New Multitudes

[kotchishm]

BH Posted something about this back in 2009 but now there is actually a release month for it

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/08/jay-farrar-jim-james-woody-guthrie-tribute-mermaid-avenue-box-set-coming-soon/

Next year marks what would be the 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie, and his daughter Norah Guthrie is readying a hell of a party. Check our our interviews with Nora and bassist Rob Wasserman, who produced the upcoming Note Of Hope album, which finds artists like Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello and Ani DiFranco turning Woody's unpublished writings into song.

Nora tipped us off to the new Woody Guthrie 100 web site, which has the release dates for several amazing-sounding Guthrie related projects, and we just had to share.

New Multitudes, a collaborative effort between Jay Farrar, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Will Johnson and Anders Parker, will feature more unpublished Guthrie writings set to music. Farrar previously worked with Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard to turn passages from Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur into song on 2009′s One Fast Move Or I'm Gone.

The Mermaid Avenue box set will compile the first two Billy Bragg and Wilco albums, as well as a third disc of outtakes and the documentary Man In The Sand.

Check out the full details below:

Recordings:


ROB WASSERMAN with Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Kurt Elling, Ani Difranco, Studs Terkel, Nellie McKay, Chris Whitley, Pete Seeger, Tony Trischka, and Jackson Browne

Album title: NOTE OF HOPE
Release date: September 27,2011
Record label: 429 Records

JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, & YIM YAMES

Album title: NEW MULTITUDES
Release date: January 2012
Record label: Rounder Records

WOODY GUTHRIE

Album title: THE COMPLETE WOODY GUTHRIE
Release date: January 2012
Record label: Smithsonian Folkways Records

BILLY BRAGG & WILCO

Album title: MERMAID AVENUE Deluxe Box Set
Release date: March, 2012
Record label: Nonesuch Records

WOODY GUTHRIE with Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Mary Guthrie Boyle, Sonny Terry, Josh White, Marjorie Guthrie, Leadbelly, Tiny Robinson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Dylan, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, Mike and Ruthy, Lowry Hamner, Arlo Guthrie and others

Narrated by Nora Guthrie
Album title: MY NAME IS NEW YORK
Release date: May 2012
Record label: Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.

[e_wind]

very cool. All of it sounds awesome.

[YouAre_GivenToFly]

Excellent... I'm a big fan of the Farrar/Gibbard album, and of course I love the Mermaid Ave releases.

[APR]

I picked up a card at one of the merch tables near will call at MSG last night.  It looked like a promo for three free Delta Spirit songs from  their album coming in March.  But I just looked at the back of the card........ and it's a promo for a New Multitudes song.  I  just downloaded it, and it's an outstanding song!  I wasn't familiar with anyone except Yim, but I plan to get familiar with the other ones soon.

You need an access code to get the songs.  Each card has an individual access code, but I grabbed two cards.  If anyone wants to PM me I can give the website and the extra access code as I don't need it.  I used my access code and doubt it can be used again.

Anyway, sorry if this is old news but the card says New Multitudes will be out in Feb.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Ill take it!

[johnnYYac]

From our pals at Newport Folk...

http://www.newportfolkfest.net/behind-the-walls-2012-episode-3-new-multitudes

[GO4IT]

From our pals at Newport Folk...

http://www.newportfolkfest.net/behind-the-walls-2012-episode-3-new-multitudes

Wow!
Where was this shot - looks like in a Newport Mansion?
Loved their set last year.

[johnnYYac]

Our Ms. Penny Lane reports from the field tonight, on assignment where Anthony D'Amato opened for Joe Fletcher, including this cover of Jim's Revolutionary Mind from New Multitudes.

Revolutionary Mind - Anthony D'Amato 3/1/13 part 1

Revolutionary Mind - Anthony D'Amato 3/1/13 part 2

[Penny Lane]

Thanks, John. That was taken at the Bowery Electric.  I was pretty stoked to see that and he talked a little about Jim before he played it. If you haven't heard of Anthony D'Amato, he was apparently a late addition to the Newport Folk Fest last year and is really talented, sort of a young Ryan Adams.

here's a Paste Mag interview:http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/01/best-of-whats-next-anthony-damato.html

He's from Jersey and surprise, his thesis at Princeton was "Deliver Me From Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen & The Literature of American Alienation."   

[Tired Eyes]

Thanks to Penny and Yac for getting this on the forum.  That was exciting when he did this song last night.
I was wearing my MMJ shirt from Port Chester at the show.

[johnnYYac]

Released two years ago today...

[APR]

Released two years ago today...

Man time flies.  I remember their show like it was yesterday.

[rincon2]

Maybe time to revisit this video. Note how Jim looks towards the camera and waves. Not to me, but to Ms Yvon.
http://youtu.be/x32GbNV-O3Q

[johnnYYac]

Maybe time to revisit this video. Note how Jim looks towards the camera and waves. Not to me, but to Ms Yvon.
http://youtu.be/x32GbNV-O3Q

of course