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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

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). Many of them also address contemporary issues, 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 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. Eighty-nine songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. A five CD boxed set.

Track Listing

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The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs
04:15
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102
The New World Singers
02:32
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103
The Broadside Singers
01:38
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104
Peter La Farge
03:35
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105
The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton
01:40
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106
The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs
02:53
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107
Matt McGinn
02:33
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108
The Glasgow Song Guild
01:58
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109
Pete Seeger
02:40
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110
Mark Spoelstra
03:50
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111
Happy Traum
03:42
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112
Jim Page
04:52
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113
Malvina Reynolds
02:18
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114
Phil Ochs
02:09
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115
Tom Paxton
03:50
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116
Pete Seeger
02:12
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117
The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton
02:21
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118
Peter La Farge
05:06
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201
Blind Boy Grunt
04:19
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202
Bonnie Dobson
04:19
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203
Pete Seeger
02:16
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204
The Fugs
02:12
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205
Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs
02:50
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206
Gil Turner
03:44
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207
Tom Paxton
02:01
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208
The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs
02:40
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209
The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie
02:06
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210
Janis Ian
03:24
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211
Will McLean
03:50
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212
Blind Boy Grunt
04:31
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213
Sammy Walker
05:54
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214
Richard Black
02:35
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215
Eric Andersen
03:22
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216
Pete Seeger
05:19
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301
Nina Simone
04:59  
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302
The Freedom Singers
03:34  
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303
Phil Ochs
02:15
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304
The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler
03:49
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305
Janis Ian
02:44
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306
Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon
05:03
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307
Mike Millius
02:57
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308
The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler
03:17
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309
Richard Fariña
04:01  
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310
Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira
05:08
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311
El Teatro Campesino
03:15
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312
Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood
05:26
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313
Raimón Padilla
01:55
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314
Pete Seeger
02:23
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315
Matt McGinn
02:57
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316
The Broadside Singers with David Blue
03:00
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317
Sis Cunningham
05:56
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318
Sis Cunningham
05:01
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319
Deborah Silverstein and The New Harmony Sisterhood Band
03:22
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320
Pete Seeger
02:05
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401
Thom Parrott
03:50
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402
Matt Jones and Elaine Laron
03:28
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403
Phil Ochs
04:19
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404
Pete Seeger
03:03
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405
Paul Kaplan
05:45
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406
Thom Parrott
03:53
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407
Wes Houston
01:51
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408
Pete Seeger
06:00
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409
Malvina Reynolds
02:11
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410
Mike Millius
02:21
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411
Malvina Reynolds
03:51
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412
The New World Singers
02:31
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413
Pete Seeger
02:07
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414
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
04:10
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415
Jeff Ampolsk
03:50
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416
Thom Parrott
05:11
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417
Lucinda Williams
03:48
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418
Charlie Brown
07:23
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419
Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family
03:40
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501
Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
04:16
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502
Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
03:45
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503
Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
02:56
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504
Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
03:26
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505
Wendy Smith
02:56
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506
Sis Cunningham
04:49
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507
Sammy Walker
02:47
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508
Phil Ochs
04:19
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Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs
04:06
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Arlo Guthrie
04:20  
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511
Kristin Lems
03:49
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512
Bev Grant and the Human Condition
03:00
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513
Peggy Seeger
04:32
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514
Chris Gaylord
07:34
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515
Sammy Walker
04:40
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516
Elaine White
04:51