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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Links on the Chain - The Broadside Singers, Phil Ochs | |||
| 2. Blowin' in the Wind - The New World Singers | |||
| 3. Paths of Victory - The Broadside Singers | |||
| 4. Ballad of Ira Hayes - Peter La Farge | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. John Brown - Bob Dylan | |||
| 2. Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew) - Bonnie Dobson | |||
| 3. Willing Conscript - Pete Seeger | |||
| 4. Kill for Peace - The Fugs | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone | |||
| 2. We'll Never Turn Back - The Freedom Singers | |||
| 3. Freedom Riders - Phil Ochs | |||
| 4. Father's Grace - The Broadside Singers | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Pinkville Helicopter - Thom Parrott | |||
| 2. Hell No, I Ain't Going Go - Matt Jones, Elaine Laron | |||
| 3. We Seek No Wider War - Phil Ochs | |||
| 4. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger | |||
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| Disc: 5 | |||
| 1. Burn, Baby, Bur - Jim Collier, Jim Collier, Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick | |||
| 2. Cities Are Burning - Jim Collier, Jim Collier, Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick | |||
| 3. Nothing But His Blood - Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick | |||
| 4. You're Just a Laughing Fool - Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick | |||
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Product Description
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Historically, a broadside was a song (without music) or poem printed on one side of paper, dealing with a topical issue, usually of a political nature. Broadsides were peddled by itinerant writers for a few cents, and their message served to spread the news or perhaps create a controversy about a current event.
In 1962, Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, began publication of Broadside, a topical song magazine that would quickly help start a national movement in the US. After the Eisenhower Cold War 1950s, a social, cultural, and political revolution was in the air. Broadside began publishing hundreds of songs of social dissatisfaction by musicians who later became the leading lights of the folk and protest movements. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Paxton, Pete Seeger and dozens more all had their songs first published in Broadside.
This five-CD set is a marvellously comprehensive document of the magazine's songs and songwriters, all of whom were recorded by Folkways Records. The lyric of each is printed and extensive information given about the context in which the song was created. Background material is provided on all the songwriters, as well.
The discs are compiled primarily around the main topics: Labour, Nuclear Weapons, Social Injustice, Vietnam, and Civil Rights. Eighty-nine songs in all are featured, most of which could loosely be termed "folk music" in style: basic rhythms, acoustic instruments, spirited singers. Listening to the songs and following the annotation are reminders of an era of potent protest in this country when music really mattered, and the songs themselves were the primary means of expressing dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
Broadside was a small publication, primarily a labour of love, but its historic legacy looms large when all its material is brought together in a well-researched, well-presented compilation such as this one. --Wally Shoup
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In the early 1960s the magazine Broadside was dedicated to publishing the lyrics to and articles about what were then known as protest songs, part of a long tradition in folk. These addressed, among other topics: war, accepted social mores, racism, the environment, social injustice, and the struggles of workers and immigrants. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds and more got their first exposure from Broadside.
BEST OF BROADSIDE documents a non-commercial folk movement(some might call it underground) that addressed the aforementioned topics where popular media did not. The spectrum of styles is broad as American music itself: the deceptively agreeable Phil Ochs, Dylan (known here as "Blind Boy Grunt"), and Janis Ian; the passionate blues-drenched gospel of Reverend Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick; the raunchy folk-rock of the Fugs (the proto-punk "Kill For Peace"); and the embryonic soul sounds of the Human Condition and Nina Simone. For the sheer scope represented here, BEST OF BROADSIDE is essential for the devotee of American folk music and its part in the tumultuous history of the '60s.
BEST OF BROADSIDE documents a non-commercial folk movement(some might call it underground) that addressed the aforementioned topics where popular media did not. The spectrum of styles is broad as American music itself: the deceptively agreeable Phil Ochs, Dylan (known here as "Blind Boy Grunt"), and Janis Ian; the passionate blues-drenched gospel of Reverend Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick; the raunchy folk-rock of the Fugs (the proto-punk "Kill For Peace"); and the embryonic soul sounds of the Human Condition and Nina Simone. For the sheer scope represented here, BEST OF BROADSIDE is essential for the devotee of American folk music and its part in the tumultuous history of the '60s.
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