The Almanac Singers - The Sea, The Soil & The Struggle

From the liner notes:

The brief time that the Almanac Singers were together went by like a meteor shower, only with more lasting effects. During the two years of their existence, the ad hoc assemblage of folk singers, left-wing activists, and writers who got their name from the rooming house that they shared recorded five albums and a handful of singles for independent New York-based record labels including General, Asch, and Keynote. But more than sixty years after their short time together, their recordings continue to fascinate not only musical but cultural and political historians. The core members of the group included Pete Seeger (b. 1919) and Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), although performers such as Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Tom Glazer, Josh White, Butch Hawes, and others drifted in and out, with no set group appearing from session to session.

On this CD we have included a variety of selections recorded by the Almanac Singers during 1941 and 1942, both politically oriented as well as those reflecting authentic folk traditions. The albums "Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Songs" and "Sod Buster Ballads" were trailblazers in documenting traditional American folk songs from, respectively, Pete Seeger's seafaring New England ancestors and frontier songs from the plains of Woody Guthrie's Southwest. The album "Songs of the Lincoln Battalion" commemorated the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), in which German and Italian fascist forces succeeded in overthrowing the democratically elected Republic of Spain.

Tracklist:

1 Blow Ye Winds High - O
2 Haul Away Joe
3 Blow The Man Down
4 The Golden Vanity
5 Away Rio
6 Coast Of High Barbary
7 The Dodger Song
8 Ground Hog
9 State Of Arkansas
10 Hard, Ain't It Hard
11 I Ride An Old Paint
12 House Of The Rising Sun
13 Boontown Bill
14 Keep That Oil A-Rollin'
15 Viva La Quince Brigada
16 Jarama Valley
17 Spanish Marching Song
18 Cookhouse; The Young Man From Alcala
19 Quinto Regimiento
20 Quartermaster Song


The Almanac Singers - The Sea, The Soil & The Struggle
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