This Machine Kills Fascists

by Woody Guthrie

This Machine Kills Fascists cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 2.79/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Taking its title from the slogan Guthrie painted on his guitar, 'This Machine Kills Fascists' is a Smithsonian Folkways compilation of Woody Guthrie's 1940s recordings for Moses Asch. It gathers the Dust Bowl ballads and union songs that made Guthrie the foundational voice of American folk protest.

Genres

Descriptors: protest, acoustic, folk, compilation, historical

Tracklist

  1. Pretty Boy Floyd
  2. Hard It Ain't Hard
  3. Gypsy Davy
  4. Buffalo Skinners
  5. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
  6. Bury Me Beneath This Pillow
  7. Chain Gang Special
  8. Columbus Stockade
  9. Cumberland Gap
  10. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
  11. Hey Lolly Lolly
  12. John Henry
  13. Stackolee With Sonny
  14. Sourwood Mountain
  15. Rangers Command
  16. Poor Boy
  17. More Pretty Girls Than One
  18. Lost John With Sonny
  19. Lonesome Day
  20. Worried Man Blues

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