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''New Multitudes'' is a Woody Guthrie tribute album performed by Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Jim James to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Guthrie's birth, released through Rounder Records on February 28, 2012. The project was initiated by Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie to have Farrar add music to her father's lyrics〔—specifically, his earliest songwriting years in Los Angeles.〔 Over the course of several years, he invited the others to collaborate and recorded at a variety of locations across the United States. Each artist wrote music to lyrics that inspired him and presented it to the collaborators for recording. The result is an album with diverse musical genres that has garnered positive reviews from critics for its varied styles and instrumentation. The quartet promoted the album with a small promotional tour that took them to record stores, radio programs, theaters, and folk festivals. The group has plans for releasing a second volume.〔 ==Development and recording== ''New Multitudes'' is one of several tribute albums for American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie. Guthrie died in 1967 after an extended battle with Huntington's disease, but his relatively brief career helped to inspire innumerable musicians during his lifetime as well as in the 1960s folk revival movement. Initially, this project was announced as a Farrar solo album with Johnson as a contributor.〔 It was intended to follow previous efforts to elaborate on the archives of the Foundation by Billy Bragg and Wilco with the albums ''Mermaid Avenue'' (1998) and ''Mermaid Avenue Vol. II'' (2000), Blackfire's ''Woody Guthrie Singles'' (2003), Jonatha Brooke's ''The Works'' (2008), and the various artists compilation ''Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie'' (2011). Farrar was initially invited to collaborate with Bragg on the ''Mermaid Avenue'' sessions in 1995, but felt uncomfortable working on the material with someone else.〔 Warner Bros. Records wanted all of Son Volt to collaborate with Bragg, but after Farrar declined, he kept the idea in mind.〔 In 2006, he approached Nora Guthrie about returning to her father's lyrics and she agreed. To write his own batch of songs, Farrar looked through several of the over 3,000 handwritten lyrics that Guthrie's estate has preserved before incidentally focusing on his California period.〔 The connection to Guthrie's Los Angeles years was accidental—Farrar simply chose lyrics that he found compelling and Nora pointed out that they came from a relatively brief period of her father's life when he lived in Los Angeles.〔 He also made a conscious decision to write instrumentation in a style more similar to Guthrie's than other tribute projects, such as The Klezmatics' klezmer-based ''Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah'' and ''Wonder Wheel''.〔 Farrar had never listened to the Bragg and Wilco material to ensure that his songwriting would not be influenced by it.〔 Immediately before going to the Archives in autumn 2006,〔 Farrar invited his Gob Iron collaborator Anders Parker to come with him and look over potential material and the two returned several times over a period of months gathering lyrics for composition before recording together starting on July 14, 2007.〔 As they found lyrics that interested them, they had reproductions mailed to their homes from the Archives to work on the material at their leisure.〔 The duo finished recording several songs throughout the year but did not have enough material to complete the album. The recordings were also made without a budget or record contract for release.〔 Nora Guthrie played some of the 2009 recordings for Yames〔 and Farrar invited him to join the duo after discovering that he had visited the Archives as well. Yames wrote the tune for "Hoping Machine"〔 and suggested that fellow Monsters of Folk collaborator Johnson accompany them.〔 Farrar mailed Johnson some lyrics〔 and he composed "Chorine My Sheba Queen"〔 that afternoon,〔 while Yames was attracted to the lyrics of "Empty Bed Blues" while recovering from an injury.〔 Once the entire quartet had composed songs, they entered studios in Brooklyn and East St. Louis throughout 2009 and 2010, recording songs with live vocals in one or two takes,〔 crowding around a single microphone.〔 The group attempted to have the recordings ready for a 2011 release, but had to finish the album too late in the year.〔 Farrar has characterized the songwriting process for this album as easier than his typical work composing new lyrics as it allowed him to be less self-conscious.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Multitudes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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