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Peter Agnos
Wholly Mother Jones CD $15
A play with 13 songs and 26 scenes - 56 minutes.

 

	Linda Allen Women's Work    CD $15 Songs about women's real work -- building ships, soothing the sick, caring for children in and out of our homes, and working as labor leaders, teachers and builders of peace. mp3 clip of "Rosie the Riveter - Revisited"

Alma (With Augustin Lira, Patricia Wells, and Ravi Knypstra)
Canciones de Amor y Lucha/Songs of Love and Struggle CD $15
Includes Pastures of Plenty and original songs by Augustin Lira. Songs in Spanish and English with translations.

Almanac Singers Talking Union     CD $21
The classic 1940 labor recording by Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell and others.
  Dave Alvin

Public Domain CD $17 2001 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Folk Album
Blackjack David CD $17
Interstate City CD $17
Out In California CD $17

 AndyBlue and the Blues Missionaries Voodoo Music CD $15
Includes "Bourgeois Blues" and "Big Boss Man".

Joan Baez Dark Chords on a Big Guitar CD $18 Joan Baez sings vital and cutting edge material from some of the today's best songwriters. Includes Steve Earle's "Christmas in Washington".

Joan Baez Bowery Songs CD $19 The latest Joan Baez CD recorded live at the Bowery Ballroom in NY includes "Deportees", "Joe Hill", and "Christmas in Washington".

Harry Belafonte Belafonte at Carnegie Hall CD $23 Includes "John Henry" and "Day O (The Banana Boat Song)".

Charlie Bernhardt A Bridge Between Two Worlds CD $15 As a cantor and a union representative Charlie merges the music of the synagogue and of the labor movement.

The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD $16
Recorded live at the People's Voice Cafe, NYC, in celebration of the centennial of the birth of composer Marc Blitzstein. 22 Tracks total, including a Special Bonus Track of Marc Blitzstein himself playing, speaking and singing "The Nickel Under the Foot."

	Bones of Contention Power   CS $5   CD $15 Rock and roll for workers of the world, with Joe Uehlein. The Corporate Stomp Step By Step Rockin' Solidarity - all courtesy of Never Surrender Records -

Billy Bragg Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg 3-CD set $22 50 songs, including hits, album cuts, and rare and unreleased material from Bragg’s seven solo albums, two collaborations with Wilco, and numerous singles and mini-albums. Includes “There is Power in the Union”.

 Bread and Roses CD $8
17 selections of female power, passion and politics by spoken word artists with electronic musical accompaniment.

Brooklyn Women's Chorus The Power of Song CD $15 Songs of labor, peace and justice. Directed by Bev Grant.

Chumbawamba A Singsong and a Scrap CD $15 The folks who brought us "Tubthumping" have got back up again with a newfolk agitprop acoustic CD complete with catchy melodies, four part harmonies, and a sense of awareness of the world around them - including songs about Joe Hill and Emma Goldman.

Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways CD For a limited time, only $10. Now available in large quantities. Featuring Paul Robeson, Joe Glazer, Woody Guthrie, Hazel Dickens, Pete Seeger, John Handcox, Anne Feeney, Utah Phillips, Joe Uehlein, Florence Reese, Baldemar Velasquez and many more.

Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners CD $16 West Virginia miners sing gospel, blues and country music about the hopes and hardships of their work, their lives and their union. The songs were originally collected by George Korson during the 1940s.

Coal Mining Women     CD $17
Re-release of songs by Hazel Dickens, Florence Reese, Phyllis Boyens, Sarah Gunning and others.

Phil Cohen and Patricia Ford
Fortunes of the Highway    CS $10    CD $15
Songs from the life of a union organizer.
 

Caution to the Wind    CD $15
Frail Light - courtesy of Hard Miles Music.

Judy Collins Forever: An Anthology 2-CD set $20 35 great songs spanning her illustrious career, including the labor classic "Bread and Roses" as well as "Suzanne", "Both Sides Now", "Send in the Clowns" and many others.

Ry Cooder My Name is Buddy CD $17 A great pro-union recording from the famed guitarist and musician Ry Cooder ostensibly about the travels of Buddy the Cat, Lefty the Mouse and Reverend Tom Toad during the Depression. Accompanied by a wonderful booklet illustrated by Vincent Valdez.

DC Labor Chorus 2-song CD $5
Includes "Welcome Union Members" and "Health Care Stomp"

Hazel Dickens Powerful, poignant and impassioned songs from this West Virginia native.

Hazel and Alice (with Alice Gerrard)    CD $17

Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People     CD $17

Dorsey Dixon Babies in the Mill: Carolina traditional, industrial, sacred songs     CD $15
Includes his classic song about child labor in the textile industry.

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeno Band Movimiento Music     CS $5    CD $15
Bilingual jazz, rock, cumbia and boogie versions of movement standards such as We Shall Overcome.
 

Don't Mourn - Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill CD $17 Performed by Billy Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger and others. One of our best sellers.

Lila Downs Border (La Linea)    CD $15
Songs inspired by life on the Mexican border that reflect jazz, gospel, and hip-hop influences. Most in Spanish with English translations.

Drop the Debt CD $18 A CD for Canceling “Third World” Debt featuring music by Cesaria Evora, Chico Cesar, Oliver Mtukudzi, Lenine, Soledad Bravo and others.

Maria Dunn We Were Good People CD $17 Songs inspired by the stories of working people in Western Canada - tales of immigration, internment, the Depression, hardship and, above all, resilience and hope.

Smokey Dymny The Smell of Money: Dollars, Dirt & Desolation CD $18
 This I.W.W. singer-songwriter from Toronto sings about unions, global warming and politics.

Steve Earle El Corazon CD $10 Yet another strong Steve Earle album, El Corazon contains the moving "Christmastime In Washington" and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album

Steve Earle The Revolution Starts Now CD $18 His latest release won the Grammy in 2005 for best Contemporary Folk Album. "Where you work and where you play Where you lay your money down What you do and what you say The revolution starts now"

Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band
The Mountain CD $17
Steve Earle's bluegrass album, with "Harlan Man", "Graveyard Shift" and "Leroy's Dustbowl Blues".

Emma's Revolution One: x 1,000,000 = Change CD $15 Pat Humphries and Sandy O sing songs of truth and hope.  Includes "If I Give Your Name", grand prize winner, John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History 2-CD Set $26 Songs, poetry and narratives about slavery, work and protest by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Paul Robeson and others.

Anne Feeney Fiery rabblerouser from Pittsburgh.
Have You Been to Jail for Justice? CS $5     CD$15 For Gene Debs The CD was recorded in Nashville at Silvertone Recording Service under an American Federation of Musicians Contract. All the musicians are proud members of Local 1000 and/or Local 257 of the AFM. All songs composed by Anne Feeney © (BMI)

Look to the Left     CD $15

If I Can't Dance CD $15 16 songs that are sure to get your toes tapping - all in the joyous revolutionary spirit of Emma Goldman.

Union Maid CD $15 Compilation of 23 union songs.

Anne Feeney & Chris Chandler A new musical genre of songs, stories, and poetry.

Flying Poetry Circus    CD $15

Flames of Discontent Revenge of the Atom Spies CD $15 John Pietaro, Laurie Towers and company recall the fight-back of the McCarthy period that led to the social movements of the 1960s. Includes such labor songs as "Stung Right", "Sixteens Tons", and "Joe Hill".

 Tom Flannery The Anthracite Shuffle CD $15
Original songs by Tom Flannery reflecting the Anthracite heritage of his family and community.

Tennessee Ernie Ford
36 All-Time Greatest Hits CD $32
Includes the classic Sixteen Tons.

Forgotten: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant CD $20
The new Detroit Cast Recording includes all 25 songs of the jazz-blues labor opera written by Steve Jones about his relative - a minister who was killed while organizing in the auto industry in the 1930s.

Pierre Fournier
De lutte en turlutte: une histoire du mouvement ouvrier quebecois a travers ses chansons; volume 1 and 2     CD $15 each
The history of the Quebec labor movement through song (in French). Accompanying book available in book section.
La Ronde Des Canuts - from Volume 1.
 

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle     2-CD set $25
Songs of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Features Phil Ochs, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Sweet Honey In The Rock, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Tom Paxton, and others.

Freedom Song Network This Line is Singin'!     CD $15  Great picket line singalongs from San Francisco.

From Wharf Rats To Lords Of The Docks     CD $15
Radio documentary on the life of Harry Bridges. Produced by Ian Ruskin.

 Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble Weapons of Mass Destruction     CD $15
Celebrating 20 years of workplace and community organizing as well as performing and creating music in the South.

 The Fuse Seattle 1919    CD $20
Full-length rock opera about the Seattle General Strike. Written by Rob Rosenthal.

Dick Gaughan Live in Edinburgh     CD $15
Activist folksinger from Scotland.

General Strike Fanning The Flames Of Discontent     CD $15
Protest songs in the IWW tradition by this activist folk group.

Joe Glazer Longtime trade union singer and songwriter.

Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs    CS $10    CD $15
Look For The Union Label - courtesy of Collector Records.
  Joe Glazer Sings Labor Songs II     CS$10    CD $15
The Songs of Joe Hill  CS $12     CD$23 Songs of the Wobblies CD $15
A special release to commemorate the Centenary of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).

Bev Grant We Were There: Songs of Women's Labor History CS $5, CD $15
 

Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead CD $10 Rhino has re-mastered and re-issued the 1970 classic Dead studio recording with 7 additional live cuts. Includes "Uncle John's Band", "Cumberland Blues", and "Casey Jones".

The Great Choral Convergence Live CD $15 21 rabble-rousing songs from six labor choruses that performed in a historic national concert on June 19, 2004 in Washington, DC.

Grupo Muy Muy

Includes Aragon Mill, Campesina Women, and Harriet Tubman     CS $10

Woody Guthrie

Hard Travelin'     CD $17

Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly Folkways: the Original VisionCD $17
Includes Goodnight Irene, This Land is Your Land and more.
The Bourgeois Blues - from Folkways: The Original Vision, Smithsonian Folkways SF 40001, provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. ©1989. Used by Permission.

Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back    CD $15 20 songs by Billy Bragg, Anne Feeney, Utah Phillips, George Mann, DC Labor Chorus, Evan Greer, Colleen Kattau, and others.

Bucky Halker & The Complete Unknowns
Don't Want Your Millions    CD $15
American protest labor songs.

Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships Volume I and II.    CD $18 each
Rare recordings about work in the fields, mills and railroads by Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Sleepy John Estes et al.
 

John L. Handcox: Songs, Poems and Stories of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union
    CD     $16
Ten songs (including his classic "Roll the Union On"), two poems, and an interview with Handcox by Joe Glazer and labor historian Michael Honey.

HARP- Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger.
A Time to Sing! (2-CD Set) $21
Historical 1984 Live Recording.

Kim & Reggie Harris Simplicity    CD $15
Songs with social vision and beautiful harmonies by this husband-and-wife folk duo. Includes Short Shift At Ground Zero and Sting's We Work The Black Seam.
We Work The Black Seam- courtesy of Appleseed Recordings.

Kim and Reggie Harris Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad CD $15 Traditional and contemporary songs about the flight from slavery to freedom.

Kim and Reggie Harris Get On Board!: Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Volume 2    CD $15 The follow-up CD to "Steal Away" with guest artists Danny Glover, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Guy Davis, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr., Baby Jay, Matt and Marshall Jones, and Magpie.

Healy & Juravich tangled in our dreams    CD $15 A new collaboration by Ottawa-based Teresa Healy and labor educator Tom Juravich from Northampton, Massachusetts. This acoustic recording of mostly original duets about work, life, struggle and love also includes "Bread and Roses" and "Mean Things Happening in This Land".

Francisco Herrera La Fuerza de la Raiz CD $15
Songs of immigrants and their roots by musician and cultural worker Francisco Herrera. Most in Spanish without translation.

Tish Hinojosa Country, folk, Latina singer-songwriter from San Antonio.

Culture Swing     CS $10    CD $15
With "Something in the Rain" dedicated to Cesar Chavez.
 

The Best of Tish Hinojosa Live CD $15
With "Something in the Rain dedicated to Cesas Chavez and Hand Bones and Blood (Song for Frida Kahlo).

Mike Honey and David Sawyer Links on the Chain    CS $10
Songs of the labor and civil rights movements.

Pat Humphries
Hands    CD $15
Named for Humphries' cover of Phil Ochs' unreleased song. Includes No Sweat and We Were There.
We Were There- written by Bev Grant; courtesy of Appleseed Recordings.

Joe Jencks I Hear Your Voice     CD $15 Messages of human rights, social justice, and community pride.

Joe Jencks Rise as One: A Live Solidarity Concert     CD $15 20 traditional, contemporary and original labor songs and stories about the lives and history of working people.

Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together     CD $17
Labor songs and recitations for children.

cELLAbration: a Tribute to Ella Jenkins CD $17 Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, John McCutcheon, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger and others sing the songs of "The First Lady of Children's Music". In 2005 this CD won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children.

Stephen Jones One More Day CD $15
Songs from the Detroit Newspaper Strike.

Tom Juravich

Out of Darkness     CS $10    CD $15
Songs from the United Mine Workers movie.
  Just Cause Standards CD $13
Five NYC musician play Dixieland, groove-jazz, country-Irish instrumental renditions of classic American protest songs.  Includes We Shall Not Be Moved, Solidarity Forever, and John Henry..

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