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The best of Broadside 1962-1988 : [anthems of the American underground from the pages of Broadside magazine]

Call Number

  • COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK (CEN)

Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2000.

Physical Description

5 sound discs (ca. 5 hrs., 23 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (spiral-bound, 158 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.) in slipcase

Notes

Subtitle from container.

Compact discs.

Contains previously released selections.

Accompanying text includes song lyrics, interviews, historical commentary, discography (p. 154-155), bibliographical references (p. 155-156), and index.

Contents

  • Disc 1. Links on the chain (The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs)
  • Blowin' in the wind (The New World Singers)
  • Paths of victory (The Broadside Singers)
  • The ballad of Ira Hayes (Peter La Farge)
  • Ain't that news? (The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton)
  • The times I've had (The Broadside Singers)
  • Go limp (Matt McGinn)
  • Ding dong dollar (The Glasgow Song Guild)
  • Mack the bomb (Pete Seeger)
  • The civil defense sign (Mark Spoelstra)
  • Let me die in my footsteps (Happy Traum)
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian roulette (Jim Page)
  • What have they done to the rain? (Malvina Reynolds)
  • Ballad of William Worthy (Phil Ochs)
  • Train for Auschwitz (Tom Paxton)
  • Do as the Doukhobors do (Pete Seeger)
  • Christine (The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton)
  • As long as the grass shall grow (Peter La Large).
  • Disc 2. John Brown (Bob Dylan)
  • Take me for a walk (morning dew) (Bonnie Dobson)
  • The willing conscript (Pete Seeger)
  • Kill for peace (The Fugs)
  • Plains of Nebrasky-o (Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs)
  • Benny kid paret (Gil Turner)
  • What did you learn in school today? (Tom Paxton)
  • Changin' hands (The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs)
  • Welcome, welcome emigrante (The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie)
  • Shady acres (Janis Ian)
  • Lord, hold back the waters (Will McLean)
  • Ballad of Donald White (Bob Dylan)
  • Song for Patty (Sammy Walker)
  • A very close friend of mine (Richard Black)
  • Long time troubled road (Eric Andersen)
  • Hard rain's a-gonna fall (Pete Seeger).
  • Disc 3. Mississippi goddam (Nina Simone)
  • We'll never turn back (The Freedom Singers)
  • Freedom riders (Phil Ochs)
  • Father's grave (Len Chandler)
  • Baby I've been thinking (society's child) (Janis Ian)
  • I'm going to get my baby out of jail (Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon)
  • The ballad of Martin Luther King (Mike Millius)
  • Carry it on (The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler)
  • Birmingham Sunday (Richard Fariña)
  • The migrant's song (Luis Valdez and Augustin Lira)
  • El picket sign (El Teatro Campesino)
  • La lucha continuara (Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood)
  • Contra la por (Raimon Padilla)
  • Mrs. Clara Sullivan's letter (Pete Seeger)
  • If it wasn't for the union (Matt McGinn)
  • More good men going down (The Broadside Singers)
  • Sundown ; My Oklahoma home (it blowed away) (Sis Cunningham)
  • Draglines (Deborah Silverstein and the New Harmony Sisterhood Band)
  • My father's mansion's many rooms (Pete Seeger).
  • Disc 4. Pinkville helicopter (Thom Parrott)
  • Hell no, I ain't gonna go (Matt Jones and Elaine Laron)
  • We seek no wider war (Phil Ochs)
  • Waist deep in the Big Muddy (Pete Seeger)
  • Vietnam (Paul Kaplan)
  • Hole in the ground (Thom Parrott)
  • To be a killer (Wes Houston)
  • New York J-D blues (Pete Seeger)
  • Little boxes (Malvina Reynolds)
  • Not enough to live on but a little too much to die (Mike Millius)
  • The faucets are dripping (Malvina Reynolds)
  • Bizzness ain't dead (The New World Singers)
  • Business (Pete Seeger)
  • Legal-illegal (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)
  • Brown water and blood (Jeff Ampolsk)
  • The Aberfan coal tip tragedy (Thom Parrott)
  • Lafayette (Lucinda Williams)
  • The ballad of Earl Durand (Charlie Brown)
  • Plastic Jesus (Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family).
  • Disc 5. Burn, baby, burn ; The cities are burning (Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Collier)
  • Nothing but his blood (Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick)
  • You're just a laughing fool (Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Collier)
  • Time is running out (Wendy Smith)
  • But if I ask them (Sis Cunningham)
  • Ragamuffin minstrel boy (Sammy Walker)
  • Changes (Phil Ochs)
  • Bound for glory (Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs)
  • Victor Jara (Arlo Guthrie)
  • We will never give up (Kristin Lems)
  • Inez (Bev Grant and the Human Condition)
  • Gonna be an engineer (Peggy Seeger)
  • Don't talk to strangers (Chris Gaylord)
  • Catcher in the rye (Sammy Walker)
  • The time will come (Elaine White).

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