Saturday Sinema: Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

coming to DVD on June 7th

Previously-unreleased, 1970 benefit concert featuring 

Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Country Joe McDonald + more

This All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 celebrates the life and work of the legendary folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie, whose songs have become part of the bedrock of American life. Three years after Guthrie died of Huntington's disease in 1967, the California chapter of the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease, now known as the Hereditary Disease Foundation, helped stage this concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to raise funds for Huntington's research.

Although the concert took place one night only,  4-time Emmy award winner Jim Brown filmed this historic event, with performances by such renowned artists as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliot,Earl Robinson, and The Band along with narration by actors Will Geer and Peter Fonda.

Extras include 3 not previously recorded songs performed by Joan Baez, Odetta and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, as well as concert rehearsal footage and audio interviews with Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

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Track Listing

• Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Country Joe Mcdonald, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Earl Robinson and Band - This Train Is Bound For Glory
• Arlo Guthrie - Oklahoma Hills
• Country Joe Mcdonald - Pretty Boy Floyd
• Joan Baez and Pete Seeger - So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh
• Country Joe Mcdonald, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Pete Seeger - Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
• Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home
• Arlo Guthrie - Do Re Mi
• Joan Baez - Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
• Odetta - Ramblin' Round
• Pete Seeger and Earl Robinson - Roll On Columbia
• Richie Havens - Nine Hundred Miles
• Country Joe Mcdonald - Woman At Home
• Pete Seeger - The Sinking Of The Reuben James
• Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Country Joe Mcdonald, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Earl Robinson and Band - I've Got To Know
• Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Country Joe Mcdonald, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Earl Robinson and Band - This Land Is Your Land
• Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Country Joe Mcdonald, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Earl Robinson and Band - This Train Is Bound For Glory
• Ramblin' Jack Elliott - 1913 Massacre
• Odetta - John Hardy
• Joan Baez - Pastures Of Plenty

Bonus Materials:

• Twelve minutes of extras including 3 not previously recorded songs performed by Joan Baez, Odetta and Ramblin' Jack Elliott
• Concert rehearsal footage and audio interviews with Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott 

The Man Who Discovered Bob Dylan...

Folklore in the City Izzy Young "Talking Folklore Center" Coming to DVD on August 14th The man who discovered Bob Dylan returns to Greenwich Village  to revisit the Folklore Center days... Izzy Young? Find out...

Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and collaborators like Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs, Mayor Ed Koch to reminisce. It includes unique archival footage and folk music from the 1960s. Young is credited with playing a crucial role in the rise of folk music in the 1960s, and with catapulting a young Bob Dylan to stardom by arranging his first proper concert, at Carnegie Chapter Hall, in 1961. He opened Izzy Young's Folklore Center on MacDougal Street in New York's Greenwich Village in 1959. It became a focal point for the American folk music scene of the time, a place where one could find such limited circulation publications as Caravan and Gardyloo. From 1959 to 1969, Young wrote a column entitled "Fret and Frails" for the folk music journal Sing Out. He served on the "editorial advisory board" for the magazine until his departure for Sweden a few years later. Young arranged concerts with folk musicians and songwriters, who often made contacts with other musicians at the Folklore Center. Bob Dylan relates in his memoirs, Chronicles, how he spent time at the Center, where Young allowed him to sit in the backroom of the store, listening to folk music records and reading books. Dylan met Dave Van Ronk in the store, and Young produced Dylan's first concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City on Saturday, November 4, 1961. "I broke my ass to get people to come," Young said in a recent interview with Tablet. "Only 52 people showed up but about 300 people remember being there. Everyone wants to say they were there. You understand?"  Dylan wrote a song about the store and Young entitled "Talking Folklore Center". DVD Pre-Order:  http://bit.ly/1LZSpLe Amazon:  http://amzn.to/1L2AOkg