The Asch Recordings (Woody Guthrie Album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Asch Recordings
Type = Album
Artist = Woody Guthrie


Released = 1997 - 1999
Recorded = 1944 & 1945
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Smithsonian Folkways
Producer = Moe Asch
Reviews =
* Allmusic Volume 1 Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfoxqyhldhe link]
* Allmusic Volume 2 Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fuxqqjldfe link]
* Allmusic Volume 3 Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gcfpxqqjld6e link]
* Allmusic Volume 4 Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wifoxqwkld0e link]

Last album = The Columbia River Collection
(1944)
This album = "The Asch Recordings"
(1944 & 1945)
Next album = "Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti"
(1947)

Recorded in 1944 and 1945, 'The Asch Recordings' are possibly Woody Guthrie's most famous recordings, conducted over a series of days by Moses "Moe" Asch in New York City. The songs recorded by Asch comprise the bulk of Guthrie's original material and several traditional songs. They were issued on a variaty of labels over the years since under the labels Asch, Asch-Stinson, Asch-Signature-Stinson, Disc, Folkways and Verve/Folkways. The tracks for Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads, Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child and Nursery Days were from this session.

Folkways Release

The Smithsonian Folkways label repackaged and arranged these sessions in a series of 4 discs from 1997 - 1999, this is the most current release of these recordings.

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=Recording Detailcite book |last=Santeli, Davidson |first=Robert and Emily |title= "Hard Travelin' The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie" |year=1999 |publisher=Wesleyan, Hannover and London |isbn=0819563919 |pages=247,181-243] =

*Note: A blank cell below a date indicate that the date is repeated on that row.

Many recordings have unknown session dates. These are included in a list available at the United States Library of Congress titled "Surviving Recordings in the Smithsonian Folklife Archive Made by Woody Guthrie for Moses Asch". Moe Asch says Woody's kids song were recorded sometime in early 1947 and the Sacco and Vanzetti ballads were recorded Jauary 1947.

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