The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio presents:
Songs of class struggle and workers supporting workers, unlike certain other modern compositions that punch down for some reason.
Enjoy, comrades
JB
Pete Steele, “The Song of Hard Times”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1958
Hazel Dickens, “They'll Never Keep Us Down”
from Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
Rounder - 1980
Pete Seeger, “There Is Mean Things Happening In This Land”
from Gazette, Vol. 1
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 2004
Joe Williams, “Providence Help the Poor People”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Vol. 2
Yazoo - 1998
Edward L. Crain, “Starving To Death On a Government Claim”
from Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Vol. 1
Yazoo - 2006
Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, “New Money”
from Fiddlin Doc Roberts Vol. 1 1925 - 1928
Document Records - 1999
Woody Guthrie, “A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week”
from Struggle
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1990
Barbara Dane, “Working People's Blues”
from Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2018
John Haywood, “Hard Times”
from Haywood Banjo Volume 3 With Ponty's Camper & Rats On The Railroad
self-released - 2007
The McIntosh County Shouters, “Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit”
from Spirituals and Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2017
Frank Wheeler & Monroe Lamb, “The Farmer Feeds Them All”
Montgomery Ward - 1930
Florence Reece & The Almanac Singers, “Which Side Are You On?”
from Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2006
Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller, “Hungry Faint and Poor”
from Deep End Sessions, Vol. II
Deep End Sessions - 2015
Ragtime Skedaddlers, “Easy Money”
from The Latest Popular Mandolin and Guitar Music
Mandophone - 2014
Blind Alfred Reed, “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live”
from Blind Alfred Reed (1927-1929)
Document Records - 1998
Special Ed and the Shortbus, “Don't Worry 'Bout the Poor”
from Ground Beef Patrol
Special Ed and the Shortbus - 2007
The Dixon Brothers, “How Can a Broke Man Be Happy?”
from Dixon Brothers Vol. 2 (1937)
Document Records - 1999
Woody Guthrie, “1913 Massacre”
from Hard Travelin': The Asch Recordings Vol. 3
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1998
David McCarn, “Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2)”
from Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music (1923-1936)
Tompkins Square - 2013
The New Lost City Ramblers, “Poor Old Dirt Farmer”
from 40 Years of Concert Performances (Live)
New Rounder - 2001
Billy Bragg, “Rich Men Earning North of a Million”
from Rich Men Earning North of a Million
Billy Bragg - 2023
joshbearman The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio August 21st, 2023
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