Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child
Eighteen tracks of intimate, unvarnished folk recorded for the artist's own children. Sparse acoustic guitar and warm, paternal vocals captured on crackling 1940s acetate.
1991 · Folkways Records
Eighteen tracks of intimate, unvarnished folk recorded for the artist's own children. Sparse acoustic guitar and warm, paternal vocals captured on crackling 1940s acetate.
1991 · Folkways Records
This is Woody Guthrie at his most disarmed and domestic. Gone are the biting social critiques and the weary anthems of the Dust Bowl, replaced by the gentle, rhythmic cadence of a father entertaining his children. The recording quality is famously raw, preserving the hiss and pop of the original 1947 acetate discs, which only adds to the sense that you are eavesdropping on a private family moment in a small Brooklyn apartment. It feels less like a performance and more like a living document of paternal love.
How does Songs to Grow On for Mother and Child sound next to the rest of Woody Guthrie's catalogue?
The vocals lean far further into gentle than the rest of the catalogue.
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