Track Listings (27) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Flokways Members Wishing: 9 Total Copies: 0 Label: Smithsonian Folkways Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 5/23/2006 Genres: Folk, Pop Style: Traditional Folk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 093074016626 |
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Songs of the American labor movement over the 20th century for just wages, dignity, and a fair shake. They voiced grievances, affirmed the value of the worker to society, and painted a picture of just world that could, on... more » |
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Album Description Songs of the American labor movement over the 20th century for just wages, dignity, and a fair shake. They voiced grievances, affirmed the value of the worker to society, and painted a picture of just world that could, one day, exist. Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways is a collage of these voices?champions of the movement, singing songs with a passion and love for their fellow workers that rings just as true today as it did then. Utah Phillips, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joe Glazer, the Almanac Singers, and more chronicle the history of the American labor movement in stirring song. 28-page booklet, 27 classic tracks! 77 minutes of music! Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBest Labor Songs Collection James Charnock | USA | 06/22/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "You would expect that since this collection is a Smithsonian Folkways Recording it would be better than most. And it is! I have listened to many work/labor songs CD's and found that the quality and varation of the songs in this collection much better. And there are not 12 or 16, but 27! Of course, there are a few male and female singers that I always pass up, but, still, just a few. Having been a union shop steward/building representative at my school for many years (and walked several picket lines), I can relate to the messages herein. They are really inspiring--and I don't tire of listening to them, as the previous reviewer seems to say, too. You will love the voices of Paul Robeson, Pete and Mike and Peggy Seeger, Joe Glazer (four tunes), Larry Penn, Eddie Starr, Kenny Winfree, John O'Connor, Anne Freeney. These "artists" are on other collections in the same genre, but those version and their quality do not match this." Labor songs Amanda Peck | Waynesboro | 05/07/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "Mind you, the songs are all over the place. From a pretty dreadful song about Carpal tunnel syndrome and a silly song written "by" the little piece of paper that's your union card, to Paul Robeson's "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night." A bunch of songs sung by Joe Glaser, who I don't think I'd heard before (odder than it sounds). And the New Harmony Sisterhood band updating "Union Maid," then switching into a wild klesmer version. It was the CD in the truck for a hundred mile trip over the weekend. I ended up skipping maybe just those two songs the second, third, and fourth times through. But sighing happily to hear Robeson each time. And the variations on Union Maid." History Owl | Wisconsin | 01/02/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "The labor movement is part of our history as a country and of those who have struggled. Whatever the origins of the movement were, or said to be, labor songs and the spirit of the working man needs to be respected, studied and taught. Another great CD."
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