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  • The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie
    • 1972 - Vanguard VSD 35/36 LP [x2] (USA)
  • Side One
    1. This Land Is Your Land — Woody Guthrie
    2. Do Re Mi Cisco Houston
    3. So Long — It's Been Good To Know Yuh The Weavers
    4. Pastures Of Plenty Odetta
    5. Roll On Columbia (Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter & John A. Lomax) — Country Joe McDonald
    6. Hard, Ain't It Hard — Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston
    7. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman) — Cisco Houston
  • Side Two
    1. A Group Of Children's Songs
      1. Pick It Up — The Babysitters
      2. (Take Me) Riding In My Car — Woody Guthrie
      3. Why Oh Why — The Babysitters
      4. Ship In The Sky — Cisco Houston
      5. Grassey Grass Grass — Woody Guthrie
    2. Old Lone Wolf — Cisco Houston
    3. Woody's Rag & 900 Miles — The Weavers
    4. 900 Miles — Cisco Houston
    5. Jackhammer John — The Weavers
    6. Tom Joad — Country Joe McDonald
  • Side Three
    1. I Ain't Got No Home — Cisco Houston
    2. The Sinking Of The Reuben James (Woody Guthrie; Last Verse Fred Hellerman) — The Weavers
    3. Dirty Overhalls — Woody Guthrie
    4. The Great Historical Bum — Odetta
    5. Talking Fishing Blues Jack Elliott
    6. Ladies Auxiliary — Cisco Houston
    7. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Woody Guthrie & Lee Hays) — Country Joe McDonald
    8. Buffalo Skinners Jim Kweskin
    9. Curly Headed Baby — Cisco Houston
  • Side Four
    1. 1913 Massacre — Jack Elliott
    2. Jesus Christ — Cisco Houston
    3. Rambling Round Your City (Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter & John A. Lomax) — Odetta
    4. When The Curfew Blows — Country Joe McDonald
    5. Pretty Boy Floyd Joan Baez
    6. Hard Travelln' — Woody Guthrie – w/Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry
    7. This Land Is Your Land — The Weavers

  • Musicians
    • Odetta is accompanied by Bill Lee — Bass
    • Cisco Houston is accompanied by Eric Weissberg — Mandolin & Fiddle
    • Joe McDonald is accompanied by a group led by Grady Martin
    • The Weavers are Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman & Lee Hays (and Erik Darling on tracks: 12 & 15)
    • The Babysitters are Alan Arkin, Lee Hays, Doris Kaplan, Jeremy Arkin & Barbara Dana
  • Credits
    • Produced by Maynard Solomon (Tracks: 2, 4, 7, 8d, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27)
    • Woody Guthrie was recorded by Moses Asch; used by permission of Folkways Records (Tracks: 1, 5, 6, 8b, 8e, 16, 28)
    • Produced by Samuel Charters (Tracks: 13, 20, 26)
    • Photo Credits
      • Cisco Houston: Fotiades
      • Joan Baez: William Claxton
      • Odetta: Pompeo Posar
      • Joe McDonald: Victor Pilosof
      • Jim Kweskin: Charlie Frizzell
      • Jack Elliott: Diana Davies
      • Weavers: Bert Owen
      • Baby Sitters photos supplied by fond parents.
    • Art Direction: Jules Halfant
    • Photo of Woody Guthrie and his family: David Gahr
    • Painting of Woody Guthrie: Eric von Schmidt
    • Design: Jules Halfant
    • All tracks written by Woody Guthrie, unless otherwise noted.