{"id":9396,"date":"2012-02-03T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2012-02-03T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:53:07","slug":"woody-guthrie-gets-his-due-again-this-time-from-jim-james-and-cohorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-02\/woody-guthrie-gets-his-due-again-this-time-from-jim-james-and-cohorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Guthrie Gets His Due Again, This Time From Jim James and Cohorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Legendary folk-troubadour, Woody Guthrie<\/strong>, has received deserved accolades and admiration from the general public and fellow musicians alike over the years.\u00a0 Over a decade ago, Woody’s daughter, Nora Guthrie, sought help from Billy Bragg<\/strong> and Wilco<\/strong> to put music to Woody’s lyrics that she had unearthed.\u00a0 The result was two Mermaid Avenue<\/strong> albums, which helped to bring Woody’s music to a new set of listeners (for anyone who hasn’t heard the song California Stars<\/strong><\/em> by Wilco<\/strong>, you are missing out–check out a great singalong with California kids HERE<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Comes now a supergroup comprised of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James<\/strong> (billed as Yim Yames<\/strong>), Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson<\/strong>, and Varnaline’s Anders Parker<\/strong>, who have teamed up and dreamed up music for more Woody Guthrie lyrics.\u00a0 The result is a new album entitled New Multitudes<\/strong>, which comes out Feb. 28. <\/em><\/p>\n

As will be heard, this ain’t your great-grandaddy’s folk music.\u00a0 New Multitudes ladles on electric guitar and psychedelic pop sounds to the LA-centric lyrics for a whole new Guthrie vantage.\u00a0 You can hear it below in the first song released from the album, Old L.A.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Makes us want to take a drive down the 101 to that “pretty fair place to be.”<\/p>\n