Which Side Are You On?
Happy Labor Day!
We’re commemorating those within the earlier parts of the recorded labor movement in this week’s show. Class and labor oppression doesn’t change much with time, just the people and places. These are songs of solidarity and connect us to the struggles of those that came before.
Playlist
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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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Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock, “Casey Jones (The Union Scab)”
from Haywire Mac
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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![I'm Going Where the Water Drinks Like Wine (18 Unsung Bluesmen) [Rarities 1923-29]](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/c7/f3/e6/mzi.hudsukqy.jpg/150x150bb.jpg)
Tom Dickson, “Labor Blues”
from I'm Going Where the Water Drinks Like Wine (18 Unsung Bluesmen) [Rarities 1923-29]
Quatermass (Subrosa) - 2010
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Barbara Dane, “I Don't Want Your Millions, Mr.”
from I Hate the Capitalist System
Paredon Records/Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2004
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Sampson Pittman, “This Old World's in a Tangle”
from Top 9 Classics - The Very Best of Sampson Pittman
GRR Music - 2021
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Woody Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”
from The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1999
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Jackson Lynch, “Last Payday At Coal Creek”
from The Best of the 5th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival
Jalopy Records - 2014
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The Almanac Singers, “Which Side Are You On? (feat. Pete Seeger)”
from Songs for John Doe, Talking Union (1941)
Folk, Blues & Beyond - 2012
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Rosalie Sorrels & U. Utah Phillips, “The Charge On Mother Jones”
from The Long Memory
Red House Records - 1996
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Uncle Dave Macon, “Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line”
from Country Gold: Uncle Dave Macon a.k.a. The Dixie Dewrop, Vol. 3
Vantage Point
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Blind Boy Paxton, “Trying to Make One Hundred”
from Recorded Music for Your Entertainment
self released
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The Carolina Tar Heels, “Got the Farm Land Blues”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 1998
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The New Lost City Ramblers, “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live”
from 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2009
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Cedar Creek Sheik, “Jimmy Shut His Store Doors”
from Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition
Document Records - 2005
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George Landers, “Rolling Mills Are Burning Down”
from High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes From Virginia and North Carolina
New Rounder - 1975
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Papa Vega's Dream Shadows Orchestra, “So Tired”
from Jalopy Records 7" Series: Papa Vega's Dream Shadows Orchestra - EP
Jalopy Records - 2018
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Mississippi Matilda, “Hard Working Woman”
from Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You've Never Heard
World Music Network - 2018
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Mississippi John Hurt, “Praying On the Old Camp Ground”
from Avalon Blues (The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings)
Columbia/Legacy - 1996
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The New Lost City Ramblers, “When First Unto This Country”
from I Love Music: Only Original Recondings
Itube - 2015
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Bob Miller, “The Rich Man & The Poor Man”
from Power To The People - Protest Songs
Master Classics Records - 2009
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Leadbelly, “Bourgeouis Blues”
from Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1997
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The Bently Boys, “Down On Penny's Farm”
from Old Country Songs from Down On the Farm, Vol. 2
Vintage Masters - 2008
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Pete Seeger, “Jay Gould's Daughter”
from American Ballads
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Woody Guthrie, “Do Re Mi”
from Bound for Glory: The Songs and Story of Woody Guthrie
Folkways Records - 1956
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Utah Phillips, “This Land is Not Our Land”
from Making Speech Free
Trade Root Music Group Llc - 1999
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Baldemar Velasquez and Aguila Negra Band, “De Colores”
1647931 Records DK - 2020