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In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration commissioned Guthrie to write songs to help promote the construction of dams along the Columbia River. Now, 75 years later, artists with ties to the Pacific Northwest have recorded this album of those songs including nine that have never been recorded. Peter Buck, Tony Furtado, David Grisman, John Moen, Chris Funk and others do "Pastures of Plenty," "The Talkin’ Blues," "Hard Travelin’," "Eleckatricity and All," "Roll On Columbia, Roll On," "New Found Land," "Ballad of the Great Grand Coulee (The Grand Coulee Dam)" and more. 28 songs, 44-page booklet! Smithsonian Folkways.