Classic Protest Songs: From Smithsonian Folkways

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Freedom Now Chant (mass-meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
[no artist]0:30
2Jesus Christ
guitar:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1944-04)
vocals:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1944-04)
recording of:
Jesus Christ (in 1944-04)
additional lyricist:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
writer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
Woody Guthrie2:41
3Bourgeois Blues
guitar:
Lead Belly
vocals:
Lead Belly
recording of:
The Bourgeois Blues
lyricist and composer:
Lead Belly
arranger:
Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax
Lead Belly2:22
4Black, Brown and WhiteBig Bill Broonzy2:46
5Baby, I've Been ThinkingJanis Ian2:46
6Blowing in the Wind
vocals:
Bob Cohen (vocals, guitar, folk), Delores Dixon, Happy Traum and Gil Turner
The New World Singers2:32
7This Land Is Your LandSteve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee & Mark Dann4:43
8Turn, Turn, TurnLiz Getz3:08
9As Long as the Grass Will GrowPeter La Farge5:11
10Talking Pay TVPhil Ochs2:37
11Masters of WarThe Bergerfolk4:11
12Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
banjo:
Pete Seeger (on 1967-11-21)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (on 1967-11-21)
recording of:
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
lyricist:
Pete Seeger
composer:
Pete Seeger (in 1967)
Pete Seeger3:01
13Agent OrangePeggy Seeger3:55
14Strange FruitBrother John Sellers2:24
15How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
banjo:
Tom Paley
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Mike Seeger
The New Lost City Ramblers3:38
16I'm Going to Write the Governor of Georgia
recording engineer:
Moses Asch (in 1946)
piano:
Champion Jack Dupree (in 1946)
vocals:
Champion Jack Dupree (in 1946)
Champion Jack Dupree3:17
17When We Make It ThroughBarbara Dane5:28
18Evicted TenantSis Cunningham2:11
19Corrido de César Chávez
classical guitar [Spanish guitar]:
David Maestas
vocals:
David Maestas, Lorenzo Martinez (Chicano folk singer) and Miguel Gabriel Vázquez
Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo3:06
20Gone, Gone, Gone
Red Shadow2:18
21Spirits of the RevolutionLarry Estridge5:12
22We Shall OvercomeGuy Carawan3:40

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