Guthrie) - Bruce Springsteen - 4:09
  7. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) - Pete Seeger with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Doc Watson & The Little Red School House Chorus – 3:45

Songs

1SylvieSweet Honey in the Rock2:06
2Pretty Boy FloydBob Dylan4:26
3Do Re MiJohn Mellencamp3:24

References

Folkways: A Vision Shared Wikipedia
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