Songs of Protest

Songs of Protest
Songs of Protest

This week’s show on KWTF runs down a century’s worth of protest music. We’ve got some of the familiars, but we’ve also got some of the not-so-familiars.  Out playlists will focus on a couple of the major issues of half century ago that we find ourselves embroiled in today. We’ll hear civil rights anthems and performances from some of the more emphatic musical voices of the sixties that were railing against a war. You’ll also hear topics of union organizing and social justice including the sounds of Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Pete Seeger, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Marvin Gaye, and many others.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Pete Seeger Waist Deep In The Big Muddy The Essential Pete Seeger Amazon
3Joseph Crawford and unidentified vocalist There's A Meeting Here Tonight 2- The Long Road To Freedom : An Anthology Of Black Music Amazon
4Sncc Freedom Singers We Shall Overcome Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
5Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Ken Burns Jazz [Disc 2] Amazon
6Josh White Strange Fruit Josh White – The Remaining Titles (1941-1947) Amazon
7Mavis Staples We Shall Not Be Moved (Cd) We'll Never Turn Back Amazon
8Hollis Watkins Oh Freedom Voices Of the Civil Rights Movement Amazon
9Aaron Neville Oh Freedom I Know I've Been Changed Amazon
10SNCC Freedom Singers; Reagon, Cordell Which Side Are You On? Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement, [Disc 2] (Ensembles) Amazon
11Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore Farewells & Fantasies [Disc 1] Amazon
12The Almanac Singers Which Side Are You On Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2] Amazon
13Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions People Get Ready Akeelah And The Bee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Amazon
14Jean Ritchie Black Waters Troubadours: Folk And The Roots Of American Music 4: 11 The South Amazon
15Bob Dylan Blowin' In The Wind Folk, Gospel & Blues Will The Circle Be Unbroken Disk 2 Amazon
16Bruce Springsteen Eyes on the Prize We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1 Amazon
17Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction Eve Of Destruction Amazon
18Tom Paxton Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Amazon
19Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth Retrospective – The Best of Buffalo Springfield Amazon
20Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son 36 All – Time Greatest Hits 3 CD Set (Disk 3) Amazon
21Marvin Gaye Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) The Promised Land – Original Soundtrack [Disc 2] Amazon
22Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 Amazon
23Nina Simone I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Silk and Soul (Expanded Edition) Amazon
24Ethel Waters What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Ethel Waters 1929 -1939 (feat. Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman) Amazon
25Peter, Paul & Mary Where Have All The Flowers Gon Peter, Paul & Mary Amazon
26Odetta Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 7 Classic Albums Plus Bonus Radio Tracks Amazon
27Paul Robeson No More Auction Block Classic Folk Music From Smithsonian Folkways Amazon
28Southern Sons Lift Every Voice And Sing (1942) 1940's Vocal Groups: Southern Sons (1941-44) & Richmond's Harmonizing Four (1943) Amazon
29Bruce Cockburn If I Had A Rocket Launcher Waiting For A Miracle: Singles 1970-1987 Amazon
30Pete Seeger & The Almanac Singers Union Maid American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 4] Amazon
31Bob Dylan Masters of War Biograph Disc 1 Amazon
32Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Ohio So Far Amazon
33Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 Amazon