- Record Label: Rounder
- Release Date: Oct 22, 2013
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Oct 29, 2013Guthrie truly believed that songs should be of social service, and when the country asked for his songs, he brought them, as any patriot would. That dozens of these songs are enduring, beautiful, and wise makes Guthrie even more than that. It makes him an American treasure.
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Oct 29, 2013Surveys of his life and work still manage to produce fresh revelations, and American Radical Patriot, Rounder Records’ just-released collection of government-related Guthrie recordings, provides extraordinary new insight into the complex mind of this simple-sounding folk icon.
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MagnetNov 27, 2013This portable section of the Library of Congress plays as well as it reads. [No. 104, p.56]
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MojoNov 25, 2013If Guthrie sometimes plods wearily, betweenwhiles you get a hot stew of the laconic anger and irony that inspired the Seeger-Dylan-Springsteen-Bragg-and-beyond heritage. [Dec 2013, p.101]
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Oct 29, 2013American Radical Patriot is a treasure that’s flat-out perfect. Music doesn’t get any better than this.
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Oct 29, 2013This box set illuminates the complicated, tangled bits of history and ideology and personality that connect that man to that myth. Those threads are frayed, tough to follow at times, but strong.
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Nov 21, 2013He wanted change but loved America, as shown by this remarkable box set of material recorded for the US government.
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Oct 29, 2013It's an extraordinary collection, which demonstrates exactly why Guthrie was perhaps the only performer who could square the circle pointedly implied by the title American Radical Patriot.
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UncutNov 1, 2013Guthrie's work here gives birth to social conscience in pop culture, and this 157-track set, gets it all down in the context it deserves. [Dec 2013, p.82]
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