Welcome to the Labor Day edition of the Lost Music Saloon.  

 

Hard to believe that yet another summer has gone by, but here it is – – September 1st.  In recognition of the holiday, I'll be airing songs about working men and women…truck drivers and waitresses; farmers and outlaws; soldiers and coal miners; yuppies and welfare mothers; unions and strikes; folks who are making it here, and folks who ain't.  

 

Click on 'read more' below for tonight's playlist.

 

 

Lost Music Saloon: PLAYLIST: September 1, 2014: 5-7:00 p.m.: Labor Day

 

The Vogues: Five O'Clock World

James McMurtry: We Can't Make It Here

Tennessee Ernie Ford: 16 Tons

Cory Branan: The Prettiest Waitress in Memphis

 

John Conlee: Working Man

The Almanac Singers: Talking Union

Terri Hendrix: Monopoly

The New Harmony Sisterhood Band: Union Maids

5 Chinese Brothers: She's a Waitress (And I'm in Love)

 

Steve Earle: Copperhead Road

Johnny Paycheck: Take This Job and Shove It

Rodney Crowell: The Obscenity Prayer (Give It To Me)

Joe Glazer: Automation

Randy Newman: Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)

Adam Carroll: AFL-CIO

Bob Dylan: Pretty Boy Floyd

 

Lee Dorsey: Working in the Coal Mine

Little Feat: Truck Stop Girl

The Bottle Rockets: Welfare Music

Kenny Winfree: I'm a Union Card

The Waifs: The Waitress

 

Ed Pettersen: Gather the Family 'Round

David Rovics: Minimum Wage Strike

Hard Working Americans: Blackland Farmer

Jim Croce: Workin' at the Car Wash Blues

Old Crow Medicine Show: Levi

Anne Feener: We Just Come To Work Here

Zoe Muth & Her Lost High Rollers: Tired Worker's Song

Elaine Purkey: One Day More

 

Stan Swiniarski: They Called Me an American

Bruce Springsteen: Factory

Flogging Molly (w/Lucinda Williams): Factory Girls

 

Seldom Scene: Hail To the Redskins

 

Garry, DJ

Lost Music Saloon

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