The Best of Broadside 1962-1988

Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine

Smithsonian Folkways – SFW CD 40130

Format: 5 x CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2000
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Disk One}
01 Links on the Chain: The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs (4:15)
02 Blowin' in the Wind: The New World Singers (2:32)
03 Paths of Victory: The Broadside Singers (1:38)
04 The Ballad of Ira Hayes: Peter La Farge (3:35)
05 Ain't That News?: The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton (1:40)
06 The Times I've Had: The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs (2:53)
07 Go Limp: Matt McGinn (2:33)
08 Ding Dong Dollar: The Glasgow Song Guild (1:58)
09 Mack the Bomb: Pete Seeger (2:40)
10 The Civil Defense Sign: Mark Spoelstra (3:50)
11 Let Me Die in My Footsteps: Happy Traum and Bob Dylan (3:42)
12 Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette: Jim Page (4:52)
13 What Have They Done to the Rain?: Malvina Reynolds (2:18)
14 Ballad of William Worthy: Phil Ochs (2:09)
15 Train for Auschwitz: Tom Paxton (3:50)
16 Do as the Doukhobors Do: Pete Seeger (2:12)
17 Christine: The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton (2:21)
18 As Long as the Grass Shall Grow: Peter La Farge (5:06)
[Disk Two]
01 John Brown: Bob Dylan (4:19)
02 Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew): Bonnie Dobson (4:19)
03 The Willing Conscript: Pete Seeger (2:16)
04 Kill for Peace: The Fugs (2:12)
05 Plains of Nebrasky-o: Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs (2:50)
06 Benny Kid Paret: Gil Turner (3:44)
07 What Did You Learn in School Today?: Tom Paxton (2:01)
08 Changin' Hands: The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs (2:40)
09 Welcome, Welcome Emigranté: The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie (2:06)
10 Shady Acres: Janis Ian (3:24)
11 Lord, Hold Back the Waters: Will McLean (3:50)
12 Ballad of Donald White: Bob Dylan (4:31)
13 Song for Patty: Sammy Walker (5:54)
14 A Very Close Friend of Mine: Richard Black (2:35)
15 Long Time Troubled Road: Eric Andersen (3:22)
16 Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall: Pete Seeger (5:19)
[Disk Three]
01 Mississippi Goddam: Nina Simone (4:59)
02 We'll Never Turn Back: The Freedom Singers (3:34)
03 Freedom Riders: Phil Ochs (2:15)
04 Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon): The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler (3:49)
05 Baby, I've Been Thinking (Society's Child): Janis Ian (2:44)
06 I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail: Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon (5:03)
07 The Ballad Of Martin Luther King: Mike Millius (2:57)
08 Carry It On: The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler (3:17)
09 Birmingham Sunday: Richard Fariña (4:01)
10 The Migrant's Song: Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira (5:08)
11 El Picket Sign: El Teatro Campesino (3:15)
12 La Lucha Continuará: Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood (5:26)
13 Contra La Por (Against Fear): Raimon (1:55)
14 Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter: Pete Seeger (2:23)
15 If It Wasn't For The Union: Matt McGinn (2:57)
16 More Good Men Going Down: The Broadside Singers with David Blue (3:00)
17 Sundown: Sis Cunningham (5:56)
18 My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away): Sis Cunningham (5:01)
19 Draglines: Deborah Silverstein & The New Harmony Sisterhood Band (3:22)
320 My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms: Pete Seeger (2:05)
[Disk Four]
01 Pinkville Helicopter: Thom Parrott (3:50)
02 Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go: Matt Jones and Elaine Laron (3:28)
03 We Seek No Wider War: Phil Ochs (4:19)
04 Waist Deep In The Big Muddy: Pete Seeger (3:03)
05 Vietnam: Paul Kaplan (5:45)
06 Hole In The Ground: Thom Parrott (3:53)
07 To Be A Killer: Wes Houston (1:51)
08 New York J-D Blues: Pete Seeger (6:00)
09 Little Boxes: Malvina Reynolds (2:11)
10 Not Enough To Live On But A Little Too Much To Die: Mike Millius (2:21)
11 The Faucets Are Dripping: Malvina Reynolds (3:51)
12 Bizzness Ain't Dead: The New World Singers (2:31)
13 Business: Pete Seeger (2:07)
14 Legal-Illegal: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger (4:10)
15 Brown Water And Blood: Jeff Ampolsk (3:50)
16 The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy: Thom Parrott (5:11)
17 Lafayette: Lucinda Williams (3:48)
18 The Ballad Of Earl Durand: Charlie Brown (7:23)
19 Plastic Jesus: Ernie Marrs, Bud Foote, Eleanor Walden, and Danny Smith (3:40)
[Disk Five]
01 Burn, Baby, Burn: Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (4:16)
02 The Cities Are Burning: Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (3:45)
03 Nothing But His Blood: Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (2:56)
04 You're Just A Laughing Fool: Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (3:26)
05 Time Is Running Out: Wendy Smith (2:56)
06 But If I Ask Them: Sis Cunningham (4:49)
07 Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy: Sammy Walker (2:47)
08 Changes: Phil Ochs (4:19)
09 Bound For Glory: Sammy Walker and Phil Ochs (4:06)
10 Victor Jara: Arlo Guthrie (4:20)
11 We Will Never Give Up: Kristin Lems (3:49)
12 Inez: Bev Grant and the Human Condition (3:00)
13 Gonna Be An Engineer: Peggy Seeger (4:32)
14 Don't Talk To Strangers: Chris Gaylord (7:34)
15 Catcher In The Rye: Sammy Walker (4:40)
16 The Time Will Come: Elaine White (4:51)
[Credits]
Producer and Liner Notes: Ronald D. Cohen and Jeff Place, Liner Notes: Anthony Seeger, Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
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. Broadside 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.

Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways, Vol. 2

Smithsonian Folkways – SFW40148

Series: Smithsonian Folkways Classic Series
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Blues
[Tracklist]
01 Dark Road: Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry (2:46)
02 Step It Up and Go: Warner Williams (2:38)
03 It Was Early One Morning: Lead Belly (2:27)
04 Blues - Until My Baby Comes Home: Nora Lee King and Mary Lou Williams (2:55)
05 That's No Way to Do: Pink Anderson (2:25)
06 Farro Street Jive: Little Brother Montgomery (2:18)
07 I Ain't Gonna Cry No More (Depot Blues): Son House (2:59)
08 Graveyard Blues: Roscoe Holcomb (3:02)
09 44 Blues: Roosevelt Sykes (2:45)
10 Big Fat Mama: David "Honeyboy" Edwards (2:59)
11 Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor: Lucinda Williams (3:53)
12 Lieutenant Blues: Thomas McFarland (Barrelhouse Buck) (2:40)
13 The Woman Is Killing Me: Sonny Terry and Friends (2:26)
14 Little Drops of Water: Edith North Johnson and Henry Brown (3:09)
15 When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too): Big Bill Broonzy (3:01)
16 Poor Boy a Long, Long Way From Home: Cat-Iron (2:47)
17 My Jack Don't Drink Water No More: Shortstuff Macon (3:44)
18 'Way Behind the Sun: Barbara Dane (3:51)
19 Tell Me, Baby: Lightnin' Hopkins (2:36)
20 Just A Dream: Memphis Slim (4:15)
21 Jelly Jelly: Josh White (2:29)
22 Down in the Alley: Chambers Brothers (3:07)
[Credits]
Compiler and Liner Notes: Barry Lee Pearson, Photographer: Pat Terry, Mastering Engineer: Pete Reiniger
[Notes]
For over a century, the blues have continually forged new musical alliances and pushed against boundaries, reaping rich harvests from infusions of diversity, innovation and vitality. With a spark of rock, or a nod to jazz, the blues stay true in spirit and perpetual in their ability to strike a common chord with listeners. On Classic Blues Vol. 2, Lucinda Williams, Roscoe Holcomb and Nora Lee King stand alongside all-time blues greats such as Lead Belly, Son House, and Lightnin' Hopkins. No matter if you prefer your blues raw, acoustic, electric, solo or from a live band, a jukebox or a jook joint, as the blues poet J. Williamsonce put it, "The blues is good news. Pass it on." Extensive notes. 22 tracks. 64 minutes.

Lucinda Williams: Happy Woman Blues

Smithsonian Folkways – SF 40003

Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissued
Country: US
Released: 1990
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Blues, Folk, Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Lafayette (3:40)
A2 I Lost It (2:52)
A3 Maria (3:45)
A4 Happy Woman Blues (3:08)
A5 King Of Hearts (4:02)
B1 Rolling Along (2:46)
B2 One Night Stand (2:53)
B3 Howlin' At Midnight (3:49)
B4 Hard Road (2:29)
B5 Louisiana Man (2:23)
B6 Sharp Cutting Wings (Song To A Poet) (3:26)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (guitar/vocals) Mickey White (guitar/chorus) Rex Bell (bass/chorus) Malcolm Smith (fiddle/viola) Uncle Mickey Moody (steel guitar) Ira Wilkes (drums)
[Notes]
Lucinda Williams, whose musical style defies easy categorization, recorded her first album of original songs in 1980, supported by a six-member band. Her songs are a mix of traditional and alternative country, folk, and blues that reflect her Louisiana roots. The Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau gave Happy Woman Blues an "A–" and described Williams as a "guileless throwback to the days of the acoustic blues mamas" who "means what she says and says what she means." The vinyl reissue of Happy Woman Blues, which includes a liner notes booklet with the song lyrics, is part of the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, revisiting some of the most iconic and influential albums in our collection. For a limited time, we are offering Elizabeth Cotten's Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, Lucinda Williams's Happy Woman Blues, and Mary Lou Williams as a Vinyl Bundle with Bonus Folkways Slipmat.

Sing Me Back Home: The Music Of Merle Haggard

Blackbird Presents – 8914027545

Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2020
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
01 What Am I Gonna Do (With The Rest Of My Life): Ben Haggard (4:54)
02 Heaven Was A Drink Of Wine: Ben Haggard & Aaron Lewis (4:04)
03 The Farmer's Daughter: Tanya Tucker (2:55)
04 I'm A Lonesome Fugitive: Bobby Bare (3:30)
05 0That's The Way Love Goes: Connie Smith (3:00)
06 Big City: John Anderson (3:05)
07 Carolyn/Daddy Frank: Toby Keith (4:10)
08 Don't Give Up On Me: Buddy Miller (3:10)
09 Footlights: Jake Owen & Chris Janson (4:26)
10 Going Where The Lonely Go: Lucinda Williams (3:39)
11 Kern River: Jamey Johnson (4:46)
12 Silver Wings: Alabama (1:52)
13 I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink: Hank Williams, Jr. (2:18)
14 Today I Started Loving You Again: Loretta Lynn (2:32)
15 Honky Tonk Night Time Man: Lynyrd Skynyrd (4:18)
16 Mama Tried: The Avett Brothers (3:02)
17 White Line Fever: John Mellencamp (4:53)
18 Rainbow Stew: Kacey Musgraves (2:28)
19 It's All In The Movies: Ronnie Dunn (3:19)
20 The Bottle Let Me Down: Billy F Gibbons (2:50)
21 Workin' Man Blues: Billy F Gibbons & Warren Haynes (6:04)
22 If We Make It Through December: Dierks Bentley (2:35)
23 Natural High: Sheryl Crow (3:32)
24 Misery And Gin: Miranda Lambert (3:01)
25 Pancho And Lefty: Willie Nelson & Kenny Chesney (4:38)
26 Sing Me Back Home: Keith Richards (5:14)
27 Reasons To Quit: Keith Richards & Willie Nelson (3:45)
28 Ramblin' Fever: Willie Nelson & Toby Keith (2:57)
29 Okie From Muskogee: Various (1:35)
[Credits]
Executive-Producer: Keith Wortman, Mark Rothbaum, Theresa Haggard, Music Director: Ben Haggard, Buddy Cannon, Don Was
[Notes]
Recorded Live On April 6th, 2017 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The lineup for the Merle Haggard tribute concert—dubbed Sing Me Back Home. The Music of Merle Haggard—just got a little bigger with the addition of Sheryl Crow and Rolling Stones guitarist/vocalist Keith Richards. "Stuff happens, but you just have to be your own man, and have something to say," said Keith in a statement.

Lucinda Williams: West

Lost Highway B0006938-02

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Rock
[Tracklist]
01 Are You Alright? (5:18)
02 Mama You Sweet (4:44)
03 Learning How To Live (5:11)
04 Fancy Funeral (4:14)
05 Unsuffer Me (5:40)
06 Everything Has Changed (3:38)
07 Come On (4:53)
08 Where Is My Love? (5:22)
09 Rescue (5:34)
10 What If (5:41)
11 Wrap My Head Around That (9:06)
12 Words (3:32)
13 West (5:44)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (guitar/vocals) Bill Frisell, Doug Pettibone (guitar) Jenny Scheinman (violin) Rob Brophy (viola) Tim Loo (cello) Tony Garnier (bass) Jim Keltner (drums/percussion) Rob Burger (piano/organ/accordion)
Producer: Tom Overby and Hal Willner, Photographer: Margaret Malandruccolo, Annie Leibovitz and Alan Messer, Designer: Karen Naff
[Notes]
The title of West reflects the change in Lucinda Williams' life as she moved to Los Angeles. It also reflects what had been left behind. Williams is nothing if not a purely confessional songwriter. She continually walks in the shadowlands to bring out what is both most personal yet universal in her work, to communicate to listeners directly and without compromise. If Essence and World Without Tears took chances and stated different sides of the songwriter and her world, West jumps off the ledge into the sky of freedom, where anything can be said without worry of consequence and where anything can be said in any way she wishes. It's entirely appropriate that West was released on the day before Valentine's Day 2007, for it's a record about the heart, about its volumes of brokenness, about its acceptance of its state, and how, with the scars still visible to the bearer, it opens wider and becomes the font of love itself. But the journey is a dark one. First there's the music and the production. Williams chose Hal Willner to produce West. Williams, who'd been writing a lot, demoed some songs before she brought in Willner. He stripped down the demos but kept the scratch vocals. From there, the pair created the rest of the album together, never re-recording Williams' initial vocals. The vocals were accompanied by her guitar playing; Willner wanted her inherent phrasing and rhythmic flow. Willner also brought his own crew to play with Williams. This collaboration -- as unlikely as it might seem on the surface -- results in something utterly different and yet unmistakably Lucinda Williams. West is a warm, inviting, yet very dark record about grief, the loss of love, anger at a lover who cannot deliver, and embracing the possibility of change. In other words, it's not without its redemptive moments. Williams has put all of her qualities on display at once with an unbridled and unbowed sense of adventure here on her eighth album. She, her bandmates, and Willner have come up with exactly what pop music needs: a real work of art based in contemporary forms and feelings. West is an album that will no doubt attract more than a few new fans, and will give old ones, if they are open enough, a recording to relish. -- AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

Lucinda Williams: Ramblin'

Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40042

Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 2005
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Country Blues
[Tracklist]
01 Ramblin' On My Mind (2:30)
02 Me And My Chauffeur (3:12)
03 Motherless Children (3:31)
04 Malted Milk Blues (2:29)
05 Disgusted (2:28)
06 Jug Band Music (2:22)
07 Stop Breakin' Down (3:20)
08 Drop Down Daddy (3:23)
09 Little Darling Pal Of Mine (2:59)
10 Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor (3:50)
11 Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (3:05)
12 Great Speckled Bird (2:55)
13 You're Gonna Need That Pure Religion (3:07)
14 Satisfied Mind (4:06)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (12-string guitar/vocals) John Grimaudo (guitar)
Producer: Tom Royals, Liner Notes: John Morthland, Designer: Carol Hardy, Engineer: Gerald "Wolf" Stephenson, Malcolm Addey and Matt Walters
[Notes]
Recorded at Malaco Studios, Jackson, MS, Sept. 1978. The first recordings from an artist with a gift for interpreting original blues from Robert Johnson to Memphis Minnie to The Carter Family. Williams’s unmistakable sound is powerfully direct and filled with melancholy and passion. 43 minutes. "The quintessential recording of Lucinda Williams.... An unbelievably soulful...vocalist." — Montana State University Exponent "The quintessential recording of Lucinda Williams.... An unbelievably soulful...vocalist."-- Montana State University Exponent

Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Mercury P2-58338

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Country, Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Right In Time (4:35)
02 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (4:44)
03 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (4:42)
04 Drunken Angel (3:20)
05 Concrete And Barbed Wire (3:08)
06 Lake Charles (5:28)
07 Can't Let Go (3:28)
08 I Lost It (3:31)
09 Metal Firecracker (3:30)
10 Greenville (3:23)
11 Still I Long For Your Kiss (4:09)
12 Joy (4:01)
13 Jackson (3:42)
[Credits]
Lucinda Williams (guitar/vocals) Jim Lauderdale (vocals) Buddy Miller, Steve Earle, Bo Ramsey, Buddy Miller, Charlie Sexton, Gurf Morlix, Johnny Lee Schell, Bo Ramsey, Buddy Miller, Charlie Sexton, Gurf Morlix and Johnny Lee Schell (guitar) Buddy Miller (mandoguitar) Roy Bittan (accordion) Roy Bittan (organ) John Ciambotti (bass) Donald Lindley (drums)
Producer: Roy Bittan, Designer: Jeffdidthis, Art Directer: Margery Greenspan, Photographers: Miller Williams, Birney Imes, Shelby Lee Adams and Alan Messer, Engineers: Ed Thacker, Steve Churchyard, Hank Williams, Jim Scott and Rick Rubin
[Notes]
It's not that the performances on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road aren't first-rate — they are. It's just that when you start with songs this impressive, it's hard to go wrong. Lucinda Williams had done strong work before, but it all came together here. From the openhearted yearning of "Right in Time" to the surrealist country funk of "Joy," she runs a gamut of styles and themes, handling each with authority and ease. You don't arrive in your mid-forties without stories to tell — Williams' are riveting in every detai. (Rolling Stone)

Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute

Lost Highway 088 170 239-2

Format: CD, HDCD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Rock, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Rock & Roll
[Tracklist]
01 I Can't Get You off of My Mind: Bob Dylan (2:57)
02 Long Gone Lonesome Blues: Sheryl Crow (2:56)
03 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry: Keb' Mo' (4:01)
04 Your Cheatin' Heart: Beck (3:41)
05 Lost on the River: Mark Knopfler & His Band with Emmylou Harris (3:03)
06 You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave): Tom Petty (3:11)
07 You Win Again: Keith Richards (4:30)
08 Alone and Forsaken: Emmylou Harris with Mark Knopfler & His Band (3:32)
09 I'm a Long Gone Daddy: Hank Williams III (3:37)
10 Lovesick Blues: Cliff Friend / Irving Mills Ryan Adams (3:23)
11 Cold, Cold Heart: Lucinda Williams (5:08)
12 I Dreamed About Mama Last Night: Johnny Cash (3:13)
[Credits]
Producers: Bonnie Garner, Luke Lewis and Mary Martin, Art Directers: Jim Kemp and Luke Lewis, Designner: Craig Allen, Engneers: Hank Williams and Al Willis
[Notes]
Many tribute albums act as secret promotional tools for the individual labels to push some of their lesser-known artists on the coattails of their heavy hitters. Fortunately, nothing could be further from the truth on Lost Highway's all-star tribute to Hank Williams, Timeless. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, and Keith Richards are among the seasoned performers who offer their heartfelt interpretations of Williams' songs, as well as inspired choices from younger artists, including Beck, Ryan Adams, and the grandson of the man being celebrated, Hank Williams III. The songs themselves range from Sheryl Crow's faithful re-recording of "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" to Beck's stripped-down and quirky collaboration with producer Jon Brion on "Your Cheatin' Heart." While the more traditional country songs are entertaining and well-done, the real strong points are the looser, more raw contributions. Keith Richards' boozy rip through "You Win Again" is as intimate and stumbling as ole Hank on his last nights, and hard-livin' torchbearer Ryan Adams' living-room recording of "Lovesick Blues" resonates with the singer's own youthful weariness. The album ends with Lucinda Williams' (no relation) sparse and chilling "Cold, Cold Heart" and Johnny Cash's tender recitation of "I Dreamed About Mama Last Night." While many tribute collections seem disjointed and disappointing, Timeless pulls together some of the most interesting artists available, and their performances, while varied, all display a passionate devotion to the music of one of country's true legends. (AllMusic Review by Zac Johnson)