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Sold Date:
January 18, 2023
Start Date:
October 6, 2022
Final Price:
$79.87
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This Collection Presents For The First Time the full range of material he recorded for the United States Government, Both In Song And Spoken Word. This Publication Brings Together Two Significant Bodies Of Work - The Songs And The Stories Woody Recorded For The Library Of Congress, And The Material He Created When Hired To Write Songs For The Bonneville Power Administration. There Have Been Records Released In The Past Of The Library of Congress Recordings, But This Collection Is The First Time That The Complete And Unedited Library of Congress Sessions Have Been Released. These Songs From Those Recording Dates Have Been Available In The Past -- Notably From Elektra And From Rounder - But We Offer Here The Full Body of Work, Including The Hours Of Woody Guthrie Talking And Telling His Story.
TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRES AND BPA RECORDINGS, We Have Also Added Material Which Woody Recorded For Governmental Or Quasi-Governmental Efforts-Some Songs And Two 15-Minute Radio Dramas For The Office Of The War Information During The Second World War And Another Drama Offered To Public Health Agencies To Fight The Spread of Venereal Disease.
CDs And 10 Inch 33 1/3 Album Are Untested; All Appear Clean
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