VA - Classic Labor Songs [Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40166] {US 2006}

VA - Classic Labor Songs
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Various - Classic Labor Songs (From Smithsonian Folkways)

Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Catalog#: SFW CD 40166
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2006
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Political Song

Tracklist:

1 Paul Robeson - Joe Hill 3:01
2 Bobbie McGee - Bread And Roses 2:30
3 Pete Seeger And Almanac Singers, The - Casey Jones (Union Scab) 1:55
4 Joe Glazer - We Shall Not Be Moved/Roll The Union On 2:23
5 John Handcox - Roll The Union On 1:07
6 Mike Seeger - Cotton Mill Colic 2:38
7 Joe Glazer - The Mill Was Made Of Marble 3:59
8 Peggy Seeger - Aragon Mill 3:09
9 Almanac Singers - Talking Union 3:02
10 Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre 3:36
11 Utah Phillips - The Preacher And The Slave 2:19
Which Side Are You On? (2:35)
12a Florence Reece - Which Side Are You On?
12b Almanac Singers - Which Side Are You On?

13 Joe Uehlein - Hold The Fort 3:58
14 New Harmony Sisterhood Band - Union Maid 3:06
15 Joe Glazer - Too Old To Work 2:51
16 Hazel Dickens - Black Lung 3:22
17 Larry Penn - Been Rolling So Long 4:00
18 Tom Juravich - VDT 1:56
19 Joe Glazer - Automation 2:34
20 Eddie Starr - I'm Union And I'm Proud 2:57
21 Kenny Winfree - I'm A Union Card 2:27
22 John O'Connor - Carpal Tunnel 2:37
23 Anne Feeney - We Just Come To Work Here, We Don't Come To Die 2:49
24 Elaine Purkey - One Day More 3:38
25 Jon Fromer - We Do The Work 2:41
26 Baldemar Velasquez And Aguila Negra - De Colores 2:59
27 Joe Glazer - Solidarity Forever 2:28

Credits:

Compiled By, Liner Notes [Annotated By] - Jeff Place, Joe Glazer
Design, Layout - Communication Visual
Liner Notes [Edited By] - Jacob Love
Management [Production] - Mary Monseur
Mastered By - Pete Reiniger
Producer [Production Assistance] - Jack Manischewitz
Supervised By [Production] - Atesh Sonneborn, Daniel Sheehy

Notes:

Recordings from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

?? 2006 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Classic-Labor-Songs-From-Smithsonian-Folkways/release/2448526
Smithonian Url: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3123





Review

by Steve Leggett

In the era of the sound bite, when songs are used to hawk everything from shampoo, soap, and cars to wine coolers, dating services, and Viagra, it is easy to lose sight of the more noble utilitarian use songs can have, and this haunting collection of 20th century labor songs calling for fairness, dignity, and a just wage is a compelling document of the power of songs to unite and enable. Drawn from Smithsonian Folkways' vast collection and from Joe Glazer's Collector Records, which in 2006 became a part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog, Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways is by turns spirited, uplifting, wry, and ironic, and if some of these songs seem quaint in the light of today's complicated global economic landscape, the issues they raise for the fair and just treatment of labor continue to be extremely vital ones. Among the highlights here are Paul Robeson's stately "Joe Hill," which opens the sequence, John Handcox's unaccompanied field recording of his own "Roll the Union On" (based on the gospel song "Roll the Chariot On") from 1937, Woody Guthrie's heart-breaking "1913 Massacre" (based on a true incident during a miner's strike in Calumet, MI where 73 children lost their lives), and a shaky yet riveting version of Florence Reece singing her "Which Side Are You On" from a 1971 archival tape (she actually wrote the song during a miners' strike in Harlan County, KY in 1931) that dovetails seamlessly into the Almanac Singers' 1955 version of the same song. But not everything here deals with miners and mill workers. Some of the songs have a distinct contemporary feel, like Tom Juravich's "VDT," which pleads the case of cubicle workers who spend all day entering data on a video display terminal, and John O'Connor's unaccompanied "Carpal Tunnel," which explores the health issues that stem from workplace tasks that require continual repetitive movement. In an era when label-created hipsters rap on about getting personal respect all day over the airwaves, these songs seem unadorned and out of touch by comparison. But there is a quiet strength to them, and a deep understanding of what respect really means, and long after today's flavor of the week drops from sight (utility isn't always measured by chart position), these songs will still be sung.

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