Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center CD/DVD & TV Special
This new CD/DVD commemorative package featuring a 12-page booklet containing rare photographs and a personal note from Woody's daughter, Nora captures the historic all-star concert staged in his honor last October in Washington, DC. The CD/DVD includes John's three performances: his solo "Do Re Mi," and his joining the entire roster of artists for "This Train Is Bound For Glory" and "This Land Is Your Land." The set will be available June 11, 2013 through Legacy Recordings.
The release coincides with the televised premiere of WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER in June on PBS. (Check your local listings.) Click "read more" for the complete press release, the track listings and a video of all the performers singing "This Land Is Your Land."
PRNEWSWIRE WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER ALL-STAR HISTORIC CONCERT TO BE RELEASED AS DELUXE CD+DVD PACKAGE
FEATURING JACKSON BROWNE, ROSANNE CASH, JUDY COLLINS, JEFF DANIELS, ANI DiFRANCO, DONOVAN, RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT, JOHN MELLENCAMP, AND MORE
PRESENTING WOODY's BEST KNOWN SONGS LIVE: "HARD TRAVELIN'," "RIDING IN MY CAR," "I AIN'T GOT NO HOME," "PRETTY BOY FLOYD," "PASTURES OF PLENTY," "DEPORTEE," "SO LONG, IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH," "DO RE MI," "THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY," "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND," AND MANY OTHERS
Centennial birthday celebration events held last year across the U.S. and Canada, Europe and the UK, coordinated and presented by the GRAMMY® Museum, in association with Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. and Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives
CD/DVD available everywhere June 11, 2013, through Legacy Recordings − coincides with televised premiere of one-hour version on PBS stations in June
NEW YORK, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY
CENTER pays homage to the artistry of American folk musician Woody Guthrie .
This new CD+DVD commemorative package captures the historic all-star concert
staged in his honor last October in Washington, DC. Featuring
performances from Jackson Browne , Rosanne Cash ,Judy Collins , Jeff
Daniels (reading a letter, not singing), Ani DiFranco , Donovan, Ramblin' Jack
Elliott , John Mellencamp , Tom Morello , Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucinda
Williams , and many others, the set will be available June 11,
2013 through Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
The release coincides with the televised premiere of WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE
AT THE KENNEDY CENTER in June on PBS. (Check your local listings.) The CD+DVD
package features eight performances not seen in the one-hour PBS broadcast,
including two spoken word performances from actor Jeff Daniels and six musical
performances from Old Crow Medicine Show,Jimmy LaFave , Rosanne Cash , Lucinda
Williams , Judy Collins , and Ramblin' Jack Elliott . Tracklists for the CD and
DVD differ so see full details below.
In October 2012 (the same month as the concert), Woody Guthrie : Ain't Got No
Home, written, produced and directed by Peter Frumkin as part of the
award-winning American Masters biography series, premiered on PBS.
The commemorative CD+DVD release will include a 12-page booklet containing rare
photographs and a personal note from Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie , who
administers the non-profit Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives, and Woody
Guthrie Publications, Inc. Cover art for the CD+DVD package is based on artist
Shepard Fairey's screen print designed for the 2012 Woody Guthrie Centennial.
WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER presents the ultimate live
collection of the most famous songs written and (mostly) recorded by Woody
Guthrie (b. July 14, 1912 – d. Oct. 3, 1967). They are performed by artists who
have all proclaimed Woody's influence on their craft down the years. The set
starts with a familiar pair from Nashville's Old Crow Medicine Show ("Howdi Do,"
"Union Maid"), followed by touchstones from Judy Collins ("Pastures Of
Plenty"), Jimmy LaFave("Hard Travelin'"), Donovan (the children's favorite,
"Riding In My Car"), Ani DiFranco ("Deportee" aka "Plane Wreck At Los Gatos"),
Sweet Honey In The Rock ("I've Got To Know"), and Ramblin' Jack Elliott ("1913
Massacre").
Rosanne Cash delivers a pair of Woody's finest ("I Ain't Got No Home" and
"Pretty Boy Floyd"); likewise John Mellencamp , an avowed Woody
Guthrie disciple, offers up one of his favorites ("Do Re Mi"). Bluegrass giants
the Del McCoury Band team with singer-songwriter Tim O'Brien on "So Long, It's
Been Good To Know Yuh" and special guest Tony Trischka (on banjo) joins the
group for Woody's only instrumental song, "Woody's Rag." The entire cast takes
the stage to close the concert with "This Train Is Bound For Glory" and, of
course, Woody's timeless "This Land Is Your Land."
Over the past two decades, at the invitation of Nora Guthrie , contemporary
musicians have composed music to Woody's previously unpublished lyrics. Several
of these artists presented their new songs at the concert, including Joel
Rafael("Ramblin' Reckless Hobo") and Lucinda Williams ("House Of Earth"). In
collaboration with Nora Guthrie , bassist/producer Rob Wasserman assembled a
full album of these new songs in 2011, Note of Hope. Two artists reprise their
contributions from that album, namely Jackson Browne ("You Know The Night")
and Tom Morello ("Ease My Revolutionary Mind").
The final contributor to WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is
Woody himself. The DVD bonus features include rare footage of Woody singing
" John Henry ," "Ranger's Command" and "Greenback Dollar," as well as spoken
pieces by Woody (and others) that are illustrated by archival photographs and
documentary footage. These portraits of Woody are reminders of how the songs
of Okemah, Oklahoma's favorite son took off around the world like a fast train
on a well-oiled track.
WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is the chronicle of a major,
post-modern hootenanny. It took place in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2012,
and was the culmination of the yearlong celebration, following events in Woody's
native Oklahoma, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and New York. Over 75
subsequent centennial events (dozens of concerts, tributes and dedications in
folk, jazz and classical realms, conferences, seminars, exhibits, dance
festivals, a stage musical) took place across the U.S. and Canada –
"From California to the New York Island" – and across the UK and Europe. Most of
those events, as well as the Kennedy Center concert, were organized and
presented by the GRAMMY® Museum, in association with Woody Guthrie Publications,
Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives.
Playing a major role in the centennial campaign is Robert Santelli , Executive
Director of the GRAMMY® Museum in Los Angeles, which curated the Woody Guthrie
Centennial. Santelli is the award-winning author of This Land Is Your
Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song (Running Press,
2012), and co-editor of Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody
Guthrie (Wesleyan, 1999). Santelli also co-produced and co-annotated Woody at
100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial(Smithsonian Folkways). The coffee table-sized,
3-CD (and 150-page book) box set was released July 10, 2012, four days before
Woody's actual 100th birth date on July 14th. The box set went on to win this
year's Grammy Award® for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package.
In February 2013, HarperCollins published House Of Earth, a previously
unpublished completed manuscript by Woody Guthriethat has been lost to readers
since its creation in 1947. The book was edited and introduced by presidential
historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp , and published on Depp's imprint,
Infinitum Nihil. House Of Earth finally provides a complement to Woody's
classic autobiography Bound For Glory ( E.P. Dutton , 1943), a book that has
exerted enormous influence on generations of musicians around the world,
including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg , Joe Strummer , and
countless others.
WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is produced and directed by
four-time Emmy Award-winner Jim Brown of Ginger Group Productions. Brown, an
associate professor at NYU's Tisch School Of the Arts, is one of America's most
accomplished music documentary filmmakers, with a concentration in American folk
music, and has created some of the most enduring films in that genre. He
received Emmys for The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time! (1981), We Shall
Overcome (1989), andPete Seeger : The Power of Song (2007). Two of Brown's
films, A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly(1988) and Songs
Of the Civil War (1991), were released with Columbia Records CD counterparts.
Other titles include Woody Guthrie : Hard Travelin' (1984), Pete Seeger Family
Concert (1991), Peter, Paul, and Mary: Carry It on - A Musical Legacy(2004), and
two Harry Belafonte films, An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends (1997), and
the biography, Sing Your Song(2011). Most of Jim Brown 's folk music films are
very familiar to PBS viewers, as a result of being screened frequently for
decades.
" Woody Guthrie never forgot about the people for whom the American Dream was
far out of reach," Santelli has written. "It was as if he had made a promise
blessed in blood never to ignore the plight of the struggling American, no
matter who he was, where he came from, or why he had hit hard times. Woody
Guthrie sought to be the voice of the jobless, the homeless, and voiceless. And
he was. Here's hoping that Woody and his songs continue to be that voice for the
next hundred years."
WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER CD+DVD
(Legacy Recordings 88883 72809 2 1)
CD:
Howdi Do – Old Crow Medicine Show
Union Maid – Old Crow Medicine Show
Ramblin'
Reckless Hobo – Joel Rafael
Hard Travelin' - Jimmy LaFave
Riding In My Car –
Donovan
I Ain't Got No Home – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
Pretty Boy Floyd
– Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
I've Got To Know – Sweet Honey In The
Rock
House Of Earth – Lucinda Williams
Pastures Of Plenty – Judy Collins
Ease My
Revolutionary Mind – Tom Morello
Deportee – Ani DiFranco with Ry Cooder and Dan
Gellert
You Know The Night – Jackson Browne
So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh –
Del McCoury Band with Tim O'Brien
Woody's Rag – Del McCoury Band with Tim O'Brien
and Tony Trischka
Do Re Mi – John Mellencamp
1913 Massacre – Ramblin' Jack
Elliott
This Train Is Bound For Glory – All Performers
This Land Is Your Land –
All Performers
DVD:
Howdi Do – Old Crow Medicine Show*
Union Maid – Old Crow Medicine Show
This
Is Our Country Here – Jeff Daniels*
Ramblin' Reckless Hobo – Joel
Rafael
Hard Travelin' - Jimmy LaFave *
Riding In My Car – Donovan
I Ain't Got
No Home – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal *
* Pretty Boy Floyd – Rosanne
Cash with John Leventhal
I've Got To Know – Sweet Honey In The Rock
House Of Earth
– Lucinda Williams
Pastures Of Plenty – Judy Collins*
Ease My Revolutionary
Mind – Tom Morello
Deportee – Ani DiFranco with Ry Cooder and Dan Gellert
I Hate A
Song (spoken word) – Jeff Daniels*
You Know The Night – Jackson Browne
So
Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh – Del McCoury Band with Tim O'Brien
Woody's Rag
– Del McCoury Band with Tim O'Brien and Tony Trischka*
Do Re Mi – John
Mellencamp
1913 Massacre – Ramblin' Jack Elliott*
Nora Guthrie (spoken
word)
This Train Is Bound For Glory – All Performers
This Land Is Your Land – All
Performers
* Bonus track which does not appear in televised PBS special
The Woody at 100! special is being used in most PBS broadcast markets as part if their pledge drive week. Most PBS stations do their pledge drive in June, but not all. Therefore the local air dates for the special will vary wildly.
Below is an update we were given on a number of markets on when you can expect the special to air, but ultimately please watch your local listings for when it will air.
STATIONS AIRING WOODY GUTHRIE SPECIAL IN JUNE:
WNET- NEW YORK - 6/7 - 9pm, 6/10 - 10 pm
WLIW - NEW YORK - 6/2 - 630 pm, 6/3 - 12 am, 6/3 - 11:30 pm, 6/4 - 2 pm, 6/7 - 4:30 pm
NJN -NEW JERSEY NETWORK - 6/8 - 9:30 pm, 6/10 - 1:30 am, 6/11 - 3:3 am
WILL - Urbana, IL - 6/1 - 10:30 pm
TPT- Minneapolis, MN - 6/2-10 pm, 6/3 - 4:30 am
WUCF - Orlando, FL - 6/14 - 9pm
WFYI- Indianapolis, IN - 6/7-9pm, 6/1- 9:30 pm
WPSU - Serves Central Pennsylvania - 6/1 - 9:30 pm, 6/8 - 8 pm
WGVU- Grand Rapids, MI - 6/14 - 10:30 pm, 6/16 - 7pm
MPTV- Milwaukee, - 6/14 -9pm
WMVS- Milwaukee - 6/14 - 10pm
KCTS- Seattle - not for June pledge, possible Aug
UNC- Raleigh, NC - 6/7-1pm
Lakeshore Public TV - 6/23- 3:30p, 6/25- 1pm, 6/29 - 5am
KEET- Eureka, CA - 6/15 - 8pm
Colorado Public TV - JUNE - TBA
ALABAMA PUBLIC TV - 6/3- 9PM
KNPB - Reno - 6/3 - 9:30 pm
PBS So Cal - Los Angeles - 6/1- 11pm
Houston PBS - 6/1 - 11pm
KVPT - Fresno, CA - 6/1 - 11pm
Mountain Lake PBS - Plattsburg, NY - (Montreal mkt) - 6/8-9:30 pm, 6/12 - 9:30 pm
WEDU- Tampa - 6/10 - 10:30 pm
WFSU - Tallahassee, FL - 6/3-9:30 pm, 6/8 - 9pm
WGCU- Ft Myers - 6/1 - 11pm
WJCT - Jacksonville, FL - 6/1 - 11pm
WMHT- Albany, NY - 6/4 - 7:30 pm
WNIT- South Bend, IN - 6/2 - 10 pm
WPBT- Miami /Ft Lauderdale - 6/3 - 11pm
WTCI- Chattanooga, TN - 6/8 - 10 pm
WTVI - Peoria - 6/1 - 12 midnite, 6/3 - 10 pm
WUCF- Orlando, FL - 6/14 - 9pm
KAET- Phoenix - 6/4 - 9pm
WIPB- Muncie/ Indy - 6/6 -9:30 pm
Lakeland Public TV - Minneapolis - 6/1 - 930 pm, 6/9 - 3:30 pm
WNED- Buffalo, NY - 6/7 - 11:30 pm, (putting in regular Austin City Limits slot)
KNCT- Austin, TX - 6/1 - 6:30 pm, 6/4 - 8:30 pm
KVIE- Sacramento, CA - 6/1 - 11:30 am, 6/2 - 1:30 pm, 6/3 - 2pm, 6/3 - 8:30 pm
WTVI- Peoria - 6/1-12 midnite, 6/3 - 10 pm