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A trove of newly discovered recordings brings new focus to the iconic troubadour's legacy
By Mark Brown
Special to MSN Music
Lucia Sutera's story was way too good to be true.
Locked in the basement storage of her Brooklyn apartment building, she claimed, were hidden Woody Guthrie masters that had languished there for a half-century. The death of a longtime friend left Sutera with the raw metal master discs, used to press fragile acetates back in the '40s, with previously unheard Guthrie originals among the songs recorded.
It turned out that Sutera was underselling the story.
Not only did the lost gems "Bad Repetation," "Sonny's Flight" and four other previously unheard songs turn up, but the metal masters, stored for decades in milk crates and battered cardboard barrels, also contained a wealth of classic Guthrie songs in absolutely pristine sound.
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