Featured Selections

Don't Mourn--Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill - A compilation of 14 songs by and about Joe Hill performed by Billy Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Joe Glazer, Si Kahn, Utah Phillips, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and more, as well as an excerpt from a speech by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Includes "The Preacherand the Slave," "Casey Jones," "Mr. Block," and "There is Power in a Unions." -- $17.00

Rebel Voices - Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World performed by the members of Entertainment Workers IU 630, IWW (1987). Featuring Bob Bovee, Bruce Brackney, Jeff Cahill, J.B. Freeman, Eric Glatz, Fred Holstein, Robin Oye, Faith Petric, Utah Phillips, Mark Ross, Kathy Taylor, Marion Wade. -- $15.00

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• 1. Preamble to the IWW Constitution - Utah Phillips
• 2. The Organizer (Cahill) - Jeff Cahill & Mark Ross
• 3. Little Red Hen (Malvina Reynolds) - Faith Petric
• 4. Which Side Are You On (Florence Reese) - Bob Bovee
• 5. The Two Bums (IWW) - Utah Phillips
• 6. Banks of Marble (Les Rice) - Fred Holstein
• 7. Put it on the Ground (Ray Glaser, Bill Wolff) - Marion Wade
• 8. The Popular Wobbly (T Bone Slim) - Eric Glatz
• 9. Song of the Rail (adopted from a poem by Ralph Chaplin, music by mark Ross) - Mark Ross
• 10. Hold the Fort (traditional; arranged by the IWW) - Bruce Brackney
• 11. We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years (unknown) - Bruce Brackney
• 12. Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (Elliot Keenan) - Faith Petric & Mark Ross
• 13. Hallelujah I'm a Bum (Haywire Mac) - Bob Bovee
• 14. The Boss (Wobbly Doxology) - Utah Phillips
• 15. The Preacher & The Slave (Long Haired Preachers) (Joe Hill) - Jeff Cahill, Mark Ross, and Robin Oye
• 16. Mysteries of a Hobo's Life (T-Bone Slim) - Mark Ross
• 17. Stung Right (Joe Hill) - Fred Holstein
• 18. Joe Hill's Last Will (Joe Hill) - Kathy Taylor & Robin Oye
• 19. Mr. Block (Joe Hill) - Utah Phillips & Mark Ross
• 20. Power in the Union (Joe Hill) - Everybody

Fred Alpi

Fred Alpi - es Chiens Mangent -- $15.00

• 1. Un philosophe sans pensée
• 2. Utopies d.aujourd.hui
• 3. La ballade de John Massis
• 4. Macho Féministe
• 5. Les chiens mangent les chiens
• 6. Jean-François B, social-démocrate
• 7. Ton nom en rouge dans mon carnet noir
• 8. Maigre comme un couteau
• 9. Le vent glacé
• 10. Il y a ma vie
• 11. Novembre (on s.verra en)
• 12. Equinoxe
• 13. Sången om Joe Hill

Fred Alpi - Ici & Maintenant -- $15.00

• 1. Information
• 2. Je serai là quand tu veux
• 3. La peste (Le retour)
• 4. One man's luck is the other man's pain
• 5. Chanson pour Joe Hill
• 6. Citoyen du monde
• 7. 4 jours
• 8. Entreprise dieu & fils
• 9. Ici & maintenant
• 10. L'heure bleue
• 11. 2 cylindres et 4 temps
• 12. Aujourd'hui

Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips

Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips - Fellow Workers - "Ani DiFranco got me down to New Orleans to work with her and the gang on this collection of labor songs and stories intended to give those just entering the labor market some idea of where unions come from and why we need them today. Though I occasionally wax pontifical, Ani exuberantly leavens the whole affair with ingenious instrumental and vocal arrangements that make the old songs come alive again and, yes, rock." -- $15.00

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• 1. Joe Hill (instrumental)
• 2. Stupid's Song
• 3. The Most Dangerous Woman
• 4. Stupid's Pledge
• 5. Direct Action
• 6. Pie In The Sky
• 7. Shoot Or Stab Them
• 8. Lawrence
• 9. Bread And Roses
• 10. Why Come?
• 11. Unless You Are Free
• 12. I Will Not Obey
• 13. The Long Memory
• 14. The Silence That Is Me
• 15. Joe Hill
• 16. The Saw-playing Musician
• 17. Dump The Bosses Off Your Back
• 18. The Internationale

Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips - The Past Didn't Go Anywhere - "Ani DiFranco wrote me to say she had listened to a tape of my songs and stories and wanted her young audience to hear some of them. Said they might do 'em some good. So I gathered up a hundred hours or so of my live concert tapes picked over the last twenty years, and shipped them off. Ani listened to all of it, picked out (to my way of thinking) just the right stories, and surrounded them with her own extraordinary sounds weaving in and out the way a flock of wild birds define a salt marsh." -- $17.00

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• 1. Bridges
• 2. Nevada City, California
• 3. Korea
• 4. Anarchy
• 5. Candidacy
• 6. Bum on the Rod
• 7. Enormously Wealthy
• 8. Mess With People
• 9. Natural Resources
• 10. Heroes
• 11. Half a Ghost Town
• 12. Holding On

Anne Feeney

Anne Feeney & Chris Chandler - Flying Poetry Circus - A theatrical collage of songs, labor preaching, and wandering minstrel show performed by two veteran troubadours.

"Our new full length CD features seven of our most requested performance pieces (each is approximately six minutes long) - starting with the lively Chandler classic "The United States of Generica" - with some great fiddle playing by Bob Banerjee adding to the mix. Next is "Credit History" - a piece for all the financially over-extended seeking salvation through consumption. Then the fabulous "Prozac" -- you can't medicate your way out of all this! Then the chilling blend of the traditional Irish piece "Step It Out Mary" with the Chandler classic "Innocence." Next is "Carnivals" - a look at the new administration. An old favorite "Fast Food Confederacy" is given some a cappella gospel treatment, and closing things out, the dynamic "Things Have Never Been the Same." -- $15.00

Anne Feeney . Union Maid - 23 union and work songs from the woman Utah Phillips calls "the best labor singer in North America." Energizing, inspiring, true songs that should be in the home of every member of the working class... especially union members! This is the CD to have in your player on the way to the rally -- $15.00

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• 1. War on the Workers
• 2. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
• 3. Whatever Happened to the 8 Hour Day?
• 4. We Just Come to Work Here
• 5. National Health Care Now!
• 6. We Do the Work
• 7. Scabs
• 8. Union Maid
• 9. Bread and Roses
• 10. Solidarity Forever
• 11. School Days End
• 12. Your Nursing Heart
• 13. I'm Gonna Be an Engineer
• 14. Do-Re-MI
• 15. Fannie Sellins
• 16. Which Side Are You On?
• 17. Are My Hands Clean?
• 18. After School
• 19. Punch It In
• 20. The Victim Gets the Blame
• 21. The Sick Note
• 22. The U.S. Steal Song
• 23. Praise Boss

Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie - Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti - Woody Guthrie was one of the twentieth century's greatest poets and songwriters, and his songs about Sacco and Vanzetti include some of his best songs. The murder trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was one of this century's most controversial. Sacco and Vanzetti's story was dramatic; their front-page trial was filled with dubious procedures; and the years of appeals and their eventual execution led to protests around the world. These songs, written and recorded nearly twenty years later, have been carefully remastered from the original acetate discs and are presented with a previously unpublished letter by Guthrie to the judge in the case. Produced by Moses Asch. Reissue compiled by Anthony Seeger and Jeff Place. -- $17.00

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• 1. Flood and the Storm, The
• 2. Two Good Men (Sacco and Vanzetti)
• 3. I Just Want to Sing Your Name
• 4. Red Wine
• 5. Suassos Lane
• 6. You Souls of Boston
• 7. Old Judge Thayer
• 8. Vanzetti's Rock
• 9. Vanzetti's Letter
• 10. Root Hog and Die
• 11. We Welcome to Heaven
• 12. Sacco's Letter to His Son

Woodie Guthrie - Struggle - This recording was issued at Guthrie's insistence that there be a series of records depicting the struggle of working people to realize their vision and to secure their rights. He dedicated these 12 songs to his wife Marjorie Guthrie and to Pete Seeger. Moses Asch reissued the record to commemorate the United States Bicenntenial. -- $17.00

Ella Jenkins

Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together CD - Children's songs and poems on unity, cooperation and unions. Recorded with band and chorus, 27 selections, includes 16-page booklet -- $17.00

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger - American Industrial Ballads - Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music -- $15.00

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• 1. Peg and Awl
• 2. Blind Fiddler, The
• 3. Buffalo Skinners
• 4. Eight-Hour Day
• 5. Hard Times in the Mill
• 6. Roll Down the Line
• 7. Hayseed Like Me, A
• 8. Farmer is the Man, The (Who Feeds Us All)
• 9. Come All You Hardy Miners
• 10. He Lies in the American Land
• 11. Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
• 12. Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
• 13. Cotton Mill Colic
• 14. Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
• 15. Mill Mother's Lament
• 16. Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
• 17. Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
• 18. Death of Harry Simms, The
• 19. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
• 20. Ballad of Barney Graham, The
• 21. My Children are Seven in Number
• 22. Raggedy
• 23. Pittsburgh Town
• 24. Sixty Percent

Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle - For over 50 years Pete Seeger's music has included songs on labor, civil rights, peace, and the hope for a better world. This CD contains 24 tracks selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and 2 new songs recorded especially for this collection. Pete plays the 5-string banjo and the 12-string guitar, and appears on some tracks with Almanac Singers and his grandson Tao Rodriguez. Booklet contains detailed notes by Mark Greenberg and a complete discography of Pete Seeger on Folkways. 71 minutes -- $17.00

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• 1. If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
• 2. Banks of Marble
• 3. Which Side are You On?
• 4. Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
• 5. Talking Union
• 6. Joe Hill
• 7. Union Maid
• 8. Step by Step
• 9. Solidarity Forever
• 10. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
• 11. Talking Atom (Old Man Atom)
• 12. Crow on the Cradle
• 13. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
• 14. Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)
• 15. Bourgeois Blues
• 16. River of My People
• 17. Hold On (Keep Your Hand on the Plow)
• 18. We Shall Overcome
• 19. He Lies in the American Land
• 20. Well May the World Go
• 21. Turn, Turn, Turn
• 22. Tommorow is a Highway
• 23. Had I a Golden Thread
• 24. We'll All Be A-Doubling
• 25. Arrange and Rearrange
• 26. If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)

Seeds - The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 - Includes recent performances by Pete of songs that he penned, adapted or adopted, including some recent ones not previously recorded ("Trouble at the Bottom," "Visions of Children," "Sower of Seeds," and "Take It from Dr. King"). On Pete's first new release since 1996's Grammy-winning Pete, he performs solo, with family (grandson and frequent concert accompanist Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and half-sister Peggy Seeger), and musical friends (including solo artists Arlo Guthrie, Anne Hills, and Tom Pacheco). The second disc presents exclusive recordings of Seeger's songs by a diverse roster of highly respected folk artists. Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, Natalie Merchant, Holly Near and Pete's fellow ex-Weaver Ronnie Gilbert, Dick Gaughan ("the Scottish Woody Guthrie"), singer-songwriter and Emmy nominated actress Michele Greene and others explore some of the lesser-known entries in the Seeger repertoire. The package includes a 28-page booklet with extensive liner notes by Pete on the inspiration and history of each song and by Musselman, who has spent countless hours with Seeger in creating the entire three-volume collection. Perhaps the most controversial composition on Seeds is "Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)," an update of one of Seeger's anti-Vietnam songs that he now applies to the invasion of Iraq. Joined by guest vocalists and fellow activists Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco and Steve Earle, Pete decries blind jingoistic patriotism while rejoicing in America's freedom of speech and thought. Seeds contains a live version of Pete and his audience singing "Over the Rainbow," as well as a collaboration between the song's lyricist, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, and Seeger on "Odds On Favorite." Disc one closes with the tranquil "Sailing Down My Golden River," in which Pete's vocal is backed by an orchestra arranged by noted film-scorer Michael Kamen with creative input from Pink Floyd's leader/guitarist David Gilmour. Sprinkled throughout Seeds are several brief spoken comments by Pete that emphasize his philosophy of life: everyone can make a difference in the world and has the right and the duty to do so. -- $15.00

Utah Phillips (Solo)

Utah Phillips - Good Though! -- $15.00

This is the first recording I made after leaving Utah in 1969. The songs, homemade and traditional, tell about the tramping I did on the western freight trains over the years. Mixed in, you'll hear the sounds of steam railroading (whistles, clanks, groans, and barking dogs). "Good Though" also contains the tale "Moose Turd Pie," which will likely haunt me to my grave. This recording is just about the favorite thing I ever did.

"If you're looking for the real McCoy, the undiluted Utah Phillips wit and wisdom, "Good Though" is cause for celebration."

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• 1. Cannonball Blues
• 2. Queen of the Rails
• 3. Going Away
• 4. Frisco Road
• 5. Starlight on the Rails
• 6. Calling Trains
• 7. Daddy, What's a Train?
• 8. Moose Turd Pie
• 9. Old Buddy Goodnight
• 10. Phoebe Snow
• 11. Nickle Plate Road No. 759
• 12. Wabash Cannonball/Tolono

Utah Phillips - I've Got To Know -- $15.00

During the Gulf War, I got plenty good and mad. I parked my car and wouldn't drive it because I said it wouldn't run on blood. Then, with the help of Dakota Sid Clifford, I went into a small but very fine studio here in Nevada City. I said to Bruce Wheelock, the engineer, "Set up two mikes and start the tape. I'll tell you when I'm done." For the next seventy minutes I spouted, fulminated, and sang about war, peace, pacifism, and anarchy. I used songs, poems, and rants to make the point, and said, "Okay, turn off the machine." Bruce said, "Don't you want me to edit it?" I said, "No! I'm mad! Leave it the way it is!"

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• 1. Stupid's Pledge
• 2. I've Got To Know
• 3. Sedition
• 4. General, Your Tank
• 5. Yellow Ribbon
• 6. Yellow Legs & Pugs
• 7. I Love My Flag
• 8. Scribner on the Draft
• 9. Killing Ground
• 10. Learning
• 11. Riding the Peace Train
• 12. Trooper's Lament
• 13. Victory Stuff
• 14. Mountan Valley Home
• 15. Michael
• 16. The Soldier's Return
• 17. Was it You?
• 18. Lord, Ain't it Sad?
• 19. What is a Pacifist?
• 20. I Will Not Obey
• 21. The Violence Within
• 22. Judas Ram
• 23. Truman Cactus
• 24. There Shall Come Soft Rains
• 25. Enola Gay
• 26. Wife of Flanders
• 27. Rice and Beans
• 28. Ain't it Fine
• 29. Revolt in the Desert
• 30. Stand to Your Glasses Steady
• 31. How to Live in Peace
• 32. This Here River
• 33. Huddled Chickens

Utah Phillips - The Telling Takes Me Home -- $15.00

"Years ago I first recorded with Philo Records in North Ferrisburg, Vermont. I was living in a railroad caboose at the time. When Philo became part of Rounder Records, two of my Philo recordings were reissued as cassette tapes only. Now I have combined "El Capitan" and "All Used Up" into one CD called "The Telling Takes Me Home." "El Capitan" is made up of homemade songs about my West, new and old. "All Used Up" consists of songs I made up about where the skid rows came from and what happens there now. The two blend together into a natural whole.

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• 1. The Telling Takes Me Home
• 2. The Goodnight-Loving Trail
• 3. John D. Lee
• 4. Dog Canyon
• 5. Johnny Thurman
• 6. Pig Hollow
• 7. Jesse's Corrido
• 8. Enola Gay
• 9. Rock Me To Sleep
• 10. Larimer Street
• 11. Stupid's Song (I Have Led A Good Life)
• 12. Scott's Creek Bluff
• 13. Weepy Doesn't Know
• 14. Yuba City
• 15. I Remember Loving You
• 16. Dancers
• 17. Room For The Poor
• 18. Eddy's Song
• 19. All Used Up
• 20. She'll Never Be Mine

Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All (for) a Thousand Years (1983) - Like Woody Guthrie before him, Utah Phillips is a folksinger who knows that a song can be a powerful weapon in the politics of class struggle. On this album he performs songs from the celebrated "Little Red Songbook" of the Industrial Workers of the World. -- $15.00

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• 1. The Boss (Wobbly Doxology)
• 2. We Have Fed You All (for) a Thousand Years
• 3. Sheep and Goats
• 4. The Timberbeast's Lament
• 5. Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
• 6. The Lumberjack's Prayer
• 7. Mr. Block
• 8. The Preacher and the Slave (Long Haired Preachers)
• 9. The Popular Wobbly
• 10. Casey Jones, the Union Scab
• 11. Where the Fraser River Flows
• 12. Bread and Roses
• 13. Joe Hill
• 14. Union Burying Ground
• 15. The Two Bums
• 16. Hallelujah I'm a Bum!
• 17. Solidarity Forever
• 18. There is Power in a Union

El Vez

El Vez - Gracialand -- $15.00

• 1. If You Wanna Hear Me Holler Lick Me Up Some Dollars
• 2. See You Next Weekend - (featuring Jimmy Lewis)
• 3. Hi Class, Lo Class, & No Class - (featuring Jimmy Lewis)
• 4. Fresh Out Of Tears
• 5. I've Had It With You
• 6. Freddy This Freddy That
• 7. Good Little House Wife
• 8. I'm Changing - (A Tribute To Johnnie Taylor)
• 9. Good Woman Thinking Bad, A
• 10. Woman Knows How To Please Herself, A
• 11. Love Me Like I Want You To
• 12. When Did You Leave Heaven

Various Artists

Coal Mining Women - Featured artists include Hazel Dickens, Sarah Gunning, Phyllis Boyens, Florence Reese, and the Reel World String Band, with guests Blaine Sprouse, fiddle; Roland White, mandolins; Bela Fleck and Lamar Grier, banjos; Jerry Douglas, Dobro; Roy Huskey, bass and many others -- $15.00

"I always wondered where the heart and soul of American Music lives. I should have known it's at the bottom of a coal mine where it runs deep, dark and dangerous. This is some of the purest music that's ever been made regarding the true life blues of a coal miner. These songs take you to a world where few belong. When it's over, ask yourself, 'Which side are you on?'"

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• 1. Coal Mining Woman - Hazel Dickens
• 2. Blue Diamond Mines - Phyllis Boyens
• 3. Dreadful Memories - Sarah Gunning
• 4. Yablonski Murder - Hazel Dickens
• 5. Lawrence Jones - Phyllis Boyens
• 6. Draglines - Reel World String Band
• 7. Coal Miner's Grave - Hazel Dickens
• 8. Come All You Coal Miners - Sarah Gunning
• 9. Black Lung - Hazel Dickens
• 10. Dream of a Miner's Child - Phyllis Boyens
• 11. The Mannington Mine Disaster - Hazel Dickens
• 12. That 25 Cents That You Paid - Sarah Gunning
• 13. Clay County Miner - Hazel Dickens
• 14. Clara Sullivan's Letter - Hazel Dickens
• 15. What She Aims to Be - Reel World String Band
• 16. Coal Tattoo - Hazel Dickens
• 17. Hello Coal Miner - Sarah Gunning
• 18. The Battle of Jericol - Reel World String Band
• 19. Which Side Are You On? - Florence Reece
• 20. They'll Never Keep Us Down - Hazel Dickens

Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs - Hymns, speeches, spirituals, gospel songs, and prayers...a moving civil rights collection drawn from 1960s field recordings in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The compilation captures the irrepressible spirit of that era and reveals a determined and triumphant African American culture. A collection of glorious songs and heartstopping selections by The SNCC Freedom Singers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and others. "...there is wonderful singing here, great conviction, and the immediacy of living truth...powerful documentation of the most important social movement of our time." -- Sing Out! -- $15.00

Spain In My Heart - The idealistic appeal of "fighting the good fight" against the fascist troops of General Francisco Franco as he waged war against Spain's democratically elected government drew more than 45,000 volunteer soldiers from over 50 countries during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The influx of so many cultures that formed the five International Brigades helped create a canon of war-related songs sung by the freedom fighters and revived during the American folk boom of the Fifties, even as the victorious Franco ruled Spain for four brutal decades -- $15.00

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• 1. Jarama Valley - Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger
• 2. En La Plaza De Mi Pueblo - Michele Greene
• 3. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - John McCutcheon
• 4. Asturias - Guardabarranco
• 5. El Quinto Regimiento - Lila Downs
• 6. The Bantry Girls. Lament - Aoife Clancy
• 7. García y Galán - Uxía
• 8. Los Cuatro Generales - Joel & Jamaica Rafael
• 9. Llegó Con Tres Heridas - Eliseo Parra
• 10. Noche Nochera - Guardabarranco
• 11. Viva La Quinte Brigada - Shay Black & Aoife Clancy
• 12. Si Me Quieres Escribir - Quetzal
• 13. Tú Que Brillas - Michele Greene
• 14. Los Marineros - Uxía
• 15. Peat Bog Soldiers - Laurie Lewis
• 16. Viva La Quince Brigada - Quetzal
• 17. Taste of Ashes - Laurie Lewis