A new track-by-track remake of Guthrie's album 'Dust Bowl Ballads' features Lee Ann Womack, Waxahatchee, Swamp Dogg, and more.
didn’t originate the way one would have thought. While putting together, a collection of songs about that holiday that included tracks from Haim and the Flaming Lips, Poster realized that Guthrie, whose wife Marjorie was Jewish, had written Hanukkah tunes himself. That in turn led Poster to delve back into Guthrie’s work. major label release, for RCA, and still stands as one of his greatest works.
For contributors, Poster pulled together artists with whom he’d worked before — like Womack, Thile, and Shovels & Rope, who contributed to his album of Civil War songs — and others he hadn’t, like Oklahoma-based singer-songwriter Parker Millsap. For the part-two version of “Tom Joad,” he recruited Lillie Mae, the singer and fiddler who played on recent Jack White solo albums and was also in his all-female band.
Some, like Wall, who is a rancher, picked the songs they’d record; others, like Lanegan and Womack, were open to suggestions. Regarding “Dusty Old Dust,” Womack admits, “I wasn’t aware of it, but I gravitate toward things that are similar to the music I grew up with — East Texas, rural area, small town, working-class people. So I’m not surprised I would connect with something like that.”
The biggest challenge came when making the record: The Covid-19 quarantine necessitated home-recording or down-low visits to studios — Wall’s track was cut “in a plywood bunkhouse,” according to the credits — but somehow the multi-artist album got done. “People were also happy to have some work to do,” Poster says. “We really do want to draw attention to the current environmental issues, and I think people were captivated by that.
Even those artists who admittedly weren’t Guthrie experts clicked with the concept and realized how timely these songs remain. “I’m a sucker for any kind of period piece, be it a movie or TV show or a song,” Womack says. “If you can hear a song like this, it takes you to another place — and not a fabricated place, but the real thing.”
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