New Multitudes - Woodie Guthrie tribute album by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Will Johnson from Centro-matic and Varnaline’s Anders Parker
Set to coincide with the centennial celebration of Woody Guthrie’s birth year, New Multitudes will be released February 27 on Rounder Records as a 12 track release and a 23 track deluxe, limited edition.The limited edition features original Guthrie lyric sheets, the 12 track release, and 11 additional compositions recorded by Farrar and Parker.The album will also be available on vinyl.
Under the invitation of Nora Guthrie, Woody’s daughter, to tour the Guthrie archives, each of the four songwriters were offered the chance to plumb and mine the plethora of notebooks, scratch pads, napkins, etc. for anything that might inspire them to lend their voices and give the words new life.
The New Multitudes are Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron) and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk).