Product Description
Note of Hope, A Celebration of Woody Guthrie is based on the words and writings of the great American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Previously unreleased, the collection features GRAMMY'-winning bassist Rob Wasserman's collaborations with Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Kurt Elling, Michael Franti, Nellie McKay, Tom Morello, Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel, Tony Trischka, and Chris Whitley. The release is the first in a series of events leading up to the 2012 centennial celebration of Guthrie's birth.

1. Note of Hope (feat. Van Dyke Parks)
2. Wild Card In The Hole (feat. Madeleine Peyroux)
3. Ease My Revolutionary Mind (feat. Tom Morello)
4. The Debt I Owe (feat. Lou Reed)
5. Union Love Juice (feat. Michael Franti)
6. Peace Pin Boogie (feat. Kurt Elling)
7. Voice (feat. Ani DiFranco)
8. I Heard A Man Talking (feat. Studs Terkel)
9. Old Folks (feat. Nellie McKay)
10. On The High Lonesome (feat. Chris Whitley)
11. There's A Feeling In Music (feat. Pete Seeger & Tony Trischka)
12. You Know The Night (feat. Jackson Browne)

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Rolling Stone, August 26, 2011

Jackson Browne and Rob Wasserman are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth by releasing "You Know the Night," a new piece of music based on a 30-page notebook entry penned by the revered songwriter just after meeting the woman who would become his second wife. "There's a great photo of me with like 12 sheets of music taped to two stands and trying to sing this stuff and figure out when to sing, so in a way it was a real editing job," Browne told Rolling Stone. "There wasn't too much you could take out because it's his story."

"You Know the Night" has been edited down to four minutes for radio, but the full performance - and the version that will appear on Notes of Hope, a collection of other musical interpretations of his writing - clocks in at just under 15 minutes. "The four-minute version came out really good but the 15-minute version is, like, impossible to cut down," says Browne. "We took out all the biographical stuff, really. They should be providing everybody with both."

"[Guthrie] used to bully people's spirits," Browne says. "The people he sang for needed that. People he sang for needed to hear that one, they were not alone and two, there's better times possible down the road. So, this song, the 15-minute version, is infused with that. There is something about him sitting on a park bench and playing with the curls of this beautiful girl's hair and talking about what kind of life they wanted. I think it's so universal. It's what people do when they fall in love. It's gigantic. It's a love song but at the same time a kind of an idealist trek."

Reporting by Patrick Doyle

jackson browne played about 3 minutes of this at his solo show in akron.

Renny,

iTunes has the 4 minute radio edit.

I saw this yesterday at J&R and immediately added it to my shopping list. Thanks for the link Jay.

My pleasure, Jim!