VIGILANTE MAN

Created on 02/05/2006
Latest update on 08/12/2021

Artist: Woody Guthrie
Author: Woody Guthrie
Label: RCA
Year: 1940

On Dust Bowl Ballads, an album of six 78's (see also: Do Re Mi). Inspired by film Grapes Of Wrath and by his own experience entertaining fruit picking dust bowl refugees in California. Using the melody of Sad And Lonesome Day (Carter Family). See also See That My Grave Is Kept Clean.

Covers:

1971:

Ry Cooder

1973:

Nazareth

1973:

Merry Airbrakes [with young Watermelon Slim]

1988:

Bruce Springsteen

1990:

Hindu Love Gods [Warren Zevon + 3 R.E.M.'s]

2007:

Ralph McTell

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