VA - The Little Red Box of Protest Songs [2009] (3 x CD's)

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VA - The Little Red Box of Protest Songs [2009] (3 x CD's)

The Little Red Box Of Protest Songs is a truly outstanding release, 3 CD's full of some of the finest protest folk music from the USA of the early 20th century.  These old protest songs are still, sadly, pertinent today. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the recordings given that most were recorded long before all the hi-tech equipment now available. Three of the discs are CDs. The fourth is a DVD (not included). My only complaint is that there are no dates given for the recordings. The approximate time can be figured out, but exact dates and places would be interesting. The booklet enclosed with the discs gives background history plus brief biographies of the singers. Excellent collection. Broad based and giving an indication of progression through time of the genre relating the music to contemporary issues. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD 1    The House I Live In

01    Pete Seeger    Banks Are Made of Marble    3:12
02    Josh White    Chain Gang Bound    3:00
03    Earl Robinson    Joe Hill    2:33
04    Woody Guthrie    This Land Is Your Land    2:17
05    Union Boys    Jim Crow    2:48
06    Bob Miller    Farmer's Letter to the President    2:57
07    Almanac Singers    The Strange Death of John Doe    1:24
08    Josh White    Southern Exposure    3:07
09    Pete Seeger    Talking Atom    2:51
10    Josh White; Tom Glazer    We've Got a Plan    2:33
11    Bob Miller    Bank Failures    3:15
12    Earl Robinson    The House I Live In    3:06
13    Almanac Singers    Round & Round Hitler's Grave    2:48
14    J.B. Lenoir    Eisenhower Blues    2:52
15    Goodson; Vale    Unity Rhumba    2:49
16    Almanac Singers    Dear Mr. President    2:48
17    Woody Guthrie    Pastures of Plenty    2:26
18    Mara Alexander & Others    The Bosses' Gang    2:25
19    Josh White    Freedom Road    2:18
20    Leadbelly    The Scottsboro Boys    5:00

CD 2    Patriotic Diggers

01    Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood    Voting Union    1:44
02    Woody Guthrie    Talking Sailor    3:03
03    Leadbelly    The Roosevelt Song    3:56
04    Carl Sandburg    The Boll Weevil    2:35
05    Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert    The Preacher & the Slave    2:58
06    Josh White & His Carolinians    Nine Foot Shovel    2:41
07    Brownie McGhee    High Price Blues    2:45
08    Union Boys    Hold On    2:13
09    Woody Guthrie    Miner's Song    2:11
10    Bob Hill (Fred Hellerman)    Pity the Downtrodden Landlord    2:23
11    Josh White    Jim Crow Train    3:04
12    John Allison    Patriotic Diggers    2:20
13    Bob Miller    Farm Relief Blues    2:54
14    Woody Guthrie    Worried Man Blues    2:59
15    Josh White & His Carolinians    Trouble    3:20
16    Union Boys    Uaw-Cio    2:05
17    Leadbelly    Mr. Hitler    3:05
18    Josh White    No More Blues    0:58
19    Almanac Singers    Plow Under    2:22
20    Josh White & His Carolinians    Told My Cap'n    3:16

CD 3    We Shall Be Free

01    Josh White    Strange Fruit    3:06
02    Leadbelly    The Bourgeois Blues    5:35
03    Almanac Singers    C for Conscription    1:30
04    Tom Glazer & Josh White    Citizen C.I.O    2:28
05    Woody Guthrie    Ship in the Sky    2:34
06    Josh White & His Carolinians    Jerry    2:47
07    Bob Miller    The Rich Man & the Poor Man    2:57
08    Priority Ramblers    In Washington    2:55
09    Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood    A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore    2:21
10    Sir Lancelot    Atomic Energy    2:44
11    Brownie McGhee    Black, Brown & White    2:37
12    Josh White    Uncle Sam Says    2:39
13    Aunt Molly Jackson    Ragged Hungry Blues Pt. 1    2:33
14    Aunt Molly Jackson    Ragged Hungry Blues Pt. 2    2:54
15    Earl Robinson    We're Keeping Score in '44    3:31
16    Josh White & His Carolinians    Goin' Home Boys    2:53
17    Laura Duncan    I've Got a Right    2:43
18    Weavers    The Hammer Song    2:00
19    Ernie Lieberman    I'm on My Way    3:03
20    Woody Guthrie    We Shall Be Free    2:59

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