Barbara Dane - Hot Jazz Cool Blues & Hard-hitting Songs (CD)

Details: This 2 CD retrospective reflects over 60 years of Barbara Dane's eclectic musical history in folk, blues and jazz. The 39 tracks include 13 never-before-released recordings, featuring collaborations with Lightin' Hopkins, the Chambers Brothers, Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Art Hodes, and more. The extensive liner notes give insight into Dane's singular trajectory as an outspoken and indomitable artist who, unwilling to make the compromises demanded by the music business, struck out on her own path, singing for peace and social justice. 2 discs-150 minutes, extensive notes and photos in a 40-page booklet.

Tracklist:

1. I Am a Weary and Lonesome Traveler
2. Way Behind the Sun
3. Victim to the Blues
4. Working People's Blues
5. Come By Here
6. It Isn't Nice
7. Deportees (Plane Wreck at los Gatos)
8. I Don't Want Your Millions Mister Dane ; Lightning Hopkins
9. Ballad of Richard Campos
10. Join the Gi Movement
11. Song of the Coat Makers
12. Mill Worker
13. Working-Class Woman
14. Truck-Driving Woman
15. Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me - By Barbara Dane ; Lightning Hopkins
16. Let Me Be Your Rag Doll - By Barbara Dane ; Lightning Hopkins
17. Mother Earth - By Barbara Dane ; Lightning Hopkins
18. The Ones Who've Gone Before Us (When We Make It Through)
19. Trouble in Mind
20. Basin Street Blues
21. Why Don't You Do Right?
22. My Melancholy Baby
23. Mama Yancey's Advice
24. Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jellyroll
25. Please Don't Lose Your Mind (If You Lose Your Money)
26. Walking Blues
27. King Salmon Blues (Abridged)
28. Good Morning Blues
29. Gipper Gate Blues
30. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
31. Study War No More
32. This Little Light of Mine
33. You Don't Know Me/You Don't Know My Mind
34. Salty Dog Blues
35. Only a Pawn in Their Game
36. Solidarity Forever
37. We Shall Not Be Moved
38. Oh Had I a Golden Thread