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.

Song for Patty by Sammy Walker

Broadside Records – BR 5310

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1975
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
101 Song for Patty (5:56)
102 Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy (2:45)
103 My Old Yearbook (6:38)
104 Little New Jersey Town (4:27)
105 I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore (2:16)
106 Closin' Time (3:46)
201 A Simple Hour Operation (5:23)
202 The Ballad of Johnny Strozier (5:17)
203 Funny Farm Blues (3:05)
204 Testimony of a Dying Lady (4:38)
205 Catcher in the Rye (4:40)
206 Bound for Glory (4:04)
[Credits]
Sammy Walker (guitar/vocals) Phil Ochs (guitar/vocals)
Producer: Phil Ochs, Photographer: Jolly Robinson
[Notes]
Sammy Walker recorded Songs from Woody's Pen in 1979, twelve years after Woody Guthrie died due to complications from Huntington's disease. Though the original recordings of these songs date back more than 30 years, Walker sings them in a traditional folk-revivalist manner reminiscent of Guthrie’s social conscience and sense of humor. Speaking of Guthrie, Sammy Walker said, "I can't think of hardly anyone who has had as much influence on my own singing and songwriting as Woody." This is Walker's enduring record of that influence.

Broadside Ballads, Vol. 3: The Broadside Singers

Broadside Records – BR 303

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Struggle & Protest
[Tracklist]
A1 Ain't That News: The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton (1:41)
A2 More Good Men Goin' Down: The Broadside Singers with Dave Cohen (2:57)
A3 Times I've Had: The Broadside Singers with Mark Spoelstra (2:54)
A4 Paths of Victory: The Broadside Singers with Bob Dylan (1:41)
A5 Christine: The Broadside Singers with Matt McGinn (2:22)
A6 Rattlesnake: The Broadside Singers with Peter La Farge (4:22)
A7 Carry It On: The Broadside Singers with Gil Turner (3:22)
B1 Links on the Chain: The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs (4:12)
B2 Causes: The Broadside Singers with Pat Sky (3:22)
B3 Immigrante: The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie (2:26)
B4 The Faucets are Dripping: The Broadside Singers wth Malvina Reynolds (2:43)
B5 Father's Grave - For Cordell Reagon: The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler (3:50)
B6 The Scruggs Picker: The Broadside Singers with Ernie Marrs (0:50)
B7 Plains of Nebrasky-O: The Broadside Singers with Eric Andersen (2:53)
B8 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Broadside Singers (4:21)
[Credits]
Liner Notes: Phil Ochs, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
The songs on this 15-track album were contributed to Broadside Magazine by folk singer-songwriters during the early 1960s and are performed by the Broadside Singers. Featured in the collection are Tom Paxton's "Ain't That News," Bob Dylan's "Paths of Victory," Peter La Farge's "Rattlesnake," Phil Ochs' "Links on the Chain," "Immigrante," Malvina Reynolds' "The Faucets Are Dripping," and Eric Anderson's "Plains of Nebrasky-O." There is also a brief (50-second) song entitled "The Scruggs Picker," a tongue-in-cheek song-poem about banjo players. The liner notes, written by Phil Ochs, include the lyrics and music of the songs.

Broadside Ballads Vol. 1

Broadside Records – BR 301

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1963
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Blowing in the Wind: The New World Singers (2:33)
A2 The Ballad of Old Monroe: Pete Seeger (5:15)
A3 John Brown: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (4:24)
A4 As Long as the Grass Shall Grow: Peter La Farge (5:10)
A5 The Ballad of William Worthy: Phil Ochs (2:11)
A6 Benny Kid Paret: Gil Turner (3:45)
B1 Faubus Foibles: Peter La Farge (1:49)
B2 I Will Not Go Down Under the Ground: Happy Traum with Bob Dylan (3:42)
B3 Only a Hobo: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (2:01)
B4 Talking Devil: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (0:53)
B5 Ain't Gonna Let Segregation Turn Us Around: The Freedom Singers (2:36)
B6 Go Limp: Matt McGinn (2:32)
B7 Bizzness Ain't Dead: The New World Singers (2:32)
B8 The Civil Defense Sign: Mark Spoelstra (3:53)
B9 I Can See a New Day: The New World Singers (4:00)
[Credits]
Producer: Sis Cunningham, Liner Notes: Gordon Friesen
[Notes]
First released in 1963, and later reissued by Smithsonian Folkways to commemorate the folk publication Broadside Magazine, Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 features artists such as Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan), Peter La Farge, Phil Ochs, and Pete Seeger. With topical songs that vary in subject from civil rights to Vietnam and the nuclear arms race, Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 is at once a staunch and elucidating account of a generation at odds with the world around it. Recorded in Broadside’s cramped New York apartment, the album is spontaneous and intimate in approach and features vocals, guitar, banjo, and drums. Contains the tracks "The Ballad of Old Monroe," "Faubus Foibles," "I Will Not Go Down Under the Ground (Let Me Die in My Footsteps)," "Only a Hobo," "Talking Devil," "Ain’t Gonna Let Segregation Turn Us Around," and "I Can See a New Day," which are not on The Best of Broadside 1962-1988.

Broadside Ballads Vol. 6: Broadside Reunion

Broadside Records – BR 315

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1972
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 Long Time Troubled Road: Eric Andersen (3:30)
A02 Train A-Travelin': Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (2:04)
A03 Only Time Will Tell: Bobby Donaghey (1:58)
A04 Dreadful Day: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (1:04)
A05 I'm Goin' to Get My Baby Outa Jail: Len Chandler (5:05)
A06 Tate's Hell: Will McLean (2:52)
A07 A Very Close Friend of Mine: Richard Black (2:39)
A08 Moon Song: Mike Millius (1:48)
A09 Train for Auschwitz: Tom Paxton (3:53)
A10 Hunger and Cold: Phil Ochs (2:31)
B01 Changing Hands: Phil Ochs (2:43)
B02 Drums: Peter La Farge (7:59)
B03 The Ballad of Emmett Till: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (4:40)
B04 The Ballad of Donald White: Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan) (4:32)
B05 Ballad of Jesse James: Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, Wesley Houston and Friends (3:51)
[Credits]
Designer: Ronald Clyne, Photographer: Diana Davies
[Notes]
Released in 1972, after many of its artists had risen to international acclaim, Broadside Ballads, Vol. 6 contains previously unreleased songs that appeared in the folk publication Broadside Magazine, founded in 1962. With a lineup that includes Blind Boy Grunt (Bob Dylan), Peter La Farge, Phil Ochs, and Tom Paxton, Broadside Ballads, Vol. 6, is unique not only for its varied talent but also because of its source—the songs were mainly recorded during impromptu performances at Broadside's New York apartment throughout the 1960s with little more than guitar and vocals. One of the exceptions is "Drums," Peter La Farge's last public performance in Greenwich Village before his death in 1965.

Phil Ochs: The Broadside Tapes 1

Smithsonian Folkways – SF 40008

Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 Ballad Of Alferd Packer (2:11)
A2 If I Knew (2:18)
A3 Ballad Of John Henry Faulk (3:08)
A4 Spaceman (2:09)
A5 On My Way (1:40)
A6 Hazard, Kentucky (2:09)
A7 The Passing Of My Life (2:21)
A8 That's The Way It's Gonna Be (2:35)
B1 Rivers Of The Blood (1:59)
B2 Remember Me (2:22)
B3 Talking Pay T.V. (2:33)
B4 Christine Keeler (1:30)
B5 Spanish Civil War Song (2:11)
B6 Another Country (2:21)
B7 Time Was (1:38)
B8 I Shoulda Known Better (3:32)
[Credits]
Phil Ochs (guitar/vocals)
Producer: Paul Kaplan, Liner Notes: Jane Friesen, Photographer: David Gahr, Recorder: Gordon Friesen and Sis Cunningham
[Notes]
Recorded between 1962 and 1964, The Broadside Tapes 1 is a perfect showcase for Ochs' unique emotion, humor, and political perspective. This set features one of the most compelling voices of the '60s topical song movement performing 15 original songs, and a cover of The Beatles’ “I Should Have Known Better” performed live with Eric Andersen. Produced by Paul Kaplan. "Perhaps no American folksinger was more important in—and representative of—the '60s ...prime early Ochs at his topical best."

Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40197

Format:CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released:2009
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style:Folk
[Tracklist]
01 Freedom Now Chant: Mass-meeting Participants In Hattiesburg, Mississippi (0:26)
02 Jesus Christ: Woody Guthrie (2:37)
03 Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly (2:18)
04 Black, Brown, And White: Big Bill Broonzy (2:42)
05 Baby, I've Been Thinking: Janis Ian (2:41)
06 Blowin' In The Wind: The New World Singers (2:28)
07 This Land Is Your Land: Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee & Mark Dann (4:39)
08 Turn, Turn, Turn: Liz Getz (3:04)
09 As Long As The Grass Will Grow: Peter La Farge (5:07)
10 Talking Pay TV: Phil Ochs (2:34)
11 Masters Of War: The Bergerfolk (4:07)
12 Waist Deep In The Big Muddy: Pete Seeger (2:57)
13 Agent Orange: Peggy Seeger (3:51)
14 Strange Fruit: Brother John Sellers (2:20)
15 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live: New Lost City Ramblers (3:34)
16 I'm Going To Write The Governor Of Georgia: Champion Jack Dupree (3:13)
17 When We Make It Through: Barbara Dane (5:25)
18 Evicted Tenant: Sis Cunningham (2:06)
19 Corrido De César Chávez: Los Perros Del Pueblo Nuevo (3:02)
20 Gone, Gone, Gone: Red Shadow (2:14)
21 Spirits Of The Revolution: Larry Estridge (5:09)
22 We Shall Overcome: Guy Carawan (3:40)
[Credits]
Compiler: Mark Gustafson, Compiler and Liner Notes: Jeff Place, Engineer: Pete Reiniger, Photographer: Diana Davies
[Notes]
War, social injustice, personal plaints, and calls for action have long fueled musical creation and performance. In Classic Protest Songs, Mark Gustafson and Jeff Place tap the historic Smithsonian audio collections to compile 22 songs favored by leaders of antiwar, civil rights, industrial labor, farm worker, and other struggles to air their grievances. Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Janis Ian, Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Barbara Dane, Guy Carawan, Phil Ochs, and other marquee artists let their voices ring out with calls for peace and justice.

Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame

A&M Records SP-4599

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 1976
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A1 I Ain't Marchin' Anymore (Electric) (2:47)
A2 One More Parade (3:00)
A3 Draft Dodger Rag (2:07)
A4 Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon (Live) (2:19)
A5 The Bells (3:00)
A6 Bound For Glory (3:15)
A7 Too Many Martyrs (2:46)
A8 There But For Fortune (2:35)
B1 I'm Going Say It Now (2:46)
B2 Santo Domingo (3:48)
B3 Changes 4:30
B4 Is There Anybody Here? (3:17)
B5 Love Me, I'm A Liberal (3:46)
B6 When I'm Gone (3:51)
C1 Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends (3:57)
C2 Pleasures Of The Harbor (Live) (4:59)
C3 Tape From California (Live) (3:39)
C4 Chords Of Fame (3:32)
C5 Crucifixion (Live) (7:40)
D1 The War Is Over (4:25)
D2 Jim Dean Of Indiana (5:02)
D3 Power And The Glory (2:21)
D4 Flower Lady (6:06)
D5 No More Songs (4:33)
[Credits]
Compiled: Michael Ochs
Producer: Andrew Wickham (C4), Arthur Garson (A4, D3) Jac Holzman (tracks: A8, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6) Larry Marks (C1, D1, D4), Mark Abramson (A8, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6) Paul Rothchild (A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, A7) Phil Ochs (A4, C2, C3, C5, D3) Van Dyke Parks (C4, D2, D5)