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, 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

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