The Edge of Americana/Time Again Radio presents:
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
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
Hazel Dickens, “The Yablonski Murder”
from Music of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields
Lonesome Pine - 2007
Murph Gribble, John Lusk, & Albert York, “Altamont”
from Altamont: Black Stringband Music
Rounder - 1989
Wilmer Watts & His Lonely Eagles, “Been on the Job Too Long”
from The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records
Third Man - 1929
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
The Carter Family, “When the World's On Fire”
from The Carter Family 1927 - 1934 Disc A
JSP Records / The Orchard - 2007
Our Native Daughters, “Better Git Yer Learnin’ (feat. Rhiannon Giddens)”
from Songs of Our Native Daughters
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2019
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
Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, and Ivor Melton, “Tom Dooley”
Folkways Records - 1962
John Hammond, “Pretty Polly”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
Danny Knicely & Will Lee, “Footsteps So Near”
from Murders, Drownings and Lost Loves: The Roots of Country
Mapleshade - 2006
Lead Belly, “The Scottsboro Boys”
from Power To The People - Protest Songs
Master Classics Records - 2009
Riley Puckett, “Waitin' for the Evening Mail (feat. Lowe Stokes)”
from Riley Puckett (Doxy Collection)
Doxy - 2014
Mass Meeting Participants In Hattiesburg, MS, “Freedom Now Chant”
from Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2009
Hollow Rock String Band, “John Brown's March / Green Fields of America / Hop Light Ladies”
Rebel Records - 1997
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
Woody Guthrie, “Tear the Fascists Down”
from My Dusty Road
Universal Music Group International - 2009
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves, “Beaufort County Jail”
from Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Free Dirt Records - 2019
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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