1. Recordings

2. References

"Vigilante Man" is a song by Woody Guthrie, recorded and released in 1940 as one of his Dust Bowl Ballads.^[1]

The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a man-made ecological catastrophe in the American Great Plains during the 1930s. One verse refers to the murder of Preacher (Jim) Casy, a central figure in John Steinbecks' 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath.^[2]

The tune was taken from "Sad and Lonesome Day", a song made popular by The Carter Family; which itself borrows from "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson.^[2]

Recordings

The song has been recorded several times, including:

• 1940{{snd}}Woody Guthrie, on the album Dust Bowl Ballads
• 1972{{snd}}Ry Cooder, on the album Into the Purple Valley
• 1973{{snd}}Nazareth, on the album Razamanaz
• 1988{{snd}}Bruce Springsteen, on the album A Vision Shared
• 1990{{snd}}Hindu Love Gods, on the album Hindu Love Gods
• 1996{{snd}}feedtime, on the album Billy
• 2002{{snd}}Ray LaMontagne, on the album One Lonesome Saddle
• 2005{{snd}}Joe Perry, on the album Joe Perry

References

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• Jacquelyne J. Jackson
• Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson
• Jacquelyne Joyce
• Jacquelyn Ford Morie
• Jacquelyn Frank
• Jacquelyn Grant
• Jacquelyn Herron
• Jacquelyn Jablonski
• Jacquelyn J. Lahn
• Jacquelyn Johnson
• Jacquelyn Joyce
• Jacquelyn Kelley
• Jacquelyn Kennedy
• Jacquelyn Moore
• Jacquelynne Eccles
• Jacquelynne S. Eccles