Muleskinner Blues [Import]

Track Listings
1. Mulskinner Blues(Featuring Van Morrison)    
2. Please Don't Call Me In The Morning    
3. Rock Island Line    
4. When I Get Off This Feeling    
5. Fancy Talking Tinker    
6. I'm Alabammy Bound(Featuring Van Morrison)    
7. Stewball    
8. Skiffle    
9. The Welfare Line    
10. All Together Now    
11. I Don't Wanna Lose You    
12. Poker Club    
13. Spanish Nights    
14. Always From The Heart    

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
1999 album by the seminal Scottish blues/ folk guitarist who's style influenced dozens of bands, including the Beatles & the Rolling Stones. His first studio album in over20 years, it features new versions of his classics 'Rock Island Line', 'I'm Alabammy Bound' & 'Muleskinner Blues' alongside beautifully crafted new compositions. Guests include Van Morrison, Albert Lee, Sam Brown, Chris Barber, Jerry Allison and Jaqui McShee. 14 tracks total.

Muleskinner Blues, Music, Lonnie Donegan, British Folk, England, Pop, Pop Vocals, Rock/Pop, Rockabilly, Skiffle
Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The songs that influenced Guthrie...
  • Country as well as folk.
  • One of the best
  • Classic Folk Music
 Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2
Woody Guthrie
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
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ASIN: B000001DJZ
Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

  1. Muleskinner Blues
  2. Wreck Of The Old 97
  3. Sally Goodin'
  4. Little Black Train
  5. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
  6. Baltimore To Washington
  7. Rubber Dolly
  8. 21 Years
  9. Sowing On The Mountain
  10. Bed On The Floor
  11. Take A Wiff On Me
  12. Stepstone
  13. Put My Little Shoes Away
  14. Hen Cackle
  15. Poor Boy
  16. Stackolee
  17. Johnny Hart
  18. Worried Man Blues
  19. Danville Girl
  20. Gambling Man
  21. Rye Straw
  22. Crawdad Song
  23. Ida Red
  24. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy
  25. Train 45

Amazon.com

Muleskinner Blues, volume two of the four CD series The Asch Recordings, is important not for its treasure trove of Woody Guthrie originals, but for its peek at the Okie troubadour's own deep roots. Muleskinner collects many of the old songs--"Danville Girl," "Stackolee"--that Guthrie knew and loved from his younger days. These are songs he learned at his mother's knee, at picking parties, and in the hobo jungles; the songs that he would later turn into his own with new lyrics, licks, and arrangements. Selections range from the maudlin "Put My Little Shoes Away" to the hardy "Johnny Hart." Altogether this sprightly collection is an important part of Guthrie's fascinating story. Great notes from historian Guy Logsdon, too. --Michael Ruby

Album Description

The songs on this recording, the second in a series of four, represent a selection from the vast storehouse of American folk and country songs that Woody Guthrie learned and incorporated into his early radio career and song books he sold on the air. In the early 1940s, upon coming to New York, Guthrie and frequent partner Cisco Houston recorded hundreds of songs for Folkways Records founder Moses Asch (160 alone in 1944). This series represents the best of these historic recordings. Muleskinner Blues highlights the non-original material that Guthrie recorded for Asch and includes American folk song standards, many of which became part of the American folk song canon due to Guthrie's influence. Running time 67 min, 40-page booklet includes historical and biographical notes on Woody Guthrie. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. "Monumental stuff" --CMJ New Music Report

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The songs that influenced Guthrie..........2006-03-10

Woody Guthrie influenced loads of singers, songwriters, folk singers, poets, activists, and storytellers. In turn, he also had his own influences. When he popped onto planet earth in 1912, nineteenth century culture, with its vast repertoire of popular songs and stories, still lingered in people's everyday lives. Some of the songs Guthrie grew up with date back to that previous looming century, and he recorded many of them later in life. This second volume of Moses Asch recordings compiles some of these songs as well as other traditional songs Guthrie picked up in his wanderings throughout the 1930s. Many of them also showed up on his popular California radio shows. Guthrie penned none of the tunes on this disc, but he arranged most of them to his own style and added his own lyrical touches here and there. Nonetheless, his indefatigable style shines on every track.

The title track, "Muleskinner Blues", shows Guthrie taking on a Jimmie Rodgers song (also known as "Blue Yodel #8). But Guthrie, unlike Rodgers, rarely yodeled (though he yodels with gusto on "Bed on the Floor"). The stylings of the immensely popular Carter family instead influenced his development. And many of Guthrie's early melodies came from Carter family compositions. Folk music tended to work this way. Tunes and lyrics radiated through the multitudinous regional music scenes scattered throughout the country. The composers and origins of some songs remain forever obscured in murky mystery. But some musicians won writer's rights through the legal system. Recording technology truly changed music forever. Guthrie came of age in this era, and so borrowed many songs and tunes for his own purpose. This wasn't unusual.

Some of the songs nonetheless do possess recorded histories. "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet" traces back to a Scottish ballad from the 1790s. And the heartstring tuggers "Stepstone" and "Put my Little Shoes Away" date to 1880 and 1873 respectively. Some songs have eyebrow raising origins. "Take a Whiff on Me" comes from an era, according to the CD booklet, "...when opium and cocaine could be purchased at the drug store, and songs about cocaine, like 'Rye Whiskey' about alcohol, were known nationally." The song celebrates the sharing of a good snort between pals. Times change.

Guthrie also played fiddle, but his skills apparenly remained somewhat unremarkable on this particular instrument. Three tracks nonetheless feature Guthrie's fiddling: the rousing "Sally Goodin'", "Hen Cackle", and "Rye Straw".

Accompanying Guthrie on many of these tracks is Cisco Houston (Guthrie even backs Houston on the Biblical "Sowing on the Mountain"). Their long partnership lasted for over a decade and helped spread the popularity of folk music. The influence of these songs on them, and their subsequent influence on twentieth century music remains incalculable. Out of this era evolved country, folk, and eventually rockabilly. Most modern music has its roots in folk music and African-American spirituals. This great collection of songs emphasizes the folk side of the spectrum, though many of these songs do originate from spirituals ("Little Black Train", "Bed on the Floor", "Stackolee", "Crawdad Song", and the haunting "Train 45"). Though most know that Guthrie influenced such twentieth century musical giants as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, this CD offers a rare and underappreciated glimpse at the songs that influenced Guthrie.

4 out of 5 stars Country as well as folk........2002-03-17

I am glad to see that certain folksingers such as Woody
Guthrie are now also considered country singers. After all,
some folk music is traditional nonpopular country music, and
some folk music is not country music.

5 out of 5 stars One of the best.......2000-08-30

I bought this CD to complete the Asch set of 4, not especially enthusiastic about it because I knew that none of the compositions were penned by Guthrie. I'm not sure what I was expecting, exactly - maybe square dance tunes and cornball folk songs. In fact, the disc attests to Guthrie's excellent taste in "traditional" music. These songs are memorable, funny, melancholy, weird and delightful, among other things - here is simplicity without schmaltz or stupidity. Guthrie's performances are generally adequate, often inspired, and some tracks offer rare opportunities to hear Woody play the fiddle! Of all the Asch recordings, this disc is the most fun through and through - a Dust Bowl Bacchanale.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Folk Music.......2000-06-18

This album is a must for any fan of folk music, acoustic blues, or country/western. The songs are all excellent. Guthrie plays an integral role in american music, and this album shows some of his influences. There are no original songs. The liner notes are great. They often mention the influence of the Carter family on Guthrie, and some of the songs were done by them. Guthrie is often with Cisco Houston; some songs are solo, and Sonny Terry occasionally plays. Guthrie's music is essential, and hopefully with two recent tribute albums more people will listen to him, rather than only having heard of him.
Muleskinner Blues
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Still Rockin'
 Muleskinner Blues
Lonnie Donegan
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IBF0
Release Date: 1999-04-06

Tracks:

  1. Mulskinner Blues(Featuring Van Morrison)
  2. Please Don't Call Me In The Morning
  3. Rock Island Line
  4. When I Get Off This Feeling
  5. Fancy Talking Tinker
  6. I'm Alabammy Bound(Featuring Van Morrison)
  7. Stewball
  8. Skiffle
  9. The Welfare Line
  10. All Together Now
  11. I Don't Wanna Lose You
  12. Poker Club
  13. Spanish Nights
  14. Always From The Heart

Album Description

1999 album by the seminal Scottish blues/ folk guitarist who's style influenced dozens of bands, including the Beatles & the Rolling Stones. His first studio album in over20 years, it features new versions of his classics 'Rock Island Line', 'I'm Alabammy Bound' & 'Muleskinner Blues' alongside beautifully crafted new compositions. Guests include Van Morrison, Albert Lee, Sam Brown, Chris Barber, Jerry Allison and Jaqui McShee. 14 tracks total.

Album Details

Van Morrison Guests on Several Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Still Rockin'.......2007-02-06

Lonnie Donegan is still putting out great music, the tracks with Van Morrison are great. A must for Rock-A-Billy fans who missed Lonnie the first time around.....A Very good album, covering some of the Rock-A-Billy favs!

The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON 89.3 Dallas, Texas

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