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Legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie would have turned 100 years old in 2012, and to honor his memory The Grammy Museum is teaming up with both the Guthrie family and The Woody Guthrie Archives to host a number of Centennial celebration events spread across the year.

One of these celebrations is a collaborative tribute album, which was recorded by a quartet of great musicians: Will Johnson of Centro-Matic, Jay Farrar of Son Volt, Anders Parker of Varnaline, and Jim James from My Morning Jacket (who went by his pseudonym Yim Yames for this project).  It will be called New Multitudes.

With Woody Guthrie’s name invoked at almost every Occupy movement location, his legacy continues to live on….and you couldn’t pick 4 more perfect voices to interpret Guthrie’s music.  The album is due out in January on Rounder.  [UPDATE: February 28, 2012]

We’ll keep you up with developments.  Meanwhile, here’s…

Our review of Centro-Matic’s recent album Candidate Waltz.

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