Guy Carawan was a U.S. folk musician, ethnomusicologist, and activist. Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Carawan met Pete Seeger as a teenager in the 1940s and became involved in cultural activism around the labor movement through Seeger's People's Songs Network.
In 1959 he became the Music Director at the Tennessee Highlander Folk School, a small school for labor organizers founded in 1932 by a coalition of Southern U.S. labor activists. Carawan was a pivotal figure in the Highlander School's revival during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, when many Civil Rights activists came to the school to study with veteran labor organizers.
Carawan released this album of political songs in 1982 to commemorate the Highlander School's 50th year.
Tracks 5 and 6 are performed by the Moving Hall Singers and the SNCC Freedom Singers respectively.
Solidarity forever! Enjoy Comrades!
Tracklist:
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round/Which Side Are You On? (0:00)
Jericol Scab Song (3:53)
Picket Line Hoedown/Old Molly Hare (6:14)
We Shall Overcome/I'll Be Alright/All Hid (7:40)
You Got to Move (13:27)
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (15:03)
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? (18:26)
What She Aims to Be (21:27)
Twenty Ton Mistress (23:43)
Sandy River Belle (26:28)
Draglines (28:15)
Garbage (30:51)
Take the Children and Run (34:55)
If I Were Free (38:00)
Chinese Folk Tune, Learned in China 1957 (40:41)
Musicians:
Guy Carawan - vox, banjo, guitar, hammered dulcimer
