Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti

For "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti" (Joan Baez, Ennio Morricone), see From Every Stage.

Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti is a set of ballad songs, written and performed by Woody Guthrie, related to the trial, conviction and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The series was commissioned by Moe Asch in 1945 and recorded in 1946 and 1947. Guthrie never completed the project and was unsatisfied by the result.^[1] The project was released later in its abandoned form by Asch.

Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti
Studio album by Woody Guthrie
Released	1960
Recorded	1946–1947
Genre	Folk
Label	Folkways Records
Producer	Moe Asch

Track listing

1. "The Flood and the Storm"
2. "I Just Want to Sing Your Name"
3. "Old Judge Thayer"
4. "Red Wine"
5. "Root Hog and Die"
6. "Suassos Lane"
7. "Two Good Men"
8. "Vanzetti's Letter"
9. "Vanzetti's Rock"
10. "We Welcome to Heaven"
11. "You Souls of Boston"

An unreleased track, "Sacco's Letters to His Son" was recorded by Pete Seeger for the project.

References

1. Klein, Joe Woody Guthrie: A Life, 1988, pp. 313–314.

Further reading

• Cosco, Joseph P. (2011). "'I Just Want to Sing Your Name': Woody Guthrie's Struggles with Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti". Italian American Review. 1 (1): 35–51. doi:10.5406/italamerrevi.1.1.0035. ISSN 0535-9120. JSTOR 10.5406/italamerrevi.1.1.0035. S2CID 246620194.