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Go Waggaloo
Go Waggaloo
Go Waggaloo
by Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family

Gifted singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gutherie brings charm, freshness, and feeling to her debut recording of music for children and families. Joined by her husband Johnny Irion, their two daughters, and a host of family and friends, including her father Arlo Guthrie, and Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez Seeger. Sarah Lee presents a thoughtful yet playful recording of traditional and new compositions. The CD includes three songs featuring lyrics by Woody Guthrie never before put to music and eights songs written by Sarah Lee and family. Listeners will hear electric and acoustic guitar, drums, piano, accordion, melodic, upright bass, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, tambourine, sitar, and even some whistling!

Age: 2 Years-old | Title: Go Waggaloo  |  Artist: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family  |  Label: Smithsonian Folksways

Gifted singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gutherie brings charm, freshness, and feeling to her debut recording of music for children and families. Joined by her husband Johnny Irion, their two daughters, and a host of family and friends, including her father Arlo Guthrie, and Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez Seeger. Sarah Lee presents a thoughtful yet playful recording of traditional and new compositions. The CD includes three songs featuring lyrics by Woody Guthrie never before put to music and eights songs written by Sarah Lee and family. Listeners will hear electric and acoustic guitar, drums, piano, accordion, melodic, upright bass, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, tambourine, sitar, and even some whistling!

With a last name like Guthrie, expectations for exceptional folk music are certainly high, but Sarah Lee meets the challenge and makes her own mark on the children's folk music genre. Sarah Lee's voice sounds a little country with the way she throws it beautifully, and some of the songs have slight undertones of jazz due to being set in a minor key. Brush Your Teeth Blues #57 is not only in a minor key, but also features the melodica, which may be a new instrument and sound for your little one. Oni's Ponies is also in a minor key, and the only song with piano, an accordion, and voice distortion in it. Fox and Goose is a song written by Woody Guthrie, but never put to a melody. Sarah Lee sets the folksy story-song to her own slow, jazzy tune. Don't I Fit in my Daddy's Shoes is one of the more traditional folk sounding tracks on the CD, and the upbeat melody is carried by a mandolin and Pete Seeger on the banjo. The CD is clearly a family project, as you can hear Sarah Lee's husband singing back-up in multiple songs, including Take Me to Show-and-Tell, which the song notes explain Johnny inspired by suggesting that their daughter, Olivia, take him for show-and-tell one day. Sarah Lee and Johnny's daughters are heard singing back-up on the majority of songs, whenever they know the lyrics - usually the chorus.
 
The song Big Moon is easily the most quirky song on the album, with people and instruments making all sorts of silly noises; this one is guaranteed to make your little one smile, and probably contribute their own stilly noises. Many of the songs have the title repeated a few times as the chorus, so they are easy to learn and join in. Your child can sing the "hey hey"s and "ha ha"s in the title track, Go Waggaloo, or nearly yell the line, "'Cuz We're Cousins" along with the children on the album. Pete Seeger leads She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain with new fun sound effects added for each verse, including, "toot toot," "Woah back," "High Babe," and snoring. A Bright Clear Day describes fun things to do no matter what the weather (skip on a rainy day, hop on a windy day, or jump on a cloudy day) - can your child come up with something fun and active to do in today's weather? If Mama Had Four Hands will spur your child's interactive and thinking skills; can your little one think of things that their mama would do if she had four hands? The whistling featured in this song is also fun, and the upbeat melody encourages dancing. The cover notes say Sarah and her family had the hand motions and a dance for this song before they even had all the lyrics.

My two-year-old friend, Kyle, enjoyed a game we played while and after listening to the song Take Me to Show-and-Tell. Kyle asked me what show-and-tell was, so I explain it and asked him what he would bring. He was delighted by the question and took some time to really think about it. Finally, he responded, "brownies." Although I probably already knew the answer, I asked him why he picked brownies, and he responded, "So I could eat them - but I would share too."

--Audra

Singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Guthrie is the youngest daughter of folksinger Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of  Woody Guthrie. Sarah Lee's first recorded appearance was as a vocalist on her father's 1981 album Power of Love. Her interest in music was sparked when she worked as her father's road manager on the 1997 Further Festival tour, and that was also the year Sarah Lee met her future husband, Johnny Irion. They were married in 1999 and began performing together as Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion in the fall of 2000. Sarah Lee eventually released her first self-titled album on the family's Rising Son Records in 2002. Seven years later, Sarah Lee and Johnny released their first children's CD, Go Waggaloo on the Smithsonian Folkways label.

Smithsonian Folkway Recording is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. Their mission is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkway Records in 1948 to document music, spoken word, instruction, and sounds from around the world. The Smithsonian acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987, and Smithsonian Folkways Recording has continued the Folkways tradition by supporting the work of traditional artists and expressing a commitment to cultural diversity, education, an increased understanding.

1. Don't I Fit in My Daddy's Shoes?

2. Go Waggaloo

3. Take Me to Show-and-Tell

4. Bright Clear Day

5. 'Cuz We're Cousins

6. Oh How He Lied

7. Big Moon

8. Fox and the Goose

9. If Mama Had Four Hands

10. Big Square Walkin'

11. She'll Be Comin' ‘Rounde the Mountain

12. Brush Your Teeth Blues #57

13. Oni's Ponies

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