Woody Guthrie discography
's published recordings are culled from a series of recording sessions in the 1940s and 1950s. At the time they were recorded they were not set down for a particular album, so are found over several albums not necessarily in chronological order. The more detailed section on recording sessions lists the song by recording date.
Selected published discography
Recording sessions
The list here is organized by recording session and is mostly sourced from the discography put together by Dr. Guy Lodgson in 1990-1991 at the Smithsonian Institution as it appears in the book "Hard Travelin' The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie".- Note: A blank cell below a date indicate that the date is repeated on that row.
1940, Library Of Congress, Washington, D.C., sessions with Alan Lomax
American Studio of the Air, Radio Show
1940, RCA Victor Sessions, Dust Bowl Ballads
- These recording were released on the record Talking Dust Bowl on Folkways Records in 1950 by Moe Asch, but without RCA's licences.
1941, Bonneville Power Administration, The Columbia River Songs
The masters of this session were lost, but a collection of 6 discs was collected from BPA employee copies from the time. Most were eventually released on Rounder Records Woody Guthrie, Columbia River Collection C1036 in 1987. The 6 discs are housed in the National Archives, Washington D.C.. The catalogue numbers here relate to National Archive listings.| Title | Catalogue No. | Recording Date | Notes / Instrument |
| Pastures of Plenty | 305.01 | May 1941 | Vocals / Guitar |
| The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done | 305.01 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Roll Columbia, Roll | 305.01 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Washington Talkin' Blues | 305.02 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done | 305.02 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Ramblin' Blues | 305.03 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| It Takes a Married Man to Sing A Worried Song | 305.03 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Song of the Grand Coulee Dam | 305.03 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Roll On, Columbia | 305.04 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| The Grand Coulee Dam | 305.04 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Jackhammer Blues | 305.05 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| The Grand Coulee Dam | 305.05 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Columbia Waters | 305.05 | Vocals / Guitar | |
| Talking Columbia Blues | 305.05 | Vocals / Guitar |
Unissued LOC Recordings: Home Disc Recordings & 1941 Almanac Singers
Series of Discs for the Library of Congress, recorded by the Almanac Singers, only those written by or featuring Woody Guthrie are included here. Notes are Woody's parts.| Title | Catalogue No. | Recording Date | Notes / Instrument |
| Round and Round Hitler's Grave | 6100-B | February 1942 | Guitar |
| Hulaballobalay | 6101-A | Guitar | |
| Taking it Easy | 6101-B | Guitar | |
| Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done | 6102-B | Guitar / Vocals | |
| High Cost of Living | 6103-A | Guitar | |
| Sinking of the Ruben James | 6103-B | Guitar | |
| Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad | 6105-A | Guitar | |
| Pretty Boy Floyd | 4793-A | August 1941 | Vocals |
Keynote Recordings
- Songs that have been released on Songs for Political Action, Bear Family Records BCD 15270
General Records
The Martins and the Coys: A Contemporary Folk Tale
Recorded by Decca Records in March 1944, and written by Elizabeth Lomax. Alan Lomax shopped this around but no stations were interested, eventually it was sold the BBC.The recordings included Woody as well as several members of the Almanac singers.
| Title | Catalogue No. | Recording Date | Notes / Instrument |
| You Better Get Ready | March 1944 | Vocal / Guitar w/Sonny Terry on Harmonica | |
| You Fascists Are Bound to Lose | Vocal / Guitar w/Sonny Terry on Harmonica | ||
| Bound for the Mountains | Group Vocals | ||
| Run Boys Run | |||
| Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair | |||
| On Top of Old Smokey | |||
| Gonna Take Everybody | |||
| When We March Into Berlin | |||
| How Many Biscuts Can You Eat? | |||
| Smokey Mountain Girls | |||
| Turtle Dove | |||
| Round and Round Hitler's Grave | |||
| The Martins and the Coys |
1944 & 1945, The Asch Recordings
Possibly Guthrie's most famous recordings, conducted over a series of days by Moses "Moe" Asch in 1944 and 1945. They were issued on a variety of labels under Asch, Asch-Stinson, Asch-Signature-Stinson, Disc, Folkways and Verve/Folkways.| Title | Catalogue No. | Recording Date | Notes / Instrument |
| Hard Ain't It Hard | LM-1 | April 16, 1944 | |
| More Pretty Girls Than One | LM-2 | ||
| Golden Vanity | MA 1 | April 19, 1944 | Recordings on this date w/ Cisco Houston |
| When the Yanks Go Marching In | MA 2 | ||
| So Long, It's Been Good to Know You | MA3 | ||
| Dollar Down Dollar a Week | MA4 | ||
| Hen Cackle | MA5 | ||
| I Ain't Got Nobody | MA6 | ||
| Ida Red | MA7 | ||
| Columbus Stockade | MA8 | ||
| Whistle Blowing | MA9 | ||
| John Henry | MA10 | ||
| Hammer Ring | MA11 | ||
| Muleskinner Blues | MA12 | ||
| What are We Waiting On | LM-2 | ||
| More Pretty Girls Than One | MA13 | ||
| Ship in the Sky | MA14 | ||
| The Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done | MA15 | ||
| Stewball | MA16 | ||
| Grand Coulee Dam | MA17 | ||
| Talking Sailor | MA18 | ||
| Talking Sailor | MA19 | ||
| Talking Sailor | MA20 | ||
| New York Town | MA21 | ||
| Talking Sailor | MA22 | ||
| Reckless Talk | MA23 | ||
| Reckless Talk | MA24 | ||
| Last Nickel Blues | MA25 | ||
| Guitar Rag | MA26 | ||
| Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet | MA27 | ||
| Brown Eyes | MA28 | ||
| Chisholm Trail | MA29 | ||
| Sowing on the Mountains | MA30 | ||
| Sowing on the Mountains | MA31 | ||
| Right Now | MA32 | ||
| Train-Harmonica | MA33 | ||
| Sally Don't You Grieve | MA34 | ||
| Take a Wiff on Me | MA35 | ||
| Philadelphia Lawyer | MA36 | ||
| Kissing On | MA37 | ||
| Little Darling | MA38 | ||
| Baltimore to Washington | MA39 | ||
| Poor Boy | MA40 | ||
| Poor Boy | MA41 | ||
| Ain't Nobody's Business | MA42 | ||
| Take Me Back Babe | MA43 | ||
| Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad | MA44 | ||
| Bed on the Floor | MA45 | ||
| One Big Union | MA46 | ||
| Worried Man Blues | MA47 | ||
| What Did the Deep Say? | MA48 | ||
| Foggy Mountain Top | MA49 | ||
| 21 Years | MA50 | ||
| Roving Gambler | MA51 | ||
| Cindy | MA52 | ||
| Into Season | MA53 | ||
| Red River Valley | MA55 | ||
| Dead or Alive | MA56 | ||
| Pretty Boy | MA57 | ||
| John Hardy | MA58 | ||
| Bad Lee Brown | MA59 | ||
| Whistle Blowing | MA66 | ||
| Billy The Kid | MA67 | ||
| "Stagger Lee" | MA68 | ||
| Down Yonder | 674 | April 20, 1944 | |
| Guitar Blues | 675 | ||
| Harmonica Breakdown | 676 | ||
| Fox Chase | 677 | ||
| Train | 678 | ||
| Lost John | 679 | ||
| Pretty Baby | 680 | ||
| Old Dog a Bone | 681 | ||
| "Turkey in the Straw" | 687 | ||
| Give Me That Old Time Religion | 688 | ||
| Glory | 689 | ||
| Hard Time Blues | 690 | ||
| Bus Blues | 691 | ||
| Devilish Mary | 692 | ||
| Cripple Creek | 693 | ||
| Sandy Land | 694 | ||
| Old Dan Tucker | 695 | April 24, 1944 | |
| Bile Them Cabbage Down | 696 | ||
| Old Joe Clark | 697 | ||
| Buffalo Girls | 698 | ||
| Rain Crow Bill | 699 | ||
| Skip to my Lou | 700 | ||
| Lonesome Train | 701, 702 | ||
| Blues, Harmonica Breakdown | 703, 704 | ||
| Harmonica Rag | 705,706 | ||
| Crawdad Hole | 707 | ||
| Bury Me Beneath the Willow | 708 | ||
| I Ride an Old Paint | 709 | ||
| Blue Eyes | 710 | ||
| Going Down the Road Feeling Bad | 711 | ||
| Old Dog a Bone | 712 | ||
| Having Fun | 713 | ||
| Blues | 714 | ||
| Talking Fishing Blues | MA75 | April 25, 1944 | |
| Talking Sailor | MA76 | ||
| Union Burial Ground | MA77 | ||
| Jesse James | MA78 | ||
| Rangers Command | MA79 | ||
| Sinking of the Ruben James | MA80 | ||
| Put My Little Shoes Away | MA81 | ||
| Picture From Life's Other Side | MA82 | ||
| Will You Miss Me | MA83 | ||
| Bed on the Floor | MA84 | ||
| 900 Miles | MA85 | ||
| Sourwood Mountain | MA86 | ||
| Hoecake Baking | MA87 | ||
| Ezekiel Saw the Wheel | MA88 | ||
| Little Darling | MA89 | ||
| Lonesome Day | MA90 | ||
| Cumberland Gap | MA91 | ||
| Fiddling Piece | MA92 | ||
| "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" | MA93 | ||
| Step Stone | MA94 | ||
| "House of the Rising Sun" | MA96 | ||
| Browns Ferry Blues | MA98 | ||
| What Would You Give in Exchange For Your Soul? | MA99 | ||
| When That Great Ship Went Down | MA99-1 | ||
| Dust Bowl | MA100 | ||
| Guitar Rag | MA101 | ||
| I Ain't Got Nobody | MA102 | ||
| Going Down This Road Feeling Bad | MA103 | ||
| Polly Wolly Doodle | MA104 | ||
| Guitar Rag | 1230 | ||
| Blowin' Down This Old Dusty Road | 1231 | ||
| Hey Lolly Lolly | MA105 | ||
| Budded Roses | MA106 | ||
| "House of the Rising Sun" | MA107 | ||
| I Don't Feel at Home in the Bowery | MA108 | ||
| Hobo's Lullaby | MA109 | ||
| Froggy Went a Courtin' | MA110 | ||
| Bad Reputation | MA111 | ||
| Snow Deer | MA112 | ||
| Ladies Auxiliary | MA113 | ||
| "This Land Is Your Land" | MA114 | ||
| Hang Knot | MA115 | ||
| Breakdown | MA116 | ||
| Go Tell Aunt Rhody | MA117 | ||
| Union Going to Roll | MA118 | ||
| Who Broke the Lock on the Hen House Door | MA119 | ||
| What Did the Deep Sea Say | MA120 | ||
| Strawberry Roan | MA121-1 | ||
| When the Yanks Go Marching in | MA122-1 | ||
| Bed on the Floor | MA123-1 | ||
| We Shall Be Free | MA124-1 | ||
| Right Now | MA125-1 | ||
| Jackhammer John | MA126-1 | ||
| Woody | MA127-1,127-2 | ||
| Keep Your Skillit Good and Greasy | MA129-1 | ||
| Home | MA130-1 | ||
| Lost You | MA131 | ||
| Slip Knot | MA134 | ||
| Jesus Christ | MA135 | ||
| Hobo Bill | MA136 | ||
| Little Black Train | MA137 | ||
| Cannon Ball | MA138 | ||
| Gypsy Davy | MA139 | ||
| Bile Them Cabbage Down | MA140 | ||
| Woody | MA1240 | May 8, 1944 | |
| Get Along Little Dogies | 860 | March 1, 1945 | |
| Waltz | 861,862 | ||
| Union Breakdown | 863 | ||
| Cackling Hen | 864 | ||
| Chisholm Trail | 865 | ||
| Bed on Your Floor | 866 | ||
| Rye Whiskey | 867 | ||
| Old Joe Clark | 868 | March 23, 1945 | |
| Long Way to France | 869 | ||
| Woody Blues | 870 | ||
| Down Yonder | 871 | ||
| Gal I Left Behind | 872 | ||
| Mean Talking Blues | 900 | May 24, 1945 | |
| "1913 Massacre" | 901 | ||
| Ludlow Massacre | 902 | ||
| Buffalo Skinners | 903 | ||
| Harriet Tubman | 904,905 |
Many recordings have unknown session dates. These are included in a list available at the United States Library of Congress titled "Surviving Recordings in the Smithsonian Folklife Archive Made by Woody Guthrie for Moses Asch". Moe Asch says Woody's kids song were recorded sometime in early 1947 and the Sacco and Vanzetti ballads were recorded January 1947.