• Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Oct 22, 2013
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 29
  2. Negative: 11 out of 29
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  1. Jan 14, 2014
    10
    Anyone who gave this under a 9 is crazy. This is the good stuff; This is how music is supposed to be.

    “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
    ― Woody Guthrie
  2. Nov 18, 2013
    10
    "How Could you people give this a negative score? The #^$#s your problem?

    It's Woody Guthrie and he is a legend. It may not be your musical bag but show some respect."

    +1 to that
  3. Nov 17, 2013
    10
    How Could you people give this a negative score? The #^$#s your problem?

    It's Woody Guthrie and he is a legend. It may not be your musical bag but show some respect.
Metascore
95

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Magnet
    Nov 27, 2013
    90
    This portable section of the Library of Congress plays as well as it reads. [No. 104, p.56]
  2. Mojo
    Nov 25, 2013
    80
    If 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]
  3. Nov 21, 2013
    100
    He wanted change but loved America, as shown by this remarkable box set of material recorded for the US government.