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The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine

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The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine The Best of Broadside, Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine. Eighty-nine songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. A five CD boxed set. Broadside was a small underground magazine smuggled out of a New York City housing project in a baby carriage, filled with new songs by artists who were too creative for the folkies and too radical for the establishment. A still-underground Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and dozens of others first published songs like "Blowin' in the Wind," "Little Boxes," and "Society's Child," in Broadside. The Best of Broadside features 89 songs from the Folkways collection, tapes from the Broadside magazine office, and some tracks released on other labels. The set contains a variety of performers, topics, and musical styles that tell tales spanning the 25 years of the Broadside era (1962-1988), but many of them address contemporary issues as well, since the new millennium has not see the end of warfare, nuclear threat, ethnic conflict, immigrants' suffering, women's unequal rights, ecological devastation, and social injustice. This is the underground music that fueled the innocent-sounding Folk Revival on the one hand and the explosions of angry rock and rap on the other. The Best of Broadside brings an era, its musicians, and its many stories to a new audience. The extensive notes feature the graphics of the original Broadside magazine and provide information on the careers of its many musicians with extensive discographies, the stories behind most of the songs as well as their full texts. They also describe the dramatic history of the magazine itself—a remarkable achievement of dedicated musicians and social activists.

Track Listing

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Links on the Chain The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs 04:15
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Blowin' in the Wind The New World Singers 02:32
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Paths of Victory The Broadside Singers 01:38
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The Ballad of Ira Hayes Peter La Farge 03:35
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Ain't That News? The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton 01:40
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The Times I've Had The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs 02:53
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Go Limp Matt McGinn 02:33
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Ding Dong Dollar The Glasgow Song Guild 01:58
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Mack the Bomb Pete Seeger 02:40
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The Civil Defense Sign Mark Spoelstra 03:50
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Let Me Die in My Footsteps Happy Traum and Bob Dylan 03:42  
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette Jim Page 04:52
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What Have They Done to the Rain? Malvina Reynolds 02:18
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Ballad of William Worthy Phil Ochs 02:09
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Train for Auschwitz Tom Paxton 03:50
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Do as the Doukhobors Do Pete Seeger 02:12
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Christine The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton 02:21
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As Long as the Grass Shall Grow Peter La Farge 05:06
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John Brown Bob Dylan 04:19  
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Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew) Bonnie Dobson 04:19
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The Willing Conscript Pete Seeger 02:16
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Kill for Peace The Fugs 02:12
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Plains of Nebrasky-o Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs 02:50
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Benny Kid Paret Gil Turner 03:44
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What Did You Learn in School Today? Tom Paxton 02:01
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Changin' Hands The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs 02:40
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Welcome, Welcome Emigranté The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie 02:06
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Shady Acres Janis Ian 03:24
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Lord, Hold Back the Waters Will McLean 03:50
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Ballad of Donald White Bob Dylan 04:31  
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Song for Patty Sammy Walker 05:54
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A Very Close Friend of Mine Richard Black 02:35
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Long Time Troubled Road Eric Andersen 03:22
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Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Pete Seeger 05:19
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Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone 04:59  
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We'll Never Turn Back The Freedom Singers 03:34  
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Freedom Riders Phil Ochs 02:15
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Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon) The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler 03:49
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Baby, I've Been Thinking (Society's Child) Janis Ian 02:44
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I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon 05:03
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The Ballad Of Martin Luther King Mike Millius 02:57
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Carry It On The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler 03:17
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Birmingham Sunday Richard Fariña 04:01  
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The Migrant's Song Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira 05:08
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El Picket Sign El Teatro Campesino 03:15
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La Lucha Continuará Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood 05:26
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Contra La Por (Against Fear) Raimon 01:55
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Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter Pete Seeger 02:23
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If It Wasn't For The Union Matt McGinn 02:57
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More Good Men Going Down The Broadside Singers with David Blue 03:00
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Sundown Sis Cunningham 05:56
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My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) Sis Cunningham 05:01
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Draglines Deborah Silverstein & The New Harmony Sisterhood Band 03:22
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My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms Pete Seeger 02:05
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Pinkville Helicopter Thom Parrott 03:50
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Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go Matt Jones and Elaine Laron 03:28
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We Seek No Wider War Phil Ochs 04:19
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Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Pete Seeger 03:03
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Vietnam Paul Kaplan 05:45
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Hole In The Ground Thom Parrott 03:53
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To Be A Killer Wes Houston 01:51
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New York J-D Blues Pete Seeger 06:00
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Little Boxes Malvina Reynolds 02:11
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Not Enough To Live On But A Little Too Much To Die Mike Millius 02:21
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The Faucets Are Dripping Malvina Reynolds 03:51
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Bizzness Ain't Dead The New World Singers 02:31
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Business Pete Seeger 02:07
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Legal-Illegal Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger 04:10
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Brown Water And Blood Jeff Ampolsk 03:50
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The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy Thom Parrott 05:11
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Lafayette Lucinda Williams 03:48
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The Ballad Of Earl Durand Charlie Brown 07:23
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Plastic Jesus Ernie Marrs, Bud Foote, Eleanor Walden, and Danny Smith (The Dixie Devils) 03:40
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Burn, Baby, Burn Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 04:16
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The Cities Are Burning Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 03:45
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Nothing But His Blood Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 02:56
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You're Just A Laughing Fool Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 03:26
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Time Is Running Out Wendy Smith 02:56
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But If I Ask Them Sis Cunningham 04:49
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Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy Sammy Walker 02:47
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Changes Phil Ochs 04:19
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Bound For Glory Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs 04:06
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Victor Jara Arlo Guthrie 04:20  
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We Will Never Give Up Kristin Lems 03:49
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Inez Bev Grant and the Human Condition 03:00
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Gonna Be An Engineer Peggy Seeger 04:32
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Don't Talk To Strangers Chris Gaylord 07:34
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Catcher In The Rye Sammy Walker 04:40
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The Time Will Come Elaine White 04:51