The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio
The Edge of Americana – August 21, 2023
Songs of class struggle and workers supporting workers, unlike certain other modern compositions that punch down for some reason.
Enjoy, comrades
JB
Show archive
Playlist
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Pete Steele, “The Song of Hard Times”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1958
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Hazel Dickens, “They'll Never Keep Us Down”
from Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
Rounder - 1980
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Pete Seeger, “There Is Mean Things Happening In This Land”
from Gazette, Vol. 1
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Joe Williams, “Providence Help the Poor People”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 1998
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Edward L. Crain, “Starving To Death On a Government Claim”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2006
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Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, “New Money”
from Fiddlin Doc Roberts Vol. 1 1925 - 1928
Document Records - 1999
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Woody Guthrie, “A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week”
from Struggle
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
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Barbara Dane, “Working People's Blues”
from Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2018
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John Haywood, “Hard Times”
from Haywood Banjo Volume 3 With Ponty's Camper & Rats On The Railroad
self-released - 2007
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The McIntosh County Shouters, “Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit”
from Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2017
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Frank Wheeler & Monroe Lamb, “The Farmer Feeds Them All”
Montgomery Ward - 1930
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Florence Reece & The Almanac Singers, “Which Side Are You On?”
from Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2006
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Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller, “Hungry Faint and Poor”
from Deep End Sessions, Vol. II
Deep End Sessions - 2015
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Ragtime Skedaddlers, “Easy Money”
from The Latest Popular Mandolin and Guitar Music
Mandophone - 2014
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Blind Alfred Reed, “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live”
from Blind Alfred Reed (1927-1929)
Document Records - 1998
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Special Ed and the Shortbus, “Don't Worry 'Bout the Poor”
from Ground Beef Patrol
Special Ed and the Shortbus - 2007
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The Dixon Brothers, “How Can a Broke Man Be Happy?”
from Dixon Brothers Vol. 2 (1937)
Document Records - 1999
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Woody Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”
from Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1998
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David McCarn, “Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2)”
from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music (1923-1936)
Tompkins Square - 2013
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The New Lost City Ramblers, “Poor Old Dirt Farmer”
from 40 Years of Concert Performances (Live)
New Rounder - 2001
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Billy Bragg, “Rich Men Earning North of a Million”
from Rich Men Earning North of a Million
Billy Bragg - 2023