Donde Voy? / A Chance to Harmonize

Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for August 31, 2024
Hour 1: ¿Donde Voy?

First Set

Phil Ochs, “Bracero,” Phil Ochs Live in Concert, 4:00 Elektra

Tish Hinojosa, “Donde Voy,” Homeland, 2:46 A&M

Solas, “Pastures of Plenty,” The Words That Remain, 3:20 Shanachie

Second Set

Tish Hinojosa, “Joaquin,” Homeland, 3:21 A&M

Richard Shindell, “Che Guevara T-Shirt,” Vuelta, 5:25 Koch

Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, & Jackson Browne, “Deportee,” 75th Birthday, 4:00 Razor & Tie

Third Set

Greg Brown & Anaïs Mitchell, “Why We Build the Wall,” Hadestown, 3:30 Wilderland Records

Timbuk 3, “Border Crossing,” The Best of Mountain Stage, vol. 3, 3:20 Blue Plate Music

David Lindley & Hani Naser, “Tijuana,” Playing Even Better, Official Bootleg #2, 8:00 (self-produced)

Fourth Set

Tom Russell, “Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall?” Immigration Suite, 3:44 Hightone Records

Ry Cooder & Flaco Jiménez, “Viva Sequin / Do Re Mi,” Chicken Skin Music / Live at the Great American, 5:25 Reprise

Closing

Diana Gameros, “Libre y Serena,” Diana Gameros, 4:45 (self-produced)

Folk Music & Beyond Playlist for August 31, 2024
Hour 2: A Chance to Harmonize

Interview with Sheryl Kaskowitz, author of A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression, One Song at a Time

  1. Pete Seeger, “The Farmer Is the Man,” American Industrial Ballads, 1:43 Folkways
  2. Woody Guthrie, “I Ain’t Got No Home in This World,” Hard Travelin’, 2:43 Smithsonian/Folkways
  3. Charles Seeger, “Pioneer Song—Lenin, Who’s That Guy” (Live at Boston University 2018) 2:07
  4. Rosalie Sorrels, “I Am a Union Woman,” The Long Memory, 2:23 Topic/Green Linnet
  5. Pete Seeger, “John Henry,” American Favorite Ballads, vol. 1, 4:28 Smithsonian/Folkways
  6. Pete Seeger, “Talking Union,” Classic Labor Songs, 3:00 Smithsonian/Folkways
  7. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, “Mole in the Ground,” Classic Mountain Songs, 3:19 Smithsonian/Folkways
  8. Margaret Valiant, “Cotton-Eyed Joe” (live) 1:32
  9. (unknown singers), “Goin’ Down That Road Feeling Bad” (live) 1:40
  10. (unknown singer), “The Dickman Song” (live) 1:15
  11. (unknown singers), “Rock-a-Bye Baby” (live) 0:38
  12. Henry Garrett, “Strike at Harriman” (live) 1:15
  13. Mike Seeger, “Roane County / Strike at Harriman,” Tipple, Loom, & Rail, 3:02 Folkways
  14. Woody Guthrie, “Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road,” Buffalo Skinners, 3:02 Smithsonian/Folkways