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Thread #39   Message #787
Posted By: LaMarca
14-Dec-96 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mill songs
Subject: RE: Lyric request: Mill songs
A few other goodies I haven't seen mentioned here are Si Kahn's "Spinnin' Mills of Home" about a Southern textile worker who has to go work in the steel mills in Gary, Ind. every time the spinning mills close down. Don't know which Si Kahn album it's on, but Art Thieme does a nice version on his Folk Legacy album "On the Wilderness Road". Si Kahn is very active in union organizing, and has written a whole slew of excellent songs about working in the textile mills. Another good song is "Turning Steel" by an English song- writer; it's on Holdstock and MacLeod's first tape; it's about working in a metal fabricating mill all the days of your life.