Work Songs and Sounds of Toil
Tonight we canvas over some songs about working, struggling, toiling and trying. From the labor movement to the everyday happenings of tradesmen.
Playlist
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Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson, “Walking Boss”
from The Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1994
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Peg Leg Howell, “Coal Man Blues”
from Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony Vol. 1 (1926-1928)
Document Records - 2003
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Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock, “Jerry, Go and Oil That Car”
from Songs to Grow On, Vol. 3: American Work Songs
1951
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Woody Guthrie, “Jackhammer John”
from Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1964
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William Smith & Versey Smith, “Everybody Help the Boys Come Home”
from Bloody War : Songs 1924-1939
2010
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Carolina Tarheels, “There Ain't No Use in Working So Hard”
from There Ain't No Use in Working So Hard
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Pete Steele, “Coal Creek March”
from Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2002
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Buster Carter & Preston Young, “A Lazy Farmer Boy”
from Walter Smith & Friends Vol. 3 (1931-1936)
Document Records - 2005
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Utah Phillips, “Joe Hill's Last Will”
from Don't Mourn-Organize! - Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2003
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Mike Seeger, “Cotton Mill Colic”
from Tipple, Loom & Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South
Folkways Records - 1965
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Samuel Brooks, “Quittin' Time Song”
from Africa and the Blues (Connections and Reconnections)
Neatwork - 2001