My Morning Jacket’s Jim James Joins Supergroup for Woody Guthrie Tribute Album
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 |
Written by Rob Sleigh
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My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James and his Monsters of Folk bandmate Will Johnson have joined forces with members of the band Gob Iron to form a new supergroup for a Woody Guthrie tribute album. ‘New Multitudes’, which is due for release on 27th February, celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the legendary folk singer’s birth and features 12 of his previously-unrecorded songs.
Will Johnson with Gob Iron’s Jay Farrar and Anders Parker will be performing songs from ‘New Multitudes’ at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday 25th January as part of the city’s Celtic Connections festival. Support comes from Woody Guthrie’s granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie.
A limited Deluxe Edition of ‘New Multitudes’ is also due for release on 27th February and will feature an additional 11 songs performed by Farrar and Parker. Album track ‘Old LA’ is available to listen to below.
Speaking about ‘New Multitudes’, Guthrie’s daughter Nora said: “These guys worked on an amazing group of lyrics. Much of it was culled from Woody’s times in LA. Lyric wise, it’s a part of the story that is still mostly unknown. From Woody’s experiences on LA’s skid row to his later years in Topanga Canyon, they are uniquely intimate, and relate two distinctly emotional periods in his life.”
Farrar Johnson Parker Yames ‘Old LA’
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