Podcast: Songs with a Message
Episode #17-13 | airing 3-29-17
A few weeks ago I received an email message from a loyal listener. She told me her 12-year-old son was interested in Pete and Woody and was learning the banjo. The Banjo! Whew! The song he was trying to learn was “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave.” Amazing! She suggested that a program of “protest songs” might be overdue since the country was in such a political uproar. I am happy to comply. We’ll hear Pete playing the song her son is trying to learn as well as Woody Guthrie, Magpie, Eric Bibb, Phil Ochs and many more. Songs with a Message on the next Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Cincinnati’s University Singers / “The Future America” / The Hand that Holds the Bread / New World Records
The Almanac Singers / “Round and Round Hitler’s Grave” / Songs of Protest / Prism Leisure
Lil Rev & Larry Penn / “I Wanna Be President” / Around the Campfire / Cookie Man
Emma’s Revolution / “Occupy the USA” / RPM / Moving Forward
Ry Cooder / “No Banker Left Behind” / Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down / Nonesuch
Eric Bibb / “Diego’s Blues” / Migration Blues / Stony Plain
Magpie / “Bracero” / Working My Life Away / Collector Records
Bruce Springsteen / “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” / ’til We Outnumber ’em / Righteous Babe
The Cincinnati’s University Singers / “Out of Work” / The Hand that Holds the Bread / New World Records
The Double Decker Stringband / “Mr. Crump Don’t Like It” / The Rest Is Yet To Come / 5-String
Art Thieme / “Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train” / Chicago Town and Points West / Folk Legacy
Phil Ochs / “Hazard, Kentucky” / The Broadside Tapes 1 / Smithsonian Folkways
Elaine Purkey / “If The Rich Paid Taxes” / Mountain Music, Mountain Struggle / Marimac
Pete Seeger / “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” / The Essential Pete Seeger / Vanguard
Woody Guthrie / “I Ain’t Got No Home” / Dust Bowl Ballads / BMG
John McCutcheon / “Pastures of Plenty” / This Land / Appalsongs
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways