Woody's Rag
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
This was originally worked out by Woody Guthrie when The Almanac Singers<br> were together. The original title was "The Almanac Rag". Later on,<br> Pete Seeger started calling it "Woody's Rag".<br> This is really just pattern noodling in D, a tune that almost plays<br> itself.<br> Pete Seeger recorded in his Goofing-Off Suite.<br> I heard a recording long ago of someone (maybe Woody, maybe Pete) playing<br> this and picked it up by ear. Later I found it in Seeger's The Bells of<br> Rhymney book (1964).<br> Other songs by Woody Guthrie in this section are:<br> "Gypsy Davy"<br> "Hard Travelin"<br> "Hard, Ain't It Hard"<br> "Pastures of Plenty"<br> "The Philadelphia Lawyer"<br> "The Reuben James"<br> "So Long It's Been Good to Know You"<br> "Union Maid"<br> This is a later development of the post-ragtime "rags" that fiddlers and<br> mandolin players developed in the early 20th century using the syncopated<br> rhythms of the ragtime tradition.<br> Other rags/blues tunes in this collections are:<br> Cherry River Rag<br> Colored Aristocracy<br> Dora Dean<br> Old Jackson Stomp<br> Pig Ankle Rag<br> Ragtime Annie<br> Stone's Rag<br> - all in the Tunes section and<br> East Tennessee Blues<br> Eli Greens Cakewalk<br> Hawkin's Rag<br> Horace Hanesworth<br> Sister Kate<br> Woody's Rag<br> - in the Legacies section.<br>
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