think I should enter this blogging contest about my ol' favorite, Woody Guthrie?

On August 25, Rounder Records released a four-disc box set of rare Woody Guthrie recordings titled My Dusty Road. It's a 54-track collection, including some songs which have never been released before, and the sound quality is impeccable. There's a disc of Woody's work songs, a disc of protest tunes, a disc of his greatest hits, and one with Sonny Terry and Cisco Houston, which comes off like an impromptu jam session among friends. It's a remarkable set of recordings, and is accompanied by a book telling the story of these recordings, along with a handful of Woody's drawings.

We've teamed up with Rounder Records to give away a copy of My Dusty Road to one lucky blogger. Five runners up will receive a copy of the book. All you have to do to enter is write a blog post about how you think Woody Guthrie has influenced modern music. To inspire you, I'll attach the full track listing after the rules below. Feel free to blog about a specific song, or cast a wider net.

RULES: All entries must be created as blog posts on this site - links to your personal blog or comments on this post will not be considered as entries. To create a blog on this site, log in and choose "blog" from the Quick Add drop-down menu on the right side of the page. Please include "Woody Guthrie" in the title of your blog post. The contest will close at 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, Sep 15, with winners announced the following day. Now for the full track listing:

WOODY'S GREATEST HITS
1 This Land Is Your Land
2 Going Down the Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way)
3 Talking Sailor
4 Philadelphia Lawyer
5 Hard Travelin'
6 Jesus Christ
7 The Sinking of the Reuben James
8 Pretty Boy Floyd
9 Grand Coulee Dam
10 Nine Hundred Miles
11 Going Down the Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way) 2
12 My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky)
13 Bad Repetation

WOODY'S ROOTS
1 Poor Boy
2 Worried Man Blues
3 A Picture From Life's Other Side
4 Buffalo Skinners
5 Hard Ain't It Hard
6 Stewball
7 Stackolee
8 Gypsy Davy
9 Little Darling Pal of Mine
10 What Did the Deep Sea Say?
11 Chisholm Trail
12 Put My Little Shoes Away
13 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
14 John Henry

WOODY THE AGITATOR
1 I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union)
2 Hangnot, Slipnot
3 Gonna Roll the Union On
4 The Ludlow Massacre
5 Sally Don't You Grieve
6 Harriet Tubman's Ballad part 1
7 Harriet Tubman's Ballad part 2
8 Tear the Facists Down
9 When The Yanks Go Marching In
10 You Can Hear My Whistle Blow
11 Union Burying Ground
12 You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union

WOODY, CISCO & SONNY
1 Train Breakdown
2 Do You Ever Think Of Me (aka At My Window)
3 Guitar Rag
4 Square Dance Medley
5 Guitar Breakdown
6 Raincrow Bill
7 Ain't Nobody's Business
8 Stepstone
9 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
10 Bile Them Cabbage Down
11 Danville Girl
12 Guitar Blues
13 Brown's Ferry Blues
14 More Pretty Girls Than One
15 Sonny's Flight
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