Labor Songs, Vol. 2

>Recorded between 1978 and 1996, Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs II is a collection of 22 songs celebrating the trials and tribulations of the American working man and woman. Called “labor’s troubadour,” folksinger and social historian Joe Glazer spent his musical career singing songs in support of workers and unions. This collection includes traditional and contemporary labor songs and is a follow-on to Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs (1986), also available from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally issued on the Collector Records label, this album contains brief liner notes about each of the 22 songs.

Track Listing

101	Operating Engineer Joe Glazer	03:02
102	Fight That Line Joe Glazer	02:55
103	Dancing Boilerman Joe Glazer	03:08
104	I Never Did It Joe Glazer	02:15
105	I'm Union and Damn Proud of It Joe Glazer	02:33
106	Taxi Song Joe Glazer	03:56
107	Down at the Union Hall Joe Glazer	02:52
108	To Labor Joe Glazer	02:33
109	Truck Driver Man Joe Glazer	04:20
110	Press Room Joe Glazer	02:53
111	Babies in the Mill Joe Glazer	03:29
112	Hospital Workers Joe Glazer	01:40
113	Buffalo Creek Flood Joe Glazer	03:02
114	Talking Import Blues Joe Glazer	02:33
115	Union Card Joe Glazer	02:35
116	VDT Joe Glazer	02:19
117	Death of Mother Jones Joe Glazer	02:00
118	Sixteen Tons Joe Glazer	02:10
119	Pie in the Sky Joe Glazer	02:00
120	The Right to Know Joe Glazer	02:55
121	Talking Union Joe Glazer	03:05
122	We Shall Overcome Joe Glazer	02:40