Top 10 Woody Guthrie Covers
The Waterboys Play Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" (YouTube)
The “godfather of the 1950′s folk revival movement” (History.com) and the primary influence on Bob Dylan (and, in turn, everyone else), Woody Guthrie passed away on this day in 1967.
He suffered from what is now diagnosed as Huntington’s chorea, which was treated in psychiatric facilities during the ’50′s and ’60′s. He died at the Creedmore Psychiatric Center in Queens at the age of 55.
Here are the Top 10 Woody Guthrie Covers.
10. Ry Cooder – “Do Re Mi” (from Ry Cooder)
9. Nanci Griffith – “Deportee (Other Voices, Too)” (from A Trip Back to the Bountiful)
8. Emmylou Harris – “Hobo’s Lullaby” (from Folkways: A Vision Shared)
7. The Byrds – “Pretty Boy Floyd” (from Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
6. Hindu Love Gods – “Vigilante Man” (from Hindu Love Gods)
5. The Waterboys – “This Land Is Your Land” (from Fisherman’s Blues)
4. Uncle Tupelo – “Do Re Mi” (from 1992-06-11)
3. Beck – “I Ain’t Got No Home” (from Hi Fi Pollution)
2. U2 – “Jesus Christ” (from Folkways: A Vision Shared)
1. Sweet Honey in the Rock – “Sylvie” (from Folkways: A Vision Shared)
<em>More of Michael’s Top 10 picks can be found <a href=”http://wnew.radio.com/category/Top-10/”>here</a> …</em>
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