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Comment by Caroline Pryor on August 27, 2010 at 6:25

Greetings all, Please find links to a 1976 concert of Peggy Seeger and Ewan McColl. Songs of Struggle. A digital recording from the original master tape was found in the AMWU collection at the Noel Butlin Archive of Business and Labour at the Australian National University. The tapes are now in the National Sound and Film Archive. Copies were made available to Peggy Seeger and to Warren Fahey. You can hear the concert on http://warrenfahey.com/songs-of-struggle.htm with a bit of background and comment from Peggy. It is a history of songs of struggle. regards Caroline Pryor

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 27, 2010 at 5:54

A link to the lyrics Ira posted, on Pete Seeger's website: Banks of Marble

Now if you posted your additional verses that would be legit. Okay?

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 27, 2010 at 5:49

I have NO wish to get UnionBook2 cited for any violations of US or any other copyright law; I know for a fact that ASCAP and other copyright agencies read sites like this. If you are going to upload video or music files directly to this group, or post lyrics, please be dead certain that a) they are your own work or b) they are public domain or c) you have explicit written permission from the copyright holder. It's perfectly all right to post links to Youtube videos as I have done, we will just let Youtube worry about the copyright in those cases.

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 27, 2010 at 5:42

Ira, those lyrics are not public domain so I have to take them down. [Copyright 1950 by Stormking Music Inc.] Sorry!

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 26, 2010 at 23:08

Sending a friend request, Nathan.

Meanwhile, do you know http://everythingdulcimer.com/discuss/? Or Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer here on Ning.com ?

Comment by Nathan Moore on August 26, 2010 at 20:19

Yeah, I just started the Mountain Dulcimer awhile back...I'm learning both the noter style and fingerstyle...It's such a beautiful instrument...I love it.

I made a mistake about the "Coal" album...Black Waters is not on it, but it does have Blue Diamond Mines and a host of other great songs.

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 26, 2010 at 20:12

I meant Mountain Dulcimer, not Maryland. Sorry about that. ::grin:: I play MD in Jean's style, noter-and-drone.

Comment by Nathan Moore on August 26, 2010 at 20:02

Ross--I play in Eugene, Oregon actually. There's some great labor singers here...Mark Ross (who played with Utah Phillips for years), Chico Schwall, and Jim Page. It's a great community. I agree with ya about Ritchie's music...Have you heard Kathy Mattea's new album "Coal"? She covers both of the songs that you mentioned..

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on August 26, 2010 at 18:17

Nathan - Of course a lot of Jean's stuff IS labour & social justice music ... from "The L&M Don't Stop Here Anymore" to "Black Water" to the Peace Round.

Do I take it you play MD? And please, call me Ross.

Comment by Nathan Moore on August 26, 2010 at 18:06

Brian: I love David Schnaufer's music...I've been learning from his excellent DVD. Jean Ritchie's a favorite of mine as well. In terms of labor and social justice music, I really like Otis Gibbs. His new album "Joe Hill's Ashes" is excellent. Phillips, of course, is the best of the best. Some other working class songwriters that I've recently been into are Dick Gaughan, Graham Moore, and Hazel Dickens.

My band just played a show with a great radical "punkgrass" band called The Haymarket Squares...A very entertaining band...Definitely check them out.

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