Ani DiFranco, Nellie McKay on new Woody Guthrie tribute

Folk legend Woody Guthrie would have celebrated his 100th birthday in July 2012, so plans are afoot to commemorate the hugely influential musician with a series of releases. The first, arriving September 26, is Note Of Hope: A Celebration Of Woody Guthrie, which features all-new music from the likes of Ani DiFranco, Nellie McKay and Madeleine Peyroux adapted from unpublished and ‘lost’ lyrics by the great man himself. Another compilation made in a similar fashion is in the works for January 2012, while the Natalie Merchant-featuring Billy Bragg and Wilco collaborations Mermaid Avenue (1998) and Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 (2000), both based on Guthrie lyrics, will be reissued as a fancy boxset with potential for some unreleased material to be included.

The Note Of Hope tracklist runs as follows:

01 Van Dyke Parks, ‘The Note Of Hope’
02 Madeleine Peyroux, ‘Wild Card In The Hole’
03 Tom Morello, ‘Ease My Revolutionary Mind’
04 Lou Reed, ‘The Debt I Owe’
05 Michael Franti, ‘Union Love Juice’
06 Kurt Elling, ‘Peace Pin Boogie’
07 Ani DiFranco, ‘Voice’
08 Studs Terkel, ‘I Heard A Man Talking’
09 Nellie McKay, ‘Old Folks’
10 Chris Whitley, ‘On The High Lonesome’
11 Pete Seeger & Tony Trischka, ‘There’s A Feeling In Music’
12 Jackson Browne, ‘You Know The Night’

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