{"id":480031,"date":"2018-12-18T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770974"},"modified":"2018-12-18T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:20:19","slug":"hear-woody-guthries-lost-recording-of-hoodoo-voodoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-woody-guthries-lost-recording-of-hoodoo-voodoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Woody Guthrie\u2019s Lost Recording of \u2018Hoodoo Voodoo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_6687313b.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">A previously unreleased recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/woody-guthrie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_woody-guthrie\" data-tag=\"woody-guthrie\">Woody Guthrie<\/a> performing \u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d is available after being discovered at the Shel Silverstein Archive<em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/music\/news\/wilco-woody-guthrie-tape-discovery-mermaid-avenue-1203092307\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d was thought to be one of the myriad unfinished songs Guthrie wrote lyrics for but never put to music or recorded. The authenticity of the recording was verified by the Woody Guthrie Archive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lost version of \u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d features Guthrie alongside his frequent collaborators, Ramblin\u2019 Jack Elliott and Sonny Terry, who likely taped the song as part of a 1954 session for Folkways Records\u2019 Moses Asch. It\u2019s believed that the trio recorded the tune after a bit of drinking, which likely explains the delightfully slapdash performance as Guthrie\u2019s goofy lyrics tumble alongside a plucky guitar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d was notably among the various unrecorded Guthrie songs that Wilco and Billy Bragg put to music on their 1998 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/mermaid-avenue-105436\/\"><em>Mermaid Avenue<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-woody-guthrie-lost-recording-hoodoo-voodoo-770974\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously unreleased recording of Woody Guthrie performing \u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d is available after being discovered at the Shel Silverstein Archive, Variety reports. \u201cHoodoo Voodoo\u201d was thought to be one of the myriad unfinished songs Guthrie wrote lyrics for but never put to music or recorded. The authenticity of the recording was verified by the Woody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 14:31:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}