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Thread #64862 Message #1064020
Posted By: Joe Offer
01-Dec-03 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: My Warfare Will Soon Be Over
Subject: RE: My Warfare Will Soon Be Over
I guess that Sara Ogan Gunning Folk-Legacy album isn't available on CD. I wonder if it will be.
Here's the blurb describing the album:
GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW - C-26
It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of this recording, made for us by Archie Green, who is surely the nation's leading authority on the music and folklore of the labor movement in America. Sarah Gunning was the sister of the better-known Aunt Molly Jackson. They were both active in the struggle to organize the mine workers in the Kentucky coal fields, a long, bitter, and often bloody battle. As in the civil rights struggle, songs proved to be an important element in the struggle, helping to educate the workers and encouraging them to maintain their solidarity. Sarah created some of those songs, several examples of which are included here. Powerful!
Anybody know of other recordings of My Warfare Will Soon Be Over/Christ Was a Wayworn Traveler?
-Joe Offer-