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"So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (originally titled "Dusty Old Dust" [1]) is a song by American folk musician Woody Guthrie released as part of his album Dust Bowl Ballads. [1] The composition is considered one of Guthrie's best songs, defining his style, and demonstrating his "increasing comfort with writing topical songs about the poor ...
Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. It was released by Victor Records, in 1940. [4] All the songs on the album deal with the Dust Bowl and its effects on the country and its people. It is considered to be one of the first concept albums. [5]
The message of the song parallels a theme of John Steinbeck's seminal novel The Grapes of Wrath, wherein the Joad family makes a dangerous, expensive trip from their home in Oklahoma to California. They encounter a fellow Dust Bowl migrant at a roadside rest-stop who tells them to turn back, echoing the cautionary tone of the song.
British folk musician Billy Bragg covered the song for his 2013 album Tooth & Nail. Bob Dylan performed the song with The Band at both the afternoon and evening concerts for A Tribute To Woody Guthrie at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968. A recording of the first performance was released in 1972 on "A Tribute To Woody Guthrie Part One" Columbia ...
Vigilante Man" is a song by Woody Guthrie, recorded and released in 1940 as one of his Dust Bowl Ballads. [1] The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a man-made ecological catastrophe in the American Great Plains during the 1930s.
Born in Oildale, Calif., in 1937, he was the son of Dust Bowl refugees from Oklahoma and spent his early years living in a house that his father, James Haggard, had fashioned from an abandoned ...
Dust Bowl Ballads, Guthrie's album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, was included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World, [9] and many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. [10]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit perform at Hollywood Bowl on July 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA.