Workin’ Folks Blues
Today we pay homage to the working folk. Also my dad is here. It’s gonna be a good time.
Playlist
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Mississippi Chain Gang, “I Be so Happy When the Sun Goes Down”
Baxter St. - 2015
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The Almanac Singers, “I Don't Want Your MIllions, Mister (All I Want)”
from The Original Talking Union and Other Union Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Woody Guthrie, “The Jolly Banker”
from Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2012
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Randy Newman, “Mr. President (Have Pity On the Working Man)”
from Good Old Boys
Rhino/Warner Records - 2005
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Utah Phillips, “The Boss”
Philo - 1983
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Utah Phillips, “We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years”
Philo - 1983
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Barbara Dane, “I Hate the Capitalist System”
from I Hate the Capitalist System
Paredon Records/Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2004
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Mississippi John Hurt, “Spike Driver Blues”
from Candy Man Blues: Essential Recordings
Rounder Records - 2009
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Lead Belly, “Bourgeois Blues”
from Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1997
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Alistair Hulett and dave swarbrick, “the old divide and rule”
from saturday johnny and jimmy the rat
red rattler - 1996
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Eddie Starr, “I'm Union and I'm Proud”
from Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2006
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Pete Seeger, “Casey Jones (The Union Scab)”
from Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2019
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Merle Haggard & The Strangers, “Workin' Man Blues”
from Down Every Road 1962-1994
Capitol Nashville - 1996
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Tom Morello, “Ease My Revolutionary Mind”
from Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At the Kennedy Center
Legacy Recordings - 2013
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Billy Bragg, “There Is Power in a Union”
from Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Cooking Vinyl - 2006
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