It’s easy to forget that the end-of-summer holiday is more than a time for picnics and last swims. For this edition of the Magazine, we’ll celebrate those who labor, and those who fight for the rights of everyone. We’ll hear John McCutcheon, Malvina Reynolds, the New Lost City Ramblers, and Peggy Seeger’s classic engineer song. Celebrate the workers … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Curt Bouterse / “Carlisle” / Nixon’s Farewell / Dancing Cat
Joe Jencks / “Solidarity Forever” / Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers / Turtle Bear
Barbara Dane / “Millworker” / Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard Hitting Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Tom Chapin / “Fair Pay Fair Play Blues” / Threads / Sundance

John McCutcheon / “Sydney-Joe Hill” / Untold / Appleseed
John O’Connor / “Saturday” / We Ain’t Gonna Give It Away / Self-produced
Curt Bouterse / “Tucson Twostep” / Nixon’s Farewell / Dancing Cat

Peggy Seeger / “Gonna Be An Engineer” / The Folkways Years 1955-1982 / Smithsonian Folkways
New Lost City Ramblers / “Old Age Pension Check” / Songs from the Depression / Smithonian Folkways
Magpie / “The Mill was Made of Marble” / When We Stand Together / Long Tail
Alice Gerrard & Kay Justice / “Cotton Mill Girls” / Tear Down the Fences / Kbell

Malvina Reynolds / “Bury Me in my Overalls” / Ear to the Ground / Smithsonian Folkways
Windbourne / “Which Side are You On” / Song on the Times / Self-produced
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways