Best of Broadside 1962-1988

Various Artists

Smithsonian Folkways 40130

This compilation includes two Bob Dylan tracks and two by Eric Andersen.

Tracks / Performers

The tracks and performers on this compilation are;

• Links on the Chain - Broadside Singers and Phil Ochs
• Blowin' in the Wind - New World Singers
• Paths of Victory - Broadside Singers
• The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Peter LaFarge
• Ain't That News? - Broadside Singers and Tom Paxton
• The Times I've Had - Broadside Singers
• Go Limp - Matt McGinn
• Ding Dong Dollar - Glasgow Song Guild
• Mack the Bomb - Pete Seeger
• The Civil Defense Sign - Mark Spoelstra
• Let Me Die in My Footsteps - Happy Traum
• Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Jim Page
• What Have They Done to the Rain? - Malvina Reynolds
• Ballad of William Worthy - Phil Ochs
• Train for Auschwitz - Tom Paxton
• Do as the Doukhobors Do - Pete Seeger
• Christine - Broadside Singers and Tom Paxton
• As Long as the Grass Shall Grow - Peter LaFarge
• John Brown - Bob Dylan
• Take Me for a Walk (Morning Dew) - Bonnie Dobson
• The Willing Conscript - Pete Seeger
• Kill for Peace - Fugs
• Plains of Nebrasky-O - Eric Andersen and Phil Ochs
• Benny Kid Peace - Gil Turner
• What Did You Learn in School Today? - Tom Paxton
• Changin' Hands - Phil Ochs
• Welcome, Welcome Emigrante - Broadside Singers and Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Shady Acres - Janis Ian
• Lord, Hold Back the Waters - William McLean
• The Ballad of Donald White - Bob Dylan
• Song for Patty - Sammy Walker
• A Very Close Friend of Mine - Richard Black
• Long Time Troubled Road - Eric Andersen
• A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Pete Seeger
• Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
• We'll Never Turn Back - Freedom Singers
• Freedom Riders - Phil Ochs
• Father's Grace - Broadside Singers
• Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janis Ian
• I'm Gonna Get My Baby Out of Jail - Len Chandler
• The Ballard of Martin Luther King - Mike Millius
• Carry It On - Broadside Singers and Len Chandler
• Birmingham Sunday - Richard Farina
• The Migrant's Song - Danny Valdez and Augustin Lira
• El Picket Sign - Treato Campesino
• La Lucha Continuara - Danny Rose-Redwood
• Cantra la Pro - Raimon Padilla
• Mrs. Clara - Sullivan's Letter
• If It Wasn't for the Union - Matt McGuinn
• More Good Men Going Down - Broadside Singers
• Sundown - Sis Cunningham
• My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away) - Sis Cunningham
• Drag Lines - Deborah Silverstein and New Harmony Sisterhood Band
• My Father's Mansions - Pete Seeger
• Pinkville Helicopter - Thom Parrott
• Hell No, I Ain't Going Go - Matt Jones and Elaine Laron
• We Seek No Wider War - Phil Ochs
• Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
• Vietman - Paul Kaplan
• Hole in the Ground - Thom Parrott
• To Be a Killer - Wes Houston
• New York J-D Blues - Pete Seeger
• Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
• Not Enough to Live on But Too Much to Die - Michael Strange
• The Faucets Are Dripping - Malvina Reynolds
• Bizzness Ain't Dead - New World Singers
• Business - Pete Seeger
• Legal-Illegal - Pete Seeger
• Brown Water and Blood - Jeff Ampolsk
• The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy - Thom Parrot
• Lafayette - Lucinda Williams
• The Ballard of the Earl Durand - Charles Brown
• Plastic Jesus - Ernie Marrs and The Marrs Family
• Burn, Baby, Bur - F.D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Collier
• The Cities Are Burning - F.D. Kirkpatrick and Jim Collier
• Nothing But His Blood - F.D. Kirkpatrick
• You're Just a Laughing Fool - F.D. Kirkpatrick
• Time Is Running Out - Wendy Smith
• But If I Ask Them - Sis Cunningham
• Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy - Sammy Walker
• Changes - Phil Ochs
• Bound for Glory - Phil Ochs
• Victor Jara - Arlo Guthrie
• We Will Never Give Up - Kristen Lems
• Inez - Bev Grant / Human Condition
• I'm Gonna Be an Engineer - Peggy Seeger
• Don't Talk to Strangers - Chris Gaylord
• Catcher in the Rye - Sammy Walker
• The Time Will Come - Elaine D. White

Promotional sampler

John Brown was originally released on;

• Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1, Various Artists, 1963

• Broadside Ballads, Vol. 6: Broadside Reunion, Various Artists, 1971

• Selections from the Best of Broadside, Various Artists, 2000

• The Broadside Singers: Broadside, Vol. 3, Various Artists, 1964