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Various Artists - Classic Protest Songs From Smithsonian Folkways

Track listing:
  1. Freedom Now Chant - Mass-meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi 0:29
  2. Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie 2:40
  3. Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly 2:21
  4. Black, Brown And White - Bill Broonzy 2:45
  5. Baby, I've Been Thinking - Janis Ian 2:45
  6. Blowing In The Wind - The New World Singers 2:32
  7. This Land Is Your Land - Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee, and Mark Dann 4:42
  8. Turn, Turn, Turn - Liz Getz 3:08
  9. As Long As The Grass Will Grow - Peter La Farge 5:11
  10. Talking Pay TV - Phil Ochs 2:37
  11. Masters Of War - Bergerfolk 4:10
  12. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy - Pete Seeger 3:00
  13. Agent Orange - Peggy Seeger 3:55
  14. Strange Fruit - Brother John Sellers 2:23
  15. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live - New Lost City Ramblers 3:37
  16. I'm Going To Write The Governor Of Georgia - Champion Jack Dupree 3:16
  17. When We Make It Through - Barbara Dane 5:27
  18. Evicted Tenant - Sis Cunningham 2:10
  19. Los Perros Del Pueblo Nuevo - Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo 3:05
  20. Gone, Gone, Gone - Red Shadow, the Economic Rock and Roll Band 2:17
  21. Spirits Of The Revolution - Larry Estridge 5:11
  22. We Shall Overcome - Guy Carawan 3:39

Notes

War, social injustice, personal plaints, and calls for action have long fueled musical creation and performance. In Classic Protest Songs, Mark Gustafson and Jeff Place tap the historic Smithsonian audio collections to compile 22 songs favored by leaders of antiwar, civil rights, industrial labor, farm worker, and other struggles to air their grievances. Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Janis Ian, Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Barbara Dane, Guy Carawan, Phil Ochs, and other marquee artists let their voices ring out with calls for peace and justice.