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SORM Playlist #15-09: Finger Pointin’ Songs
(airing the week starting 2-25-15)

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Topical songs have been a major component of American folk music for many years. This week we’ll hear some of the classic songs about warfare, railroads, coal mining and unions. Music from The Almanac Singers, Big Bill Broonzy, Guy Carawan, Paul Robeson and many more.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Fiddle Whamdiddle / “Miss McLeod’s Reel” / Old School, Old Time /
         Owl Mountain
Red Patterson’s Piedmont Log Rollers / “The Battleship of Maine” /
        Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square
Mrs. Minta Morgan / “Washington the Great” / Songs and Ballads of
        American History… / Rounder
The Almanac Singers / “The Sinking of the Reuben James” / Songs of
        Protest / Prism Leisure
Woody Guthrie / “When the Yanks Go Marching In” / Hard Travelin’”/
        Smithsonian Folkways

Pete Seeger and the Hooteneers / “John Henry” / Sing Out! Hootenanny /
        Smithsonian Folkways
Leadbelly / “Linin’ Track” / Classic Railroad Songs /
        Smithsonian Folkways
Big Bill Broonzy / “This Train” / Classic Folk Music /
        Smithsonian Folkways
Sam McGee / “Railroad Blues” / Classic Mountain Songs /
        Smithsonian Folkways
Will Holt / “MTA” / Newport Folk Festival 1960 / Not Now
Fiddle Whamdiddle / “Spider Bit the Baby” / Old School, Old Time /
        Owl Mountain

Kathy Mattea / “Coal Tatoo” / Coal / Thirty Tigers
John McCutcheon / “The Young Ones Don’t Remember” / Gonna Rise
        Again / Rounder
Guy Carawan with Candy Carawan and Friends / “The L&N Don’t Stop
        Here Anymore / Arbol de la Vida / Flying Fish

Peter K. Siegel & Eli Smith / “There is Power in the Union” / The
        Union Makes Us Strong / Weave Room
Paul Robeson / “Joe Hill” / Classic Labor Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Elaine Purkey / “Labor’s Got Its Hands In Its Pockets” / Mountain
        Music, Mountain Struggle / Marimac

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
        Smithsonian-Folkways

Related posts:

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    (airing the week starting 2-18-15)
  2. SORM Playlist #15-10: Finger Pointin’ Songs, pt. 2
    (airing the week starting 3-04-15)
  3. SORM Playlist #15-20: The Alan Lomax Legacy
    (airing the week starting 5-13-15)
  4. SORM Playlist #14-52: Welcome Winter
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About Tom Druckenmiller

Tom has a long history with Sing Out! as a writer and regular contributor (for more than a decade) and deep and rich skills as a radio host and programmer of folk and roots music! He's been a folk musician and teacher for over forty years. Tom began playing and singing Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton songs, but fell in love with old-time music and the clawhammer banjo after hearing John McCutcheon at the legendary Bethlehem folk club Godfrey Daniels. He has studied with old-time music greats Dwight Diller, Riley Baugus and Norman and Nancy Blake … and has, himself, taught at many music camps and workshops including The Augusta Heritage Workshops (in Elkins WV), the Pocono Dulcimer Fest (in Stroudsburg PA) and the Maidencreek Old-Time Music Festival (in Blandon PA). Druckemiller’s continuing regular local radio gig “In The Tradition” has aired on WDIY-FM in Allentown PA for the past 16 years, and he also co-hosts the “Sunday Folk” program on the station.

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