Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (5CD)

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  • Total New: 10
  • Total Used: 4
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  • Artist : Various
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0093074013021
  • Format : Box set
  • Label : Smithsonian Folkways
  • Manufacturer : Smithsonian Folkways
  • Model : SFW40130
  • MPN : SF-40130-CD
  • Number Of Discs : 5
  • Package Dimensions : 1.30 inches (Height) x 11.20 inches (Length) x 2.50 pounds (Weight) x 9.50 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : SF-40130-CD
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Folkways
  • Release Date : 2000-09-25
  • Running Time : 301
  • SKU : 1276595
  • Studio : Smithsonian Folkways
  • UPC : 093074013021

Historically, a broadside was a song (without music) or poem printed on one side of paper, dealing with a topical issue, usually of a political nature. Broadsides were peddled by itinerant writers for a few cents, and their message served to spread the news or perhaps create a controversy about a current event. In 1962, Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, began publication of Broadside, a topical song magazine that would quickly help start a national movement in the US. After the Eisenhower Cold War 1950s, a social, cultural, and political revolution was in the air. Broadside began publishing hundreds of songs of social dissatisfaction by musicians who later became the leading lights of the folk and protest movements. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Paxton, Pete Seeger and dozens more all had their songs first published in Broadside. This five-CD set is a marvellously comprehensive document of the magazine's songs and songwriters, all of whom were recorded by Folkways Records. The lyric of each is printed and extensive information given about the context in which the song was created. Background material is provided on all the songwriters, as well. The discs are compiled primarily around the main topics: Labour, Nuclear Weapons, Social Injustice, Vietnam, and Civil Rights. Eighty-nine songs in all are featured, most of which could loosely be termed "folk music" in style: basic rhythms, acoustic instruments, spirited singers. Listening to the songs and following the annotation are reminders of an era of potent protest in this country when music really mattered, and the songs themselves were the primary means of expressing dissatisfaction and disillusionment. Broadside was a small publication, primarily a labour of love, but its historic legacy looms large when all its material is brought together in a well-researched, well-presented compilation such as this one. --Wally Shoup

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: Links On The Chain - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 2: Blowin' In The Wind - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 3: Paths Of Victory - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 4: The Ballad Of Ira Hayes - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 5: Ain't That News - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 6: The Times I've Had - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 7: Go Limp - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 8: Ding Dong Dollar - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 9: Mack The Bomb - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 10: The Civil Defense Sign - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 11: Let Me Die In My Footsteps - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 12: Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 13: What Have They Done To The Rain? - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 14: Ballad Of William Worthy - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 15: Train For Auschwitz - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 16: Do As The Doukhobors Do - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 17: Christine - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside
    • 18: As Long As The Grass Shall Grow - Various Artists- Best Of Broadside

  • Disc 2

    • 1: John Brown
    • 2: Take Me For A Walk
    • 3: The Willing Conscript
    • 4: Kill For Peace
    • 5: Plains Of Nebrasky-O
    • 6: Benny Kid Paret
    • 7: What Did You Learn In School Today?
    • 8: Changin' Hands
    • 9: Welcome, Welcome Emigrante
    • 10: Shady Acres
    • 11: Lord, Hold Back The Waters
    • 12: Ballad Of Donald White
    • 13: Song For Patty
    • 14: A Very Close Friend Of Mine
    • 15: Long Time Troubled Road
    • 16: Hard Rain's A-Gonna-Fall

  • Disc 3

    • 1: Mississippi Goddam
    • 2: We'll Never Turn Back
    • 3: Freedom Riders
    • 4: Father's Grave
    • 5: Baby I've Been Thinking
    • 6: I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
    • 7: The Ballad Of Martin Luther King
    • 8: Carry It On
    • 9: Birmingham Sunday
    • 10: The Migrant's Song
    • 11: El Picket Sign
    • 12: La Lucha Continuara
    • 13: Contra La Por
    • 14: Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
    • 15: If It Wasn't For The Union
    • 16: More Good Men Going Down
    • 17: Sundown
    • 18: My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)
    • 19: Draglines
    • 20: My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms

  • Disc 4

    • 1: Pinkyville Helicopter
    • 2: Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
    • 3: We Seek No Wider War
    • 4: Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
    • 5: Vietnam
    • 6: Hole In The Ground
    • 7: To Be A Killer
    • 8: New York J-D Blues
    • 9: Little Boxes
    • 10: Not Enough To Live On But A Little Too Much To Die
    • 11: The Faucets Are Dripping
    • 12: Bizzness Ain't Dead
    • 13: Business
    • 14: Legal-Illegal
    • 15: Brown Water And Blood
    • 16: The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy
    • 17: Lafayette
    • 18: The Ballad Of Earl Durand
    • 19: Plastic Jesus

  • Disc 5

    • 1: Burn, Baby, Burn
    • 2: The Cities Are Burning
    • 3: Nothing But His Blood
    • 4: You're Just A Laughing Fool
    • 5: Time Is Running Out
    • 6: But If I Ask Them
    • 7: Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy
    • 8: Changes
    • 9: Bound For Glory
    • 10: Victor Jara
    • 11: We Will Never Give Up
    • 12: Inez
    • 13: Gonna Be An Engineer
    • 14: Don't Talk To Strangers
    • 15: Catcher In The Rye
    • 16: The Time Will Come

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