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A colossal set from a colossal figure in American folk: a limited-edition box containing Woody Guthrie’s complete Library of Congress recordings, released in their entirety for the first time. Shall we start with the vinyl? On a 10" 78 RPM record you’ll find Bob Dylan performing his hero’s song "VD City," with a previously unreleased recording of Woody singing "The Greatest Thing That Man Has Ever Done" on side two. Then let’s move on to the texts. A 60-page booklet full of unseen photographs and unpublished Guthrie drawings joins a PDF of a 258-page book containing transcriptions of all the songs and spoken material. On the DVD "Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie & the Bonneville Power Administration," which chronicles the 30-day contract that Woody had as a temporary worker for Bonneville in 1941. And the main event: all his Library of Congress and BPA recordings plus war-effort songs, the VD song demos and the "Lonesome Traveler" radio drama. Among the scores of political, traditional and children’s songs and ballads and improvised works you’ll encounter along this journey: "The Sinking of the Reuben James," "Grand Coulee Dam," "Pastures of Plenty," "Oregon Trail," "Hard Ain’t It Hard," "Stagger Lee," "Stewball," "Do Re Mi," "Jimmie Rodgers," "Talking Dust Bowl," "Going down the Road," "Worried Man Blues," "Lonesome Valley," "The Jolly Banker," "Billy the Kid," "Hard Times," "The End of the World," "The Midnight Special," "Greenback Dollar," "Beaumont Rag," "Lost Train," "Boll Weevil" and more threads that Woody sewed into the fabric of America and its music! Rounder.