~From Green Man Review:
"Some of today's best-known carriers of Woody Guthrie's flame performed a short set of Guthrie songs, called Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway, at the 2006 MerleFest in Asheville, North Carolina. The six songs are presented in this program, introduced by narration cribbed from Woody's various writings.
Main names on the program were Jimmy Lafave, Eliza Gilkyson, Slaid Cleaves and Woody's granddaughter (Arlo's daughter) Sarah Lee Guthrie and her partner Johnny Irion. They perform some of Guthrie's best-known songs, including "Do Re Mi," "I Ain't Got No Home," "Union Maid" -- with its chorus of "You can't scare me I'm sticking to the union," -- and "Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)." Eliza Gilkyson takes the lead on "Peace Call," which was on her 2004 release, Land of Milk and Honey. This song appeared in an obscure Guthrie songbook but was never recorded until Gilkyson's version. Then, everybody joins in on the obligatory finale, "This Land Is Your Land." They start it out slow, with everybody taking a turn on the verses, even some of the more obscure ones, and then speed it up into a bluegrass-style workout for the finish. A bunch of other MerleFest regulars join in as well, including Pete Seeger, Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, David Bromberg, Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson, Nora Guthrie and others."
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