Shovels & Rope
Lost Dog Street Band
Watkins Family Hour
John Paul White
Lee Ann Womack
Colter Wall
Waxahatchee
Chris Thile
Lillie Mae
The Felice Brothers
The Secret Sisters
Swamp Dogg
Back in Nineteen Twenty-Seven
I had a little farm that I called that heaven
Well, the prices up and the rain come down
And I hauled my crops all into town
I got the money, bought clothes and groceries
Fed the kids and raised a family
Well the rain quit and the wind got high
And the black ol' dust storm filled the sky
And I swapped my farm for a Ford machine
And I poured it full of this gas-i-line
I started, rockin' an' a-rollin'
Over the mountains, out towards the old Peach Bowl
Way up yonder on a mountain road
I had a hot motor and a heavy load
Got it goin' pretty fast, it wasn't even stoppin'
And bouncin' up and down, like popcorn poppin'
I had a breakdown, sort of a nervous breakdown of some kind
There was a feller there, a mechanic feller
Said it was en-gine trouble
Way up yonder on a mountain curve
Way up yonder in the piney wood
I give that rollin' Ford a shove
And was gonna coast as far as I could
Commence coastin', pickin' up speed
It was a hairpin turn, I didn't make it
Man alive, I'm a-tellin' you
And the fiddles and the guitars really flew
And that Ford took off like a flying squirrel
And it flew halfway around the world
Scattered wives and children
All over the side of that mountain
We got out to the West Coast broke
So dad-gum hungry I thought I'd croak
So I bummed up a spud or two
And my wife fixed up a tater stew
We poured the kids full of it
Mighty thin stew, though
You could read a magazine right through it
Well I always figured
If it'd been just a little bit thinner
Some of these here politicians
Coulda seen through it
Talking Dust Bowl Blues was written by Woody Guthrie.
Talking Dust Bowl Blues was produced by Randall Poster.