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| 1. Banks Are Made Of Marble - Pete Seeger | |||
| 2. Chain Gang Boun' - Josh White & His Carolinians | |||
| 3. Joe Hill - Earl Robinson | |||
| 4. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie | |||
| 5. Jim Crow - The Union Boys | |||
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| 1. Conversation With A Mule - Pete Seeger | |||
| 2. Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie | |||
| 3. The Roosevelt Song - Leadbelly | |||
| 4. The Boll Weevil - Carl Sandburg | |||
| 5. Talking Bilbo - Lee Hays | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Strange Fruit - Josh White | |||
| 2. The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly | |||
| 3. C For Conscription - Almanac Singers | |||
| 4. Citizen C.I.O. - Tom Glazer & Josh White | |||
| 5. Free And Equal Blues (Parts 1 & 2) - Earl Robinson & Dooley Wilson | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. DVD: Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land | |||
| 2. DVD: Pete Seeger - Casey Jones | |||
| 3. DVD: Pete Seeger - I'm Gonna Marry A Smiling Gal | |||
| 4. DVD: Woody Guthrie - Greenback Dollar | |||
| 5. DVD: Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee - John Henry | |||
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Product Description
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`The Little Red Song Book' first appeared in the US in 1909. It contained songs that took traditional hymns and set pro-Union work songs to them to be sung at rallies and demonstrations across America for the Industrial Workers of the World party: the `Wobblies'. The most famous song writer in the movement was Joe Hill whose infamous death made him a legend to future protest singers such as Seeger & Guthrie who took the Wobblies ideals into the Forties and Fifties on the New York Folk scene.
Black artists moved from the South looking for fairer working and living conditions and they teamed up with Seeger and Guthrie and the rest to add their voice to what was fast becoming a major movement. The powers that be felt threatened by the movement and its momentum was lost as the `Red Scare' swept away any liberal minded artists and individuals.
Seeger, however, managed to emerge again in the late Fifties and early Sixties to help usher in a new wave of protest song with artists like Bob Dylan taking the message and spreading it across the world.
Although the songs on this collection are from a bygone era the messages they convey and the struggles they highlight are still scarily relevant in today's world and remind of us a time when people thought music really could make a difference to peoples lives and attitudes.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Many of these songs can be found on various Smithsonian-Folkways and other releases, and quite a few turn up on the Bear Family's exhaustive but prohibitively expensive Songs for Political Action box set. It's great to have them available on a reasonably priced and knowledgeably compiled collection. The usual suspects - Woody, Pete, Leadbelly, Josh White - are all present and politically correct (or not, depending on your ideological viewpoint). The 60 tracks are mostly circa the Second World War - more than 60 years old, but all well worth preserving. The best songs here - Leadbelly's The Bourgeois Blues, Josh White's Jim Crow Train, Brownie McGhee's Black, Brown and White - are superb, but even the ones with less artistic value are historically significant. (A track or two by Paul Robeson wouldn't have gone astray, though.) And the excellent DVD is the icing on the cake. An ideal collection for anyone with the slightest interest in 20th century protest music.
1 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Satisfied with this product. However, more detailed specifications and sample listening of random listings would have been further appreciated.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Listening to old recordings
7 Feb 2010
Format:Audio CD
Old recordings that were recorded before modern electronic devices means that they are usually scratchy and sound like they are in a tunnel. This is the way much of the blues music was recorded be archivists of the '30s, '40s & '50s. It is the only record we have, so don't expect to hear today's quality from old sources. Just enjoy them as music history.
0 of 21 people found the following review helpful
epapp1
23 Jan 2010
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Terrible.It's like listing too some old 75's that had been cleaned with a brillo pad.
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