Category Archives: Folk
Ain’t No Grave
Earl Scruggs (1924-2012)
This Machine Kills Fascists
Above: Woody Guthrie. Below: Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger do a rendition of Union Maid.
Two Good Men, a ballad about Sacco and Vanzetti:
All You Fascists, another Woody Guthrie song, covered by Billy Bragg:
Joe Hill and the Little Red Songbook
Here’s a great video. Words and music by Phil Ochs, performed by Billy Bragg.
Joe Hill’s The Rebel Girl. The introduction includes an excerpt of the speech by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn we read for class.
More Billy Bragg. This time playing Joe Hill’s There is Power in a Union in the GDR. Song kicks in @ 3:13.
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