On a Day of Rest, Fought and Paid For
“Solidarity is what we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.”
-Mother Jones
Activist, Leader, Teacher
Playlist
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Hack's String Band, “Wink the Other Eye”
from Kentucky Mountain Music (Classic Recordings of the 1920s & 1930s)
Yazoo Records
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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 - 1990
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Mississippi Fred McDowell, “Death Comes a-Creepin' in My Room”
from Death Comes a-Creepin' in My Room - Single
Blues Routes
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Mississippi Mudder, “Going Back Home”
from Mississippi String Bands & Associates (1928-1931)
Doxy Records
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Kabongo Bonkoli, “Musungayi Nembwa Matumba”
from Ethnic Music Classics on 78 Rpm, Central Africa
MUSICAL ARK - 2015
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Sampson Pittman, “This Old World's in a Tangle”
from Detroit City Blues, Vol. 1
Revolver Records - 2009
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Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, “And the Cat Came Back the Very Next Day”
from Fiddlin Doc Roberts Vol. 1 1925 - 1928
Document Records - 1999
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Glen Smith, “Little Love”
Smithsonian Folkways
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Joe Jordan's Ten Sharps and Flats, “Old Folks Shuffle”
from Stop and Listen! - Rare Black Recordings 1923-1930
Frog - 2012
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Five Jinks, “There Goes My Headache”
from Black Secular Vocal Groups Vol. 2: The Thirties (1931-1939)
Document Records - 1997
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Selma Elona Halinen, “Pikkulintu Erämaassa Lauleleepi Suruissana”
from Michigan-I-O: Alan Lomax and the 1938 Library of Congress Folk-Song Expedition
Global Jukebox - 2014
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Las Hermanas Padilla, “Sueno En Rio Grande”
from RCA 100 Años de Musica: Las Hermanas Padilla
Victor
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Theopolis Stokes, “Washboard Solos: Breakdown Tempo / Blues Tempo / Swing Tempo”
from Too Late, Too Late, Vol. 10 (1926-1951)
Document Records - 1998
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Odhiambo Otieno, “Opondo Mugoye”
from Ethnic Music Classics on 78 Rpm, Central Africa
MUSICAL ARK - 2015
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Hira Malaza Taloha, “Rambalamanana”
from The Music Of Madagascar (Classic Traditional Recordings Of The 1930s)
Shanachie
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Dewey Segura, “Far Away from Home Blues (Remastered)”
from New Orleans Blues 30's (Doxy Collection) [Remastered]
Doxy Records - 2014
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Caluza's Double Quartet, “Imini Ifkile”
from Ethnic Music Classics on 78 rpm- South Africa
Musical Ark
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T. Fazylova, “Khar-Shabi”
from The Secret Museum of Mankind - Central Asia - Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48
Shanachie - 2005
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Dock Boggs, “No Disappointment In Heaven”
from His Folkways Years, 1963-1968
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1998
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Joe Harris & Kid West, “Railroad Rag”
from Field Recordings, Vol. 5: Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas (1933-1940)
Document Records - 1997
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Cleveland Benoit & Darby Hicks, “La-Bas Chez Moreau”
from Field Recordings, Vol. 5: Louisiana, Texas, Bahamas (1933-1940)
Document Records
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Lady Margaret & Sweet William, “Daw Henson”
from Kentucky Mountain Music (Classic Recordings of the 1920s & 1930s)
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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