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- Record Label: Rounder
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
- Summary: Unreleased songs from folk legend Woody Guthrie are interpreted by Son Volt's Jay Farrar, Centro-matic's Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James.
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- Record Label: Rounder
- Genre(s): Folk, Americana, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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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Apr 19, 2012New Multitudes is a resilient tribute to Woody Guthrie based on the folk pioneer's unpublished lyrics.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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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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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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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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Feb 28, 2012Four singer-songwriters tag-team in a folk-rock vein, and the high points are when voices unite.
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