[78-L] Article in today's WSJ on the new Woody Guthrie Box

[Peter Fraissinet]

Yes, it's that old Lonesome Road Blues, and Woody starts off with a 
couple of stanzas of the familiar song, but most of the lyrics he 
sings are his own, so it is now a Guthrie composition as he sings 
it.  It is substantially changed from G. Reneau and others.

They say I'm a dust bowl refugee,
Yes, they say I'm a dust bowl refugee,
They say I'm a dust bowl refugee, Lord, Lord,
An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.

Peter Fraissinet
West Danby NY

At 09:13 AM 8/26/2009, you wrote:
>Good article, but Luke Torn describes "Going Down the Road (I Ain't
>Gonna Be Treated This Way)"  as "a signature Guthrie composition".
>Isn't this the same song that's at the Edison National Park website
>under the title "Lonesome Road Blues" recorded by The Blue Ridge Duo
>(Gene Austin and George Reneau) on Edison Diamond Disc 51515-R in 1925?
>Surely it's not a Woody Guthrie composition?
>
>Bart