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

101	Links on the Chain	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	04:15
102	Blowin' in the Wind	The New World Singers	02:32
103	Paths of Victory	The Broadside Singers	01:38
104	The Ballad of Ira Hayes	Peter La Farge	03:35
105	Ain't That News?	The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton	01:40
106	The Times I've Had	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	02:53
107	Go Limp	Matt McGinn	02:33
108	Ding Dong Dollar	The Glasgow Song Guild	01:58
109	Mack the Bomb	Pete Seeger	02:40
110	The Civil Defense Sign	Mark Spoelstra	03:50
111	Let Me Die in My Footsteps	Happy Traum	03:42
112	Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette	Jim Page	04:52
113	What Have They Done to the Rain?	Malvina Reynolds	02:18
114	Ballad of William Worthy	Phil Ochs	02:09
115	Train for Auschwitz	Tom Paxton	03:50
116	Do as the Doukhobors Do	Pete Seeger	02:12
117	Christine	The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton	02:21
118	As Long as the Grass Shall Grow	Peter La Farge	05:06
201	John Brown	Blind Boy Grunt	04:19
202	Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew)	Bonnie Dobson	04:19
203	The Willing Conscript	Pete Seeger	02:16
204	Kill for Peace	The Fugs	02:12
205	Plains of Nebrasky-O	Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs	02:50
206	Benny Kid Paret	Gil Turner	03:44
207	What Did You Learn in School Today?	Tom Paxton	02:01
208	Changin' Hands	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	02:40
209	Welcome, Welcome Emigranté	The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie	02:06
210	Shady Acres	Janis Ian	03:24
211	Lord, Hold Back the Waters	Will McLean	03:50
212	The Ballad of Donald White	Blind Boy Grunt	04:31
213	Song for Patty	Sammy Walker	05:54
214	A Very Close Friend of Mine	Richard Black	02:35
215	Long Time Troubled Road	Eric Andersen	03:22
216	Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	Pete Seeger	05:19
301	Mississippi Goddam	Nina Simone	04:59
302	We'll Never Turn Back	The Freedom Singers	03:34
303	Freedom Riders	Phil Ochs	02:15
304	Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon)	The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler	03:49
305	Baby, I've Been Thinking (Society's Child)	Janis Ian	02:44
306	I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail	Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon	05:03
307	The Ballad of Martin Luther King	Mike Millius	02:57
308	Carry It On	The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler	03:17
309	Birmingham Sunday	Richard Fariña	04:01
310	The Migrant's Song	Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira	05:08
311	El Picket Sign	El Teatro Campesino	03:15
312	La Lucha Continuará	Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood	05:26
313	Contra La Por	Raimón Padilla	01:55
314	Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter	Pete Seeger	02:23
315	If It Wasn't for the Union	Matt McGinn	02:57
316	More Good Men Going Down	The Broadside Singers with David Blue	03:00
317	Sundown	Sis Cunningham	05:56
318	My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)	Sis Cunningham	05:01
319	Draglines	Deborah Silverstein and The New Harmony Sisterhood Band	03:22
320	My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms	Pete Seeger	02:05
401	Pinkville Helicopter	Thom Parrott	03:50
402	Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go	Matt Jones and Elaine Laron	03:28
403	We Seek No Wider War	Phil Ochs	04:19
404	Waist Deep in the Big Muddy	Pete Seeger	03:03
405	Vietnam	Paul Kaplan	05:45
406	Hole in the Ground	Thom Parrott	03:53
407	To Be a Killer	Wes Houston	01:51
408	New York J-D Blues	Pete Seeger	06:00
409	Little Boxes	Malvina Reynolds	02:11
410	Not Enough to Live on but a Little Too Much to Die	Mike Millius	02:21
411	The Faucets Are Dripping	Malvina Reynolds	03:51
412	Bizzness Ain't Dead	The New World Singers	02:31
413	Business	Pete Seeger	02:07
414	Legal-Illegal	Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger	04:10
415	Brown Water and Blood	Jeff Ampolsk	03:50
416	The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy	Thom Parrott	05:11
417	Lafayette	Lucinda Williams	03:48
418	The Ballad of Earl Durand	Charlie Brown	07:23
419	Plastic Jesus	Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family	03:40
501	Burn, Baby, Burn	Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	04:16
502	The Cities Are Burning	Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	03:45
503	Nothing but His Blood	Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	02:56
504	You’re Just a Laughing Fool	Jimmy Collier and Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	03:26
505	Time Is Running Out	Wendy Smith	02:56
506	But If I Ask Them	Sis Cunningham	04:49
507	Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy	Sammy Walker	02:47
508	Changes	Phil Ochs	04:19
509	Bound for Glory	Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs	04:06
510	Victor Jara	Arlo Guthrie	04:20
511	We Will Never Give Up	Kristin Lems	03:49
512	Inez	Bev Grant and the Human Condition	03:00
513	Gonna Be an Engineer	Peggy Seeger	04:32
514	Don't Talk to Strangers	Chris Gaylord	07:34
515	Catcher in the Rye	Sammy Walker	04:40
516	The Time Will Come	Elaine White	04:51