Other author/creator | Leadbelly, 1885-1949 performer. |
Other author/creator | Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958, performer. |
Other author/creator | Burkee, Jill, performer. |
Other author/creator | Carawan, Guy, performer. |
Other author/creator | Cunningham, Sis, 1909-2004, performer. |
Other author/creator | Dane, Barbara performer. |
Other author/creator | Dann, Mark, performer. |
Other author/creator | Dupree, Champion Jack, -1992, performer. |
Other author/creator | Estridge, Larry, 1948- performer. |
Other author/creator | Forbert, Steve, performer. |
Other author/creator | Getz, Liz, performer. |
Other author/creator | Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967 performer. |
Other author/creator | Hardy, Jack, 1947-2011, performer. |
Other author/creator | Ian, Janis, performer. |
Other author/creator | La Farge, Peter, 1931-1965, performer. |
Other author/creator | Ochs, Phil, performer. |
Other author/creator | Seeger, Peggy, 1935- performer. |
Other author/creator | Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014 performer. |
Other author/creator | Sellers, John, 1924-1999, performer. |
Other author/creator | Bergerfolk (Musical group), performer. |
Other author/creator | New Lost City Ramblers performer. |
Other author/creator | New World Singers, performer. |
Other author/creator | Perros del Pueblo Nuevo (Musical group), performer. |
Other author/creator | Red Shadow (Musical group), performer. |
Variant title |
Title on original container: Classic protest songs from Smithsonian Folkways |
Contents |
Freedom now chant (mass-meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) (:26) -- Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie) (2:37) -- Bourgeois blues (Lead Belly) (2:18) -- Black, brown, and white (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:42) -- Baby, I've been thinking (Janis Ian) (2:41) -- Blowing in the wind (the New World Singers) (2:28) -- This land is your land (Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee, and Mark Dann) (4:39) -- Turn, turn, turn (Liz Getz) (3:04) -- As long as the grass will grow (Peter La Farge) (5:07) -- Talking pay TV (Phil Ochs) (2:34) -- Masters of war (the Bergerfolk) (4:07) -- Waist deep in the big muddy (Pete Seeger) (2:57) -- Agent Orange (Peggy Seeger) (3:51) -- Strange fruit (Brother John Sellers) (2:20) -- How can a poor man stand such times and live (New Lost City Ramblers) (3:34) -- I'm going to write the Governor of Georgia (Champion Jack Dupree) (3:13) -- When we make it through (Barbara Dane) (5:25) -- Evicted tenant (Sis Cunningham) (2:06) -- Corrido de César Chávez (Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo) (3:02) -- Gone, gone, gone (Red Shadow) (2:14) -- Spirits of the revolution (Larry Estridge) (5:09) -- We shall overcome (Guy Carawan) (3:40). |
General note | Originally issued as compact disc. |
General note | Program notes by Jeff Place, bibliography, and discography inserted in original container. |
General note | Selections originally released 1959-2005; track 16 previously unreleased. |
Performer |
Various performers. |
Language | Sung in English (principally) and Spanish. |