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The Columbia River Collection

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Released
  
1988

Artist
  
Woody Guthrie

Producer
  
Moses Asch

Genre
  
Folk music

Recorded
  
1941

Release date
  
1988

Label
  
Rounder Records

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The Columbia River Collection (1941)
  
The Asch Recordings (1944 & 1945)

Similar
  
Woody Guthrie albums, Folk music albums

The Columbia River Collection, originally released as the Columbia River Ballads, is a compilation album of songs folksinger Woody Guthrie wrote during his visit to the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington in 1941. Guthrie traveled to these states on the promise of a part narrating a documentary about the construction of public works dams and other projects in the Pacific Northwest. The documentary never came to fruition, but 17 of the 26 songs he wrote during this period were compiled and released as this collection, including some of his most famous songs, such as "Roll on Columbia", "Grand Coulee Dam", "Hard Travelin’," and "Pastures of Plenty."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Oregon Trail"
  2. "Roll on Columbia"
  3. "New Found Land"
  4. "Talking Columbia"
  5. "Roll Columbia, Roll"
  6. "Columbia’s Waters"
  7. "Ramblin’ Blues"
  8. "It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song"
  9. "Hard Travelin’"
  10. "The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done"
  11. "Jackhammer Blues"
  12. "Song of the Coulee Dam"
  13. "Grand Coulee Dam"
  14. "Washington Talkin’ Blues"
  15. "Ramblin’ Round"
  16. "Pastures of Plenty"
  17. "End of My Line"

Songs

1Oregon Trail2:45
2Roll on Columbia3:11
3New Found Land2:07

References

The Columbia River Collection Wikipedia
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