"DOWN HOME" #133 Saturday, September 2, 2000 Hosted by Chuck Taggart, email chuck (at) downhome (dot) org Visit The Gumbo Pages

It's the "Down Home" (almost) annual Labor Day Special: Songs about working and the labor movement. WOODY GUTHRIE - Jackhammer Blues RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT - If I Were A Carpenter BILLY BRAGG - There is Power in a Union PETE SEEGER - Joe Hill RON KAVANA - A Living Wage THE IGUANAS - My Girlfriend is a Waitress UNCLE TUPELO - Coalminers HAZEL DICKENS - Black Lung LEE DORSEY - Workin' in a Coal Mine PATRICK STREET - Only a Miner BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Rovin' Dies Hard RICHARD THOMPSON - Time to Ring Some Changes PLANXTY - The Good Ship Kangaroo DICK GAUGHAN - Workers' Song CHRISTY MOORE - Don't Forget Your Shovel GRATEFUL DEAD - Cumberland Blues MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT - Spike Driver Blues JOHN JACKSON - John Henry PETE SEEGER - Casey Jones the Union Scab REBECCA KING JONES - Chimbly Sweeper THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? BEAUSOLEIL - Travailler, C'est Trop Dûr (Working is Too Hard) CLIFTON CHENIER - Je Suis un Recolteur (I'm a Farmer) PAUL SANCHEZ - Hey Bartender PETER CASE - Workin' Man Can't Get Nowhere Today LONESOME RIVER BAND - Swing that Hammer HAZEL DICKENS - Coal Mining Woman

 

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