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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
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Buy Box Set (5CDs/Book) $69.98
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 4:15
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Blowin' in the Wind The New World Singers 2:32
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Paths of Victory The Broadside Singers 1:38
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The Ballad of Ira Hayes Peter La Farge 3:35
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Ain't That News? The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton 1:40
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The Times I've Had The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs 2:53
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Go Limp Matt McGinn 2:33
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Ding Dong Dollar The Glasgow Song Guild 1:58
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Mack the Bomb Pete Seeger 2:40
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The Civil Defense Sign Mark Spoelstra 3:50
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Let Me Die in My Footsteps Happy Traum and Bob Dylan 3:42  
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette Jim Page 4:52
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What Have They Done to the Rain? Malvina Reynolds 2:18
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Ballad of William Worthy Phil Ochs 2:09
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Train for Auschwitz Tom Paxton 3:50
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Do as the Doukhobors Do Pete Seeger 2:12
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Christine The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton 2:21
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As Long as the Grass Shall Grow Peter La Farge 5:06
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John Brown Bob Dylan 4:19  
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Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew) Bonnie Dobson 4:19
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The Willing Conscript Pete Seeger 2:16
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Kill for Peace The Fugs 2:12
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Plains of Nebrasky-o Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs 2:50
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Benny Kid Paret Gil Turner 3:44
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What Did You Learn in School Today? Tom Paxton 2:01
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Changin' Hands The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs 2:40
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Welcome, Welcome Emigranté The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie 2:06
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Shady Acres Janis Ian 3:24
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Lord, Hold Back the Waters Will McLean 3:50
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Ballad of Donald White Bob Dylan 4:31  
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Song for Patty Sammy Walker 5:54
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A Very Close Friend of Mine Richard Black 2:35
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Long Time Troubled Road Eric Andersen 3:22
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Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Pete Seeger 5:19
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Mississippi Goddam Nina Simone 4:59  
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We'll Never Turn Back The Freedom Singers 3:34  
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Freedom Riders Phil Ochs 2:15
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Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon) The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler 3:49
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Baby, I've Been Thinking (Society's Child) Janis Ian 2:44
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I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon 5:03
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The Ballad Of Martin Luther King Mike Millius 2:57
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Carry It On The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler 3:17
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Birmingham Sunday Richard Fariña 4:01  
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The Migrant's Song Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira 5:08
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El Picket Sign El Teatro Campesino 3:15
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La Lucha Continuará Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood 5:26
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Contra La Por (Against Fear) Raimon 1:55
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Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter Pete Seeger 2:23
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If It Wasn't For The Union Matt McGinn 2:57
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More Good Men Going Down The Broadside Singers with David Blue 3:00
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Sundown Sis Cunningham 5:56
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My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) Sis Cunningham 5:01
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Draglines Deborah Silverstein & The New Harmony Sisterhood Band 3:22
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My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms Pete Seeger 2:05
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Pinkville Helicopter Thom Parrott 3:50
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Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go Matt Jones and Elaine Laron 3:28
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We Seek No Wider War Phil Ochs 4:19
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Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Pete Seeger 3:03
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Vietnam Paul Kaplan 5:45
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Hole In The Ground Thom Parrott 3:53
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To Be A Killer Wes Houston 1:51
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New York J-D Blues Pete Seeger 6:00
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Little Boxes Malvina Reynolds 2:11
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Not Enough To Live On But A Little Too Much To Die Mike Millius 2:21
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The Faucets Are Dripping Malvina Reynolds 3:51
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Bizzness Ain't Dead The New World Singers 2:31
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Business Pete Seeger 2:07
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Legal-Illegal Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger 4:10
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Brown Water And Blood Jeff Ampolsk 3:50
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The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy Thom Parrott 5:11
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Lafayette Lucinda Williams 3:48
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The Ballad Of Earl Durand Charlie Brown 7:23
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Plastic Jesus Ernie Marrs, Bud Foote, Eleanor Walden, and Danny Smith (The Dixie Devils) 3:40
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Burn, Baby, Burn Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 4:16
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The Cities Are Burning Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 3:45
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Nothing But His Blood Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 2:56
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You're Just A Laughing Fool Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick 3:26
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Time Is Running Out Wendy Smith 2:56
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But If I Ask Them Sis Cunningham 4:49
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Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy Sammy Walker 2:47
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Changes Phil Ochs 4:19
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Bound For Glory Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs 4:06
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Victor Jara Arlo Guthrie 4:20  
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We Will Never Give Up Kristin Lems 3:49
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Inez Bev Grant and the Human Condition 3:00
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Gonna Be An Engineer Peggy Seeger 4:32
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Don't Talk To Strangers Chris Gaylord 7:34
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Catcher In The Rye Sammy Walker 4:40
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The Time Will Come Elaine White 4:51

Album Info

Catalog Number

SFW40130

Year(s) Released

2000

Recording Date(s)

1962-1988

Label/Collection

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Genre(s)

American Folk

Country(s)

United States

Instrument(s)

Autoharp; Banjo; Concertina; Fiddle; Guitar; Piano

Language(s)

English

Credit(s)

Ronald D. Cohen - Producer, Liner Notes
 Anthony Seeger - Liner Notes
 Pete Reiniger - Mastering Engineer
 Jeff Place - Producer, Liner Notes
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*One or more tracks from this album are unavailable for digital download. You may download the available tracks individually below. Please purchase the CD version to receive all tracks.

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