Beginners Guide to Folk Music

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: CD1_English Folk
2▶CD: CD2_Celtic Folk
3▼CD: CD3_American Folk
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1This Land is Your Land
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1946)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1946)
part of:
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 229)
recording of:
This Land Is Your Land (in 1946)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1940)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 16378)
is based on:
When the World's on Fire
Woody Guthrie3.52:21
2Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew)
recording of:
Morning Dew
additional lyricist:
Tim Rose (US singer/songwriter based mostly in UK)
lyricist and composer:
Bonnie Dobson
publisher:
Nina Music Company, Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23) and Warner–Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
Bonnie Dobson4:18
3Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
cover recording of:
Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
lyricist and composer:
Bob Dylan (in 1962-10)
publisher:
Sony Music Publishing (worldwide except Japan, ended 1995), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label), Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (UK subsidiary, so named between 1970/01/23–1971/04/26 and 1972/04/25–1988/08/23), Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!), Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.) (from 1963 until 1991) and Special Rider Music (from 1991 to present)
Pete Seeger5:22
4Gallows Tree
recording of:
Gallows Tree
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
Odetta2:53
5Midnight Special
recording of:
Midnight Special
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Union Songs AB (publisher)
Lead Belly2:13
6Stillborn
recording of:
Stillborn
writer:
Shocked
Michelle Shocked5:46
7Hesitation Blues
recording of:
Hesitation Blues
lyricist:
Rev. Gary Davis
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
version of:
Hesitation Blues
Dave Van Ronk2:35
8The Coo-Coo Bird
recording of:
The Cuckoo (in 1962)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 413)
Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley2:36
9What Have They Done to the Rain?
recording of:
What Have They Done to the Rain (first entitled “Rain Song”)
writer:
Malvina Reynolds (in 1962)
publisher:
Aberbach Musikverlag (German publisher), Essex Music and Schroder Music Company
Malvina Reynolds2:17
10Freedom Road
recording of:
Freedom Road
lyricist:
Langston Hughes
composer:
Emerson Harper
publisher:
Smithsonian Folkways (imprint of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Josh White2:20

Credits

Release

miscellaneous support:Chris Birrell (task: Co-ordination)
compiler:Nigel Williamson