Woodyboye is Joel Rafael’s second toast to Guthrie, following 2003’s Woodeye; it includes several complete Guthrie compositions, four songs of Guthrie lyrics that Rafael has set to music, and one original Rafael tune. There’s also “Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key”, with lyrics by Guthrie and music by Billy Bragg. All the familiar but timeless Guthrie themes are here: the life of the rambler (“Stepstone”); the shame of injustice (“Two Good Men”, about Sacco and Vanzetti); the weight of this world and the promise of the next (“This Train Is Bound For Glory”). Guthrie also greets the nuclear age in “Dance Around My Atom Fire”, for which Rafael wrote the music. Backed by his daughter Jamaica on violin and Carl Johnson on acoustic lead guitar, Rafael presents the songs in an elegantly simple manner that befits Guthrie’s lyrics and sensibility. Jimmy LaFave, Arlo Guthrie and others also help out on some tracks.