Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
101 Working Class Woman (5:42)
102 Millworker (3:25)
103 Factory Girl (2:54)
104 Truck-Driving Woman (5:04)
105 In the Earth, In the Grasses (4:30)
201 Unemployment Compensation Blues (3:09)
202 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (2:58)
203 You Will Be Paid (3:09)
204 Song to a Child (4:03)
205 When We Make it Through (5:33)
[Credits]
Pablo Menendez (guitar/bass/harmonica/mandolin/percussion/synthesizer/vocals) Barbara Dane (guitar/vocals) Jorge Aragon (piano) Rafeel Sanchez (bass) Frank Padilla (drums) El Valdez (synthesizer) Lucia Huergo (piano/synthesizer/flute) Leopoldo Pons (percussion) Juan Carlos Valladares (piano) Silvia Acea (synthesizer) Jose Carlos Acosta (saxophone)
Producer and Liner Notes: Pablo Menendez, Liner Notes: Barbara Dane, Designer: Suellen Ehnebuske, Photographer: Earl Dotter
[Notes]
Folksinger and political activist Barbara Dane pays tribute to working class men and women in this collection of both original and cover recordings. Dane, once described by jazz critic Leonard Feather as "Bessie Smith in stereo," sings original songs like "Working Class Woman" and "In the Earth, in the Grasses" and covers the Depression-era classic "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" and James Taylor's "Millworker." Her son Pablo Menendez is featured prominently throughout, playing a multitude of instruments including acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, harmonica, mandolin, percussion, and synthesizer. Dane provides a written introduction followed by background information and complete musician credits for all tracks.
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