I ran across the "Proper Introduction to Woody Guthrie" for cheap a few weeks ago; it's a nice compilation of Woody's best. I've never been a huge folkie but Woody & Pete were the fountainheads of a lot of music that followed.
So I decided to look for some Pete. He has seemingly HUNDREDS of albums and compilations and most of his songs have been done in many many versions: solo, on TV, on the radio, in front of audiences, with studio sing-alongs, with the Weavers.... Hard to narrow it down to single definitive versions of the hundreds of songs he wrote and the thousands of versions he recorded.
YouTube has been a well-spring of Pete recordings. One video reproduces something called "100 Greatest Folk Classics" which is over four hours of Pete singing, and yup, a hundred songs. I'm listening, and extracting the ones I want to keep. What a REMARKABLE legacy this man left. Hard to cut it down to 80 minutes.
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