Various Artists - Home In This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads (Various Artists) (CD) - CD

Details: 2021 release, a reimagined version of American folk icon Woody Guthrie's groundbreaking 1940 album, Dust Bowl Ballads. Curated by Grammy Award-winning music supervisor and producer Randall Poster, Home In This World arrives with the endorsement of the Woody Guthrie Estate. Cited as one of the first concept albums ever, Dust Bowl Ballads' 14 tracks ring true nearly four generations later as America faces a different kind of depression and looming climate crisis. Now celebrating it's 81st anniversary, the record has been reimagined for a new era by a cross-genre collective of artists. Poster has assembled an all-star cast of everyone from Grammy Award winners Lee Ann Womack and John Paul White to grunge poet laureate Mark Lanegan and rising country and Americana star Lillie Mae, acclaimed husband-and-wife folk duo Shovels & Rope, virtuosic mandolinist Chris Thile, celebrated Canadian cowboy Colter Wall, bluegrass phenomenon Watkins Family Hour, and indie stalwarts Waxahatchee.