The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine

Various Artists SFW40130

The Best of Broadside, Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine. Eighty-nine songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. A five CD boxed set. It 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), but many of them address contemporary issues as well, 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 angry 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.
Country(s) United States
Keyword(s) Folk songs--United States; Folksong revival; Jazz; Music--British Isles; Rock music; Topical songs
Instrument(s) Autoharp; Banjo; Concertina; Fiddle; Guitar; Piano
Language(s) English
Year of Release 2000
Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Produced by Ronald D. Cohen ; Produced by Jeff Place ; Liner Notes by Jeff Place ; Liner Notes by Ronald D. Cohen ; Liner Notes by Anthony Seeger ; Mastered by Pete Reiniger

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Play	101	Links on the Chain	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	4:15
Play	102	Blowin' in the Wind	The New World Singers	2:32
Play	103	Paths of Victory	The Broadside Singers	1:38
Play	104	The Ballad of Ira Hayes	Peter La Farge	3:35
Play	105	Ain't That News?	The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton	1:40
Play	106	The Times I've Had	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	2:53
Play	107	Go Limp	Matt McGinn	2:33
Play	108	Ding Dong Dollar	The Glasgow Song Guild	1:58
Play	109	Mack the Bomb	Pete Seeger	2:40
Play	110	The Civil Defense Sign	Mark Spoelstra	3:50
Play	111	Let Me Die in My Footsteps	Happy Traum and Bob Dylan	3:42
Play	112	Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette	Jim Page	4:52
Play	113	What Have They Done to the Rain?	Malvina Reynolds	2:18
Play	114	Ballad of William Worthy	Phil Ochs	2:09
Play	115	Train for Auschwitz	Tom Paxton	3:50
Play	116	Do as the Doukhobors Do	Pete Seeger	2:12
Play	117	Christine	The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton	2:21
Play	118	As Long as the Grass Shall Grow	Peter La Farge	5:06
Play	201	John Brown	Bob Dylan	4:19
Play	202	Tale Me for a Walk	Bonnie Dobson	4:19
Play	203	The Willing Conscript	Pete Seeger	2:16
Play	204	Kill for Peace	The Fugs	2:12
Play	205	Plains of Nebrasky-o	Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs	2:50
Play	206	Benny Kid Paret	Gil Turner	3:44
Play	207	What Did You Learn in School Today?	Tom Paxton	2:01
Play	208	Changin' Hands	The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs	2:40
Play	209	Welcome, Welcome Emigranté	The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie	2:06
Play	210	Shady Acres	Janis Ian	3:24
Play	211	Lord, Hold Back the Waters	Will McLean	3:50
Play	212	Ballad of Donald White	Bob Dylan	4:31
Play	213	Song for Patty	Sammy Walker	5:54
Play	214	A Very Close Friend of Mine	Richard Black	2:35
Play	215	Long Time Troubled Road	Eric Andersen	3:22
Play	216	Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	Pete Seeger	5:19
Play	301	Mississippi Goddam	Nina Simone	4:59
Play	302	We'll Never Turn Back	The Freedom Singers	3:34
Play	303	Freedom Riders	Phil Ochs	2:15
Play	304	Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon)	The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler	3:49
Play	305	Baby, I've Been Thinking (Society's Child)	Janis Ian	2:44
Play	306	I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail	Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon	5:03
Play	307	The Ballad Of Martin Luther King	Mike Millius	2:57
Play	308	Carry It On	The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler	3:17
Play	309	Birmingham Sunday	Richard Fariña	4:01
Play	310	The Migrant's Song	Danny Valdez and Agustín Lira	5:08
Play	311	El Picket Sign	El Teatro Campesino	3:15
Play	312	La Lucha Continuará	Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood	5:26
Play	313	Contra La Por (Against Fear)	Raimon	1:55
Play	314	Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter	Pete Seeger	2:23
Play	315	If It Wasn't For The Union	Matt McGinn	2:57
Play	316	More Good Men Going Down	The Broadside Singers with David Blue	3:00
Play	317	Sundown	Sis Cunningham	5:56
Play	318	My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)	Sis Cunningham	5:01
Play	319	Draglines	Deborah Silverstein & The New Harmony Sisterhood Band	3:22
Play	320	My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms	Pete Seeger	2:05
Play	401	Pinkville Helicopter	Thom Parrott	3:50
Play	402	Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go	Matt Jones and Elaine Laron	3:28
Play	403	We Seek No Wider War	Phil Ochs	4:19
Play	404	Waist Deep In The Big Muddy	Pete Seeger	3:03
Play	405	Vietnam	Paul Kaplan	5:45
Play	406	Hole In The Ground	Thom Parrott	3:53
Play	407	To Be A Killer	Wes Houston	1:51
Play	408	New York J-D Blues	Pete Seeger	6:00
Play	409	Little Boxes	Malvina Reynolds	2:11
Play	410	Not Enough To Live On But A Little Too Much To Die	Mike Millius	2:21
Play	411	The Faucets Are Dripping	Malvina Reynolds	3:51
Play	412	Bizzness Ain't Dead	The New World Singers	2:31
Play	413	Business	Pete Seeger	2:07
Play	414	Legal-Illegal	Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger	4:10
Play	415	Brown Water And Blood	Jeff Ampolsk	3:50
Play	416	The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy	Thom Parrott	5:11
Play	417	Lafayette	Lucinda Williams	3:48
Play	418	The Ballad Of Earl Durand	Charlie Brown	7:23
Play	419	Plastic Jesus	Ernie Marrs, Bud Foote and Ana Foote Copello	3:40
Play	501	Burn, Baby, Burn	Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	4:16
Play	502	The Cities Are Burning	Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	3:45
Play	503	Nothing But His Blood	Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	2:56
Play	504	You're Just A Laughing Fool	Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick	3:26
Play	505	Time Is Running Out	Wendy Smith	2:56
Play	506	But If I Ask Them	Sis Cunningham	4:49
Play	507	Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy	Sammy Walker	2:47
Play	508	Changes	Phil Ochs	4:19
Play	509	Bound For Glory	Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs	4:06
Play	510	Victor Jara	Arlo Guthrie	4:20
Play	511	We Will Never Give Up	Kristin Lems	3:49
Play	512	Inez	Bev Grant and the Human Condition	3:00
Play	513	Gonna Be An Engineer	Peggy Seeger	4:32
Play	514	Don't Talk To Strangers	Chris Gaylord	7:34
Play	515	Catcher In The Rye	Sammy Walker	4:40
Play	516	The Time Will Come	Elaine White	4:51