Lost Music Saloon: Sept. 3, 2018: 5-7:00 p.m.: Labor Day Special
Welcome to the 2018 Labor Day Special here in the Lost Music Saloon. To a lot of folks the Labor Day weekend is a good reason to squeeze out a few last days of summer at the beach, or at a BBQ, or shopping the sales. But Labor Day started out as a holiday to recognize both the laboring class in America, and the struggles of organized labor on behalf of working men and women. Today’s Saloon selects songs that lean heavily in that direction.
I’ll also be giving away tickets to see the SOLD OUT Trampled by Turtles concert in Charlottesville this coming weekend, as well as taking an advance peek at the Drive-By Truckers who’ll be performing right here in Richmond on Brown’s Island this coming Saturday.
Lost Music Saloon: PLAYLIST: Sept. 3, 2018: 5-7:00 p.m.: Labor Day Special
Tennessee Ernie Ford: Sixteen Tons
James McMurtry: We Can’t Make It Here
John O’Connor: The Pressroom: We Ain’t Gonna Give It Back
The Almanac Singers: Talking Union
John Conlee: Working Man
The Vogues: Five O’Clock World
Terri Hendrix: Monopoly
Jared Deck: The American Dream
The New Harmony Sisterhood Band: Union Maids
Steve Earle: Copperhead Road
Live in Richmond This Coming Weekend:
Drive-By Truckers @ Brown’s Island on Saturday, Sept 8:
– Drive-By Truckers: Gravity’s Gone: A Blessing and a Curse
Live in Charlottesville This Coming Weekend:
Trampled By Turtles @ The Jefferson on Sunday, Sept 9th:
– Trampled By Turtles: Right Back Where We Started: Life Is Good On the Open Road
Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It
Rodney Crowell: The Obscenity Prayer (Give It To Me)
John O’Connor: Ballad of Labor Law: We Ain’t Gonna Give It Back
Joe Glazer: Automation
The Bottle Rockets: Welfare Music
Adam Carroll: AFL-CIO
Ed Pettersen: Gather the Family ‘Round
Lee Dorsey: Working in the Coal Mine
Hardworking Americans: Blackland Farmer
Kenny Winfree: I’m a Union Card
Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers: Tired Worker’s Song
Live in Charlottesville This Coming Weekend [SOLD OUT!! But We Have Two Tickets!!]:
Trampled By Turtles @ The Jefferson on Sunday, Sept 9 @ 7:00/8:00 p.m.:
– Trampled By Turtles: Midnight On the Interstate: Stars and Satellites
– – With “Kick & Banjo”
Live in Richmond @ Brown’s Island on Saturday, Sept 8th, 1-10 p.m.:
– Futurebirds: There Is No Place For This To Go: Hampton’s Lullaby
– *Drive-By Truckers: Filthy and Fried: American Band
David Rovics: Minimum Wage Strike
Stan Swiniarski: They Called Me an American
Jim Croce: Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
Bob Dylan: Workingman’s Blues
Anne Feener: We Just Come to Work Here
Garry, DJ
Lost Music Saloon
WRIR 97.3 FM
Richmond, Virginia
www.wrir.org
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Show archive
Playlist
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The Almanac Singers, “Talking Union”
from The Original Talking Union and Other Union Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1941
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Deborah Silverstein & The New Harmony Sisterhood Band, “Union Maids”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2000
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Steve Earle, “Copperhead Road”
from Ain't Ever Satisfied - The Steve Earle Collection
Hip-O Records - 1988
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Trampled By Turtles, “Right Back Where We Started”
from Life Is Good on the Open Road
Banjodad Records - 2018
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The Bottle Rockets, “Welfare Music”
from Bottle Rockets and the Brooklyn Side
Bloodshot Records - 2013
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Ed Pettersen, “Gather the Family 'Round”
from The New Punk Blues of Ed Pettersen
(RED) Splitrock Records
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Lee Dorsey, “Working In The Coal Mine”
from Working In The Coal Mine / Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky [Digital 45]
Essential Media Group - 2010
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Kenny Winfree, “I'm a Union Card”
from Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2006
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Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers, “Tired Worker's Song”
from Starlight Hotel
Signature Sounds - 2011
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David Rovics, “Minimum Wage Strike”
from Behind the Barricades: The Best of David Rovics
Daemon Records
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Anne Feeney, “We Just Come to Work Here (We Don't Come to Die)”
from Songs of Occupational Health and Safety
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Collector Records - 2007