Home recordings by the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Songwriters Hall of Famer, International Folk Music Award Lifetime Achievement honoree, and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner Woody Guthrie will be released in the two-volume landmark collection Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2 on one CD, LP, digital download, and streaming release via Shamus Records, label subsidiary of TRO Essex Music Group, Woody’s publisher, on August 14, 2025. This collection contains 22 previously unreleased recordings, including thirteen Guthrie songs not heard on any of his other recordings as well as three spoken word tracks. These rare recordings include ‘This Land Is Your Land’, featuring new verses. The collection also includes previously unheard home recordings of ‘Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done’, ‘Pastures Of Plenty’, and ‘Jesus Christ’. These recently restored analogue tapes will be released alongside previously unpublished family photographs, artwork, and lyric sheets.
Already, outlets such as Pitchfork, Smithsonian Magazine, Consequence, Stereogum, People, and Rolling Stone, and beyond have covered the highly anticipated release. The New York Times ran a feature, calling the collection a “treasure trove.”
On Friday, Shamus Records released the bolstering anti-fascist song ‘I’m A Child Ta Fight’ as a single.
In audio found on these original home tapes, Guthrie himself explains: “I just want to tell you fellers that I’m awful glad sending this batch of songs to you. This sounds like about the best tape I made so far… I was here at home watching the kids by myself. So the kids tapes I’m sending you, the ones with me and the kids on them, I don’t want you sending them back or anything like that. I just want you to keep them and play them and see the place from whence all good folk songs breed and spring.”
On July 14, Woody’s only known recording of his original song ‘Deportee (Woody’s Home Tape)’ was released as a single. ‘Deportee (Woody’s Home Tape)’, (also known as ‘Plane Wreck At Los Gatos’) was originally written in 1948 in response to a New York Times article about a plane crash in Los Gatos Canyon, California that killed 32 people, including 28 migrant farm workers.
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