Best of Broadside 1962-1988

by BEST OF BROADSIDE 1962-1988 / V

Overview

From the early '60s to the late '80s, Broadside magazine printed numerous topical songs by contemporary writers, in addition to articles and commentary. By far the most influential years of its life span were the earliest ones, in the early to mid-'60s, when it helped steer the folk movement toward original material that directly addressed modern society and social injustice. This five-CD box set is an important document of Broadside's contribution to 20th century American popular music. The Broadside LPs included material by emerging songwriters that didn't show up on those performers' own albums, and undoubtedly this box will get its most attention for featuring some of those items by Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, and Eric Andersen. If you're a committed 1960s folk collector, there are a number of such goodies for cherry-picking here. From a wider perspective, however, this anthology is an important record of how social consciousness as a whole grew within American popular music, especially in the 1960s. Don't get the idea this is all great stuff; there are too many obscure strident singer/songwriters, in the mold of Dylan and others, singing dry, didactic, unmelodic tunes with unimaginative plain arrangements. Broadside also missed the boat almost entirely as far as folk-rock and socially conscious rock was concerned, with rare exceptions. When the Fugs' "Kill for Peace" blasts off, it's such a refreshing change to hear an all-out rocker you can move to, though that's definitely not the rule on this anthology. Nevertheless, there's much good music here, and certainly as a whole it's an incredible history lesson, with more than 150 pages of liner notes detailing the magazine, its founders, the performers, and each of the songs. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	09/12/2000
Label:	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
UPC:	0093074013021
Rank:	97029

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Links on the Chain  -  Broadside Singers  - Phil Ochs
2. Blowin' in the Wind  - Bob Dylan  -  New World Singers
3. Paths of Victory  -  Broadside Singers  - Bob Dylan
4. The Ballad of Ira Hayes  - Peter LaFarge
5. Ain't That News?  -  Broadside Singers  - Tom Paxton
6. The Times I've Had  -  Broadside Singers  - Mark Spoelstra
7. Go Limp  - Alex Comfort  - Matt McGinn
8. Ding Dong Dollar  -  Glasgow Song Guild
9. Mack the Bomb  - Nancy Schimmel  - Pete Seeger  - Kurt Weill
10. The Civil Defense Sign  - Mark Spoelstra
11. Let Me Die in My Footsteps  - Bob Dylan  - Happy Traum
12. Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette  - Jim Page
13. What Have They Done to the Rain?  - Malvina Reynolds
14. Ballad of William Worthy  - Phil Ochs
15. Train for Auschwitz  - Tom Paxton
16. Do as the Doukhobors Do  - Malvina Reynolds  - Pete Seeger
17. Christine  -  Broadside Singers  - Matt McGinn  - Tom Paxton
18. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow  - Peter LaFarge

Disc 2

19. John Brown  - Bob Dylan
20. Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew)  - Bonnie Dobson
21. The Willing Conscript  - Tom Paxton  - Pete Seeger
22. Kill for Peace  -  Fugs
23. Plains of Nebrasky-O  - Eric Andersen  - Phil Ochs
24. Benny Kid Peace  - Len Chandler  - Gil Turner
25. What Did You Learn in School Today?  - Tom Paxton
26. Changin' Hands  - Phil Ochs
27. Welcome, Welcome Emigrante  -  Broadside Singers  - Buffy Sainte-Marie
28. Shady Acres  - Janis Ian
29. Lord, Hold Back the Waters  - Will McLean  - William McLean
30. Ballad of Donald White  - Bob Dylan
31. Song for Patty  - Sammy Walker
32. A Very Close Friend of Mine  - Richard Black
33. Long Time Troubled Road  - Eric Andersen
34. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall  - Bob Dylan  - Pete Seeger

Disc 3

35. Mississippi Goddam  - Nina Simone
36. We'll Never Turn Back  -  Freedom Singers
37. Freedom Riders  - Phil Ochs
38. Father's Grace  -  Broadside Singers  - Len Chandler
39. Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)  - Janis Ian
40. I'm Gonna Get My Baby Out of Jail  - Len Chandler  - Bernice Johnson Reagon
41. The Ballard of Martin Luther King  - Mike Millius
42. Carry It On  -  Broadside Singers  - Len Chandler
43. Birmingham Sunday  - Richard Farina
44. The Migrant's Song  - Peter Krug  - Agustin Lira  - Danny Valdez
45. El Picket Sign  -  Treato Campesino  - Luis Valdez
46. La Lucha Continuara  - Danny Rose-Redwood
47. Cantra la Pro  - Raimon Padilla
48. Mrs. Clara  - Pete Seeger  -  Sullivan's Letter
49. If It Wasn't for the Union  - Matt McGuinn
50. More Good Men Going Down  -  Broadside Singers
51. Sundown  - Agnes "Sis" Cunningham
52. My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)  - Agnes "Sis" Cunningham
53. Drag Lines  -  New Harmony Sisterhood Band  - Deb Silverstein
54. My Father's Mansions  - Pete Seeger

Disc 4

55. Pinkville Helicopter  - Thom Parrott
56. Hell No, I Ain't Going Go  - Matt Jones  - Elaine Laron
57. We Seek No Wider War  - Phil Ochs
58. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy  - Pete Seeger
59. Vietman  - Paul Kaplan
60. Hole in the Ground  - Thom Parrott
61. To Be a Killer  - Wes Houston
62. New York J-D Blues  - Pete Seeger
63. Little Boxes  - Malvina Reynolds
64. Not Enough to Live on But Too Much to Die  -  Milluis  - Michael Strange
65. The Faucets Are Dripping  - Malvina Reynolds
66. Bizzness Ain't Dead  - Woody Guthrie  -  New World Singers
67. Business  - Pete Seeger
68. Legal-Illegal  - Walter Lowenfel  - Ewan MacColl  - Pete Seeger
69. Brown Water and Blood  - Jeff Ampolsk
70. The Aberfan Coal Tio Tragedy  - Thom Parrott
71. Lafayette  - Lucinda Williams
72. The Ballard of the Earl Durand  - Charles Brown
73. Plastic Jesus  - George Cromarty

Disc 5

74. Burn, Baby, Bur  - Jim Collier  - F.D. Kirkpatrick
75. The Cities Are Burning  - Jim Collier  - F.D. Kirkpatrick
76. Nothing But His Blood  - F.D. Kirkpatrick
77. You're Just a Laughing Fool  - Jim Collier  - F.D. Kirkpatrick
78. Time Is Running Out  - Wendy Smith
79. But If I Ask Them  - Agnes "Sis" Cunningham
80. Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy  - Sammy Walker
81. Changes  - Phil Ochs
82. Bound for Glory  - Phil Ochs
83. Victor Jara  - Arlo Guthrie
84. We Will Never Give Up  - Kristin Lems
85. Inez  - Bev Grant  -  Human Condition
86. I'm Gonna Be an Engineer  - Peggy Seeger
87. Don't Talk to Strangers  - Chris Gaylord
88. Catcher in the Rye  - Sammy Walker
89. The Time Will Come  - Elaine D. White

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Pete Seeger   Primary Artist
Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick   Primary Artist
Peter La Farge   Primary Artist
Phil Ochs   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Jim Page   Primary Artist
The Fugs   Primary Artist
Eric Andersen   Primary Artist
Charles Brown   Primary Artist
Peggy Seeger   Primary Artist,Concertina
Paul Kaplan   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Bev Grant   Primary Artist
Janis Ian   Primary Artist
Len Chandler   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Wendy Smith   Primary Artist,Organ,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica
Danny Rose-Redwood   Primary Artist
Mike Millius   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Harmonica
Human Condition   Primary Artist
Danny Valdez   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
William McLean   Primary Artist
Sullivan's Letter   Primary Artist
Richard Farina   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Buffy Sainte-Marie   Primary Artist
Happy Traum   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Gil Turner   Primary Artist
The Glasgow Song Guild   Primary Artist
Malvina Reynolds   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Lucinda Williams   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Bob Dylan   Primary Artist
The Freedom Singers   Primary Artist
Bonnie Dobson   Primary Artist
Kristin Lems   Primary Artist
El Treato Campesino   Primary Artist
Elaine D. White   Primary Artist
Jeff Ampolsk   Primary Artist
Michael Strange   Primary Artist
Elaine Laron   Primary Artist
Agustin Lira   Primary Artist
Agnes "Sis" Cunningham   Primary Artist
Chris Gaylord   Primary Artist
Jim Collier   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Wes Houston   Primary Artist
Matt McGuinn   Primary Artist
Richard Black   Primary Artist
Matt Jones   Primary Artist
Matt McGinn   Primary Artist
Raimon Padilla   Primary Artist
New Harmony Sisterhood Band   Primary Artist
Nina Simone   Primary Artist,Piano,Vocals
The Broadside Singers   Primary Artist
Mark Spoelstra   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
The New World Singers   Primary Artist
Thom Parrott   Primary Artist
Arlo Guthrie   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Tom Paxton   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Deb Silverstein   Primary Artist
Sammy Walker   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica
Vinny Leary   Guitar
Bobby Hamilton   Drums
Ed Sanders   Vocals
Tuli Kupferberg   Vocals
Dick Rosmini   Guitar
Lisle Atkinson   Bass
Bob Glaub   Bass
Rob Moitoza   Bass
Mickey White   Bass
Lee Crabtree   Piano
Ewan MacColl   Vocals
Erik Darling   Guitar
Don Robertson   Guitar
Rex Bell   Guitar
Pete Kearney   Guitar
Bob Norman   Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Brian Davies   Guitar
Calum MacColl   Guitar
Malcolm Smith   Fiddle
Gene Hicks   Violin
Don Thomas   Bass
Ira Wilkes   Drums
Andre Matthews   Guitar
Bob Cohen   Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Pete Reiniger   Liner Notes
Sammy Walker   Composer
Peter La Farge   Composer,Performer
Phil Ochs   Composer
Jim Page   Composer,Performer
The Fugs   Performer
Eric Andersen   Composer,Performer
Jeff Place   Producer,Annotation,Liner Notes
Peggy Seeger   Composer
Bev Grant   Composer,Performer
Bernice Johnson Reagon   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer,Performer
Janis Ian   Composer,Performer
Len Chandler   Composer
Wendy Smith   Composer
Pete Seeger   Composer,Performer
Human Condition   Performer
Walter Lowenfel   Composer
William McLean   Performer
David Gahr   Photography
Jeff Carroll   Transfers
Sullivan's Letter   Performer
Richard Farina   Composer
Marshall "Rock" Jones   Musician
Matt Jones   Composer,Performer
Buffy Sainte-Marie   Performer
Gil Turner   Composer,Performer
The Glasgow Song Guild   Performer
Malvina Reynolds   Composer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Lucinda Williams   Composer
Peter Krug   Composer
Mark Spoelstra   Composer
The Freedom Singers   Performer
Bonnie Dobson   Composer,Performer
Kristin Lems   Composer,Performer
Ewan MacColl   Composer
El Treato Campesino   Performer
Elaine D. White   Performer
Jeff Ampolsk   Composer,Performer
Michael Strange   Performer
Elaine Laron   Performer,Composer
James Peacock   Musician
Diana Davis   Photography
Agustin Lira   Performer
Gordon Friesen   Illustrations
Luis Valdez   Composer
Agnes "Sis" Cunningham   Composer,Performer
George Cromarty   Composer
Danny Rose-Redwood   Composer,Performer
Chris Gaylord   Composer,Performer
Alex Comfort   Composer
Jim Collier   Composer,Liner Notes
Wes Houston   Composer,Performer
Will McLean   Composer
Matt McGuinn   Composer,Performer
Nancy Schimmel   Composer
Tom Parrott   Performer
Richard Black   Composer,Performer
Matt McGinn   Composer,Performer
Raimon Padilla   Composer,Performer
New Harmony Sisterhood Band   Performer
Nina Simone   Composer,Photography
Woody Guthrie   Composer
Anthony Seeger   Liner Notes
The Broadside Singers   Performer
The New World Singers   Performer
Mike Milluis   Composer
Thom Parrott   Composer
Tom Paxton   Composer,Liner Notes
Deb Silverstein   Performer
Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick   Performer