Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie's well-known melody combined with Robert DeCormier's incomparable arranging skill provides a musical moment that will be fun for your choir and your audience.Available separately: SATB only. Performance time: Approx. 3:05.

The Columbia River Songs 75th Anniversary Collection-This collection features the original versions of all 26 songs Guthrie submitted to the Bonneville Power Administration in 1941 to promote development of the Columbia River and hydro-power with a new introduction by Bill Murlin.Songs include: 'The Ballad of Jackhammer John' 'Columbia's Waters' 'Grand Coulee Dam' 'Hard Travelin'' 'It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song' 'Lumber Is King' 'Oregon Trail' 'Portland Town to Klamath Falls' 'Ramblin' Blues' 'Roll Columbia Roll' 'Washington Talkin' Blues' 'The White Ghost Train' and more.

Dusty Old Dust-Woody Guthrie the great Oklahoma balladeer wrote this song about the terrible Oklahoma dust storms that literally blew the land away and forced many of the ?Okies? to migrate west to California. Like the old folksaying ?I'm laughing to keep from crying ? Woody gives this tragic story a comic twist. Available: SATB. Performance Time: Approx. 3:00.

Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar-Woody Guthrie's songs gave direction and purpose to a generation of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s and they continue to move millions of people today. This Land Is Your Land has become an alternate national anthem! In this 101 minute lesson Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play backup and solos to ten of Woody's best known songs. It's a great lesson in fingerpicking as well as an intro to some moving classic tunes from America's legendary poet/songwriter. Fred makes it easy to learn with split-screen slowed down versions of the songs and helpful hints about the licks and picking styles. All the songs are written out in tab and musicnotation in the PDF file that comes with the lesson. All lyrics are also included. Titles include: Pastures of Plenty So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh Bound For Glory (This Train) Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) Do Re Mi Philadelphia Lawyer Oklahoma Hills My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky) Hard Travelin' and Pretty Boy Floyd. 101 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Now available in 2-part and SSA this Woody Guthrie melody combined with Robert DeCormier's incomparable arranging skill provides a musical moment that will be fun for your choir and your audience.

Discovery Level 1-It's been sung by everyone from Bruce Springsteen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to millions of American school children! This legendary song was written in 1940 by America's Troubadour Woody Guthrie whose centenary was celebratedin 2012 and this setting for younger choirs with a partner song style harmony part is easy to learn and fun to sing. Discovery Level 1.