1964 Folkways Records Reissue

Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. Victor eventually let the original sets go out of print. Guthrie wrote to the label asking for a reissue in LP format and got a negative response. Guthrie then authorized Folkways Records to copy the discs and, in October 1950, put out its own 10" LP version, which was called Talking Dust Bowl. RCA protested, but, in the face of Guthrie's go-ahead, backed off, giving Folkways tacit permission to do a second reissue as a 12" LP. The Folkways reissue re-creates the contents of the two original releases of 78s in the same running order, but combines the two parts of "Tom Joad" into one track.