We’ve got a Labor Day collection of songs…songs celebrating working men and women and these are songs of both honor and protest, taking us back to the Great Depression when work was hard to find. We’ll also be celebrating the core fight for organizing…whether you’re fighting for the day-to-day pressure of producing faster and better in front of a computer or you’re steaming lattes for the hurried throngs, you have a right to organize and much of the music we’ll share today reinforces the concept. While unions are demonized with threats of offshoring…you know it will be done either way. Music today will include Pete Seeger, Mavis Staples, Paul Robeson, Bruce Springsteen and a whole host of others. Tune in on kowsfm.com/listen or download our app.
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| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Bing Crosby | Brother Can You Spare A Dime? | Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. |  |
| 3 | Paul Robeson | Joe Hill | Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Flokways | |
| 4 | Pete Seeger | Which Side Are You On? | The First Days Of Protest In The Twentieth Century | |
| 5 | Natalie Merchant | Which Side Are You On? | Coal Country Music | |
| 6 | The Almanac Singers | Talking Union [Album Version] | The Essential Pete Seeger | |
| 7 | Tennessee Ernie Ford | Sixteen Tons | Vintage Collections | |
| 8 | Pete Seeger | Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues | An Anthology of Folk Music | |
| 9 | Woody Guthrie | Union Maid (Excerpt) | Hard Travelin' (The Asch Recordings Vol. 3) | |
| 10 | Pete Seeger | Union Maid | The First Days Of Protest In The Twentieth Century | |
| 11 | David, Bill, And Billy Ray Johnson | Going Down the Road Feeling Bad | Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways | |
| 12 | Bruce Springsteen | We Shall Overcome | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 | |
| 13 | Bobbie McGee | Bread and Roses | Unknown | |
| 14 | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | Hard Times Come Again No More | Songs Of The Civil War | |
| 15 | Dorsey Dixon | Hard Times In Here | The Best Of The HighTone Years | |
| 16 | Dorsey Dixon | Hard Times In Here | The Best Of The HighTone Years | |
| 17 | Nanci Griffith | Hard Times (Come Again No More) | Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) | |
| 18 | Mavis Staples | We Shall Not Be Moved (Cd) | We'll Never Turn Back | |
| 19 | Justin Townes Earle | Down In The Valley | Coal Country Music | |
| 20 | Bob Dylan | Maggie's Farm | The Essential Bob Dylan [Disc 1] | |
| 21 | Tom T. Hall | I'm a Coal Mining Man | Coal Country Music | |
| 22 | Bruce Springsteen | Pay Me My Money Down | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 | |
| 23 | Bruce Springsteen | Factory | Darkness on the Edge of Town | |
| 24 | Bruce Springsteen | Youngstown | The Ghost of Tom Joad | |
| 25 | Pete Seeger | If I Had A Hammer | The Essential Pete Seeger | |
| 26 | Steve Earle | Steve's Hammer (For Pete) | Washington Square Serenade | |
| 27 | Valentine Pringle | John Henry | The Long Road To Freedom: An Anthology Of Black Music [Disc 4] | |
| 28 | Elvis Presley | Big Boss Man | Artist of the Century Disc 2 | |
| 29 | Blind Boy Fuller | Working Man Blues | Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 3 1937 | |
| 30 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott | 1913 Massacre | Hard Travelin' | |
| 31 | Woody Guthrie | Farmer-Labor Train | Hard Travelin' (The Asch Recordings Vol. 3) | |
| 32 | Randy Newman | Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) | Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1 | |
| 33 | Randy Newman | Every Man a King | Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1 | |