- Record Label: Rounder
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
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Feb 28, 2012The effect is both panoramic and cloistered, an aptly manic-depressive tribute not only to the band's source material and Guthrie's lasting relevance, but to the lonesome crowded West that so many have worked to document since.
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Apr 19, 2012New Multitudes is a resilient tribute to Woody Guthrie based on the folk pioneer's unpublished lyrics.
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Feb 28, 2012When all is said and done, New Multitudes is a staggering work and a crowning achievement.
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Mar 13, 2012Farrar, Parker, Johnson, and Yames have done the Guthrie family proud and provided a perfect centennial gift to music fans worldwide.
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Mar 8, 2012New Multitudes shows, just as Mermaid Avenue did in 1998, that Woody Guthrie's work remains a living entity with a limitless capacity to inspire.
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Feb 29, 2012It marks the centennial of Guthrie's birth and is a fitting tribute.
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MojoFeb 28, 2012To fresh melodies of Guthrie would surely have smiled upon, the four adorn every lyric with fine guitar weaves of rollicking dance, rugged grind or Paris, Texas haunt. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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UncutFeb 28, 2012Guthrie's work endures because if its essential big-hearted hospitality--and Farrar, Johnson, Parker and Yames have mad themselves right at home. [Mar 2012, p.93]
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Feb 29, 2012These concoctions have inherent charm both from Guthrie's typically pithy, sometimes deceptively trenchant writer's eye and from the foursome's fittingly earnest musical settings.
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Mar 13, 2012The level of familiarity turns out to be one of the records strong suits, and something that distinguishes it from the Bragg/Wilco records.
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Feb 28, 2012In the end, these four alt-folkies honor their idol's legacy, providing a gateway for a younger generation of fans to further experience and explore the importance of Woody Guthrie.
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Feb 28, 2012New Multitudes, on the other hand, aims for a darker and more introspective tone, and when Farrar takes center stage, he unwittingly reveals his Achilles' Heel--no matter who he works with, he insists on dominating the musical conversation, and when his co-writer has been dead since 1967, there's not much hope for any real balance.
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Feb 28, 2012Four singer-songwriters tag-team in a folk-rock vein, and the high points are when voices unite.
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