The Edge of Americana/Time Again Radio presents:
State Violence
Feeling a little helpless and useless in this particular moment. Feeling like burning lots of it all down might be the best thing.
Songs of protest, violence, police, jails, and maybe some hope if we make it that far.
JB
Show Archive
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Cisco Houston, “The Preacher and the Slave (Pie In the Sky)”
from Cisco Houston Sings Songs of the Open Road
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
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Hazel Dickens, “The Yablonski Murder”
from Music of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields
Lonesome Pine - 2007
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Murph Gribble, John Lusk, & Albert York, “Altamont”
from Altamont: Black Stringband Music
Rounder - 1989
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Wilmer Watts & His Lonely Eagles, “Been on the Job Too Long”
from The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records
Third Man - 1929
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Ollis Martin, “Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down”
from Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You've Never Heard
World Music Network - 2018
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The Carter Family, “When the World's On Fire”
from The Carter Family 1927 - 1934 Disc A
JSP Records / The Orchard - 2007
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Our Native Daughters, “Better Git Yer Learnin’ (feat. Rhiannon Giddens)”
from Songs of Our Native Daughters
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2019
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The Stanley Brothers, “He Will Set Your Fields On Fire”
from Stanley Series Vol. 3 #3 (1958-05-04) - Sunset Park, West Grove, PA)
Copper Creek - 1958
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Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, and Ivor Melton, “Tom Dooley”
Folkways Records - 1962
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John Hammond, “Pretty Polly”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
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Danny Knicely & Will Lee, “Footsteps So Near”
from Murders, Drownings and Lost Loves: The Roots of Country
Mapleshade - 2006
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Lead Belly, “The Scottsboro Boys”
from Power To The People - Protest Songs
Master Classics Records - 2009
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Riley Puckett, “Waitin' for the Evening Mail (feat. Lowe Stokes)”
from Riley Puckett (Doxy Collection)
Doxy - 2014
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Mass Meeting Participants In Hattiesburg, MS, “Freedom Now Chant”
from Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2009
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Hollow Rock String Band, “John Brown's March / Green Fields of America / Hop Light Ladies”
Rebel Records - 1997
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Blind Alfred Reed, “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2006
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Woody Guthrie, “Tear the Fascists Down”
from My Dusty Road
Universal Music Group International - 2009
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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, “Beaufort County Jail”
from Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Free Dirt Records - 2019
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Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land”
from Buffalo Skinners: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1999
joshbearman The Edge of Americana/Time Again Radio June 1st, 2020
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