2020 release. In This Land Sings, Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). Traveling the backroads of America from coast to coast with a guitar and harmonica, Woody Guthrie performed folk songs of love, wandering and social justice during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Daugherty has composed his own original songs and instrumental interludes that give haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to political, social and environmental themes from Guthrie's era. Under the baton of Grammy Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller, the Albany Symphony's new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, joined by soprano Annika Socolofsky and baritone John Daugherty, give a poignant and rousing performance.

Tracklist:

Overture
The Ghost and Will of Joe Hill
Perpetual Motion Man
Marfa Lights
Hear the Dust Blow
Graceland
Forbidden Fruit
Hot Air
Bread and Roses 1
This Land Sings 1
Silver Bullet 1
This Trombone Kills Fascists 1
Don't Sing Me a Love Song 1
My Heart Is Burning 1
I'm Gonna Walk That Lonesome Valley 1
Mermaid Avenue 1
Wayfaring Stranger [900 Miles]

UPC: 636943988923
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 5.8.20
Format: CD

Daugherty / Socolofsky / Miller - This Land Sings (CD)