Work Songs & So On presents:

The Edge Of AmericanaWork Songs & So On

 

Work songs to give away tickets to Joe Hill's Last Will, a performance by John McCutcheon taking place this Friday, June 19th at VCU, presented by the Richmond Peace Education Center.

 

Engineers, Farmers, Miners, Mill Workers, Soldiers, Bakers, and more!

Enjoy!

JOTTO

Artist / Song / Album / Label

Gid Tanner & Band / Work Don’t Bother Me (1930) / Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, And End Time Music, 1923 – 1936 / Tompkins Square
Woody Guthrie / Hard Travelin’ / My Dusty Road / Rounder
Randall Hylton / Coal Town Saturday Night / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Applachian Coalfields, Volume 1 / Full Lights
Larry & Gary Keel / The Old Spinning Wheel / Keel Brothers, Vol 1 / Self
Adam Hurt & Beth Williams Hartness / Speed the Plow / Fine Times at Our House / Self

The Almanac Singers / Union Maid / Songs Of Protest / Prism
Merle Haggard / Workin’ Man Blues / The Studio Recordings, 1969 – 1976 [Disc 1] / Bear Family
Hillmen / Winsborough Cotton Mill Blues / The Hillmen / Sugar Hill
John Jackson / John Henry / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / Arhoolie
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions / The Monkey and the Engineer / 1964 07 Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions / Grateful Dead
Jimmy Martin / Truck Driving Man / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1954 – 1974 / Bear Family
David Grisman / Clinch Mountain Windmills (With Bela Fleck, banjo) / Dawg Duos / Acoustic

Rob McNurlin & Kim Johnson / Gospel Plow / Super Hillbilly Hits for Guitar & Banjo / Wise Krack
The Johnson Mountain Boys / Duncan & Brady (He’s Been On The Job Too Long) / Blue Diamond / Rebel
Dori Freeman / Workin on the Building / Those on The Moon / Self
The Wilders / Kansas City Star / Spring a Leak / Rural Grit
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper / I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow / Midnight Special, Volume 1 / Bear Family
Carolina Tar Heels / There Ain’t No Use Workin’ So Hard / Victor 20544 / Victor
Norman Blake / Cloverdale Plantation March / Wood, Wire & Words / Plectraphone

Doc Watson / Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms / The Vanguard Years / Vanguard
Doc Watson / Dream of The Miner’s Child / My Dear Old Southern Home / Sugar Hill
Doc Watson / Spike Driver Blues (Live) / The Vanguard Years / Vanguard
Charlie Poole / The Brave Engineer / With the North Carolina Ramblers and the Highlanders #A / JSP
Hobo Jack Adkins / Thirty Inch Coal / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Applachian Coalfields, Volume One / Full Lights
Six Jumping Jacks / Where Do You Work-A John? / Vol. 1-Six Jumping Jacks / Document
The Louvin Brothers / I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow / Close Harmony / Bear Family
Jordan Tice / Salad Days / Long Story / Patuxent

Lee Sexton / Angeline The Baker / Lee Sexton / Field Recorder’s Collective
Uncle Eck Dunford / Angeline The Baker / Bristol Sessions / Bear Family
George Pegram / Workin’ On A Building / George Pegram / Rounder
Brother Grady Coffee / I’m Working on a Building / This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45rpm, 1957 – 1982 [Disc 2] / Tompkins Square
Bumper Jacksons / Red Silk Stockings / Too Big World / Self
Joe Maphis / Banjo Workout / 1956 Traditional Banjo Music of the Ozarks / Legacy
Uncle Dave Macon / Working for My Lord / Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy / Bear Family
Bumper Jacksons / Pretty Mama Put a Spell On Me / Too Big World / Self
Magnolia Serenaders / Cotton Pickers Drag / Saturday Night Breakdown / Self

Louis Killen, Jeff Warner, Gerret Warner & Fud Benson / Topman And The Afterguard / Steady as She Goes: Songs and Chanties from the Days of Comm / Folkways
Bill Monroe / Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy / Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936 – 1949 [Disc 1] / Bear Family
The Bluegrass Album Band / Big Spike Hammer / The Bluegrass Album Disc Vol. 2 / Rounder
Wade Mainer / Building On That Rock / 1961 King Session / King
Jimmy Martin / Brakeman’s Blues / Don’t Cry to Me – Songs from the Film “King of Bluegrass” / Thrill Jockey
Lightnin’ Washington & Group / Hammer Ring / Alan Lomax Collection: Big Brazos, Deep River of Song / Rounder
Mason Williams / Whistle While You Work / 1956 Traditional Banjo Music of the Ozarks / Legacy

Josh Bearman

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    June 16th, 2015

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