Showing posts with label joe hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joe hill. Show all posts

Monday, September 05, 2011

"Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill": Joan Baez At Woodstock (with video)

Huffington Post with video (01:47):
...a clip of Joan Baez singing a song for Joe Hill at Woodstock, 40 years ago...

Hill was a labor activist and member of the Wobblies executed in 1915.
Howie P.S.: "Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill" (Clancy Sigal-GuardianUK):
Anyone who is a fan of Billy Bragg, as I am, or Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie or the sixties protest singer Phil Ochs knows that radical America's greatest songwriter-educator Joe Hill is still alive in the young-in-heart on this besieged Labor Day. MORE...

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Seattle music in progressive American music history (video)


lee57, video (02:59).

Howie P.S.: Many are familiar with "Black and White" the rock "classic" by Three Dog Night from 1972. Less known facts about the song:
1. The words are by Dave Arkin, father of actor Alan Arkin.
2. The music is by (West) Seattle native son Earl Robinson, who also wrote the music to the American labor and organizing anthem "Joe Hill." Joan Baez sang "Joe Hill" @ Woodstock '69, video (05:11).