1930's tunes Dust Bowl

Here are the collected responses from my colleagues on another group:
Responses about songs of the dust bowl:

Cary Ginell wrote:
>You really don't have to look any farther than Woody Guthrie to find a wealth of songs dealing with The Dust Bowl, including "Do Re Mi," "Dust Bowl Refugee," "Tom Joad," "Dust Won't Kill Me," and many others. Guthrie's 1940 session for Victor, "Dust Bowl Ballads" has many of them. It was reissued on a Rounder CD. And yes, it was a severe drought that
hit the midwestern U.S. during the 1930s. The drought caused thousands of residents to abandon their farms, pack up their belongings and head for California, where the promise of plentiful work as sharecroppers
beckoned. The 1939 film "The Grapes of Wrath" (with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and John Carradine) depicted this period in American history quite accurately. It's a marvelous film, and even includes some of the songs from the period.

Doug Pomeroy wrote:
The original Victor recordings were reissued in 2000 on Buddha Records
(a subsidiary of BMG). "WOODY GUTHRIE: Dust Bowl Ballads", catalog number 74465 99724-2.

Bob Shirer wrote:
The best known songs were Woody Guthrie's "Dust Bowl
Ballads" first issued in 1940 or 41 in two albums (recorded 4/26/40) by Victor, Victor P-27 and P-28, and redone with a few different songs for Disc 610 after the war. There are surely others, but the Guthrie songs are the best; for example: "Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues", "Do Re Me", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Dusty Old Dust", "Vigilante Man", and the amazing two part summary of "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ballad of Tom Joad".

Bud Black wrote:
>"The Sharecroppin' Blues" - Gene Austin
(....if we don't get some rain soon we'll be gone with the dust....)

Bill Knowlton wrote:
Woody Guthrie made a career out of songs about the Dust Bowl; the "anthem," however, seems to be the "Lonesome Road Blues (Going Down This
Road Feeling Bad.")

Flatt & Scruggs did Guthrie's "Pastures Of Plenty," and the Carter Family recorded "No Depression In Heaven," a real winner.

Regards