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Album Info
Release Date: 2009-09-15Label: Inside Recordings
Joel Rafael has been a featured performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival since its inception in 1998. Considered a natural and pre-eminent interpreter of Guthrie's music, he has released two albums honoring Guthrie's song. The Songs of Woody Guthrie, Volume 1 and Volume 2, together encompass Rafael's graceful and authentic takes on twenty-four Guthrie - and two Guthrie-inspired - compositions. Rolling Stone, in its review of Woodyboye, noted, "Don't miss the moving version of Guthrie's 'Stepstone,' which finds Rafael sharing vocal duties with Jackson Browne & Arlo Guthrie.