Sure it might be a cliche, but Charlie Haden at least believes that the people united will never be defeated. Besides, we need more leftist jazz.
Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968, edited by Jan Hoffenaar, Dieter Kruger, and David Zabecki (English translation) is a collection of essays on Soviet and Western.
Talib Kweli on what working people have to do to get by.
Richard Thompson on love and strikes.
Scott Walker.
Run-DMC reminds us of the hard economic times of African-Americans during the Reagan years.
The legendary cowboy singer Glenn Ohrlin with a comedic song about the very unpleasant work of castrating farm animals.
Blind Willie McTell on the perils of agricultural work and nature in the American South.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Ah, doesn't everybody long for the days when George W. Bush assembled a Potemkin coalition to lie the country into an insanely wasteful, destructive, and irrational war.
Dolly Parton reminds us about work and feminism.
This fine Labor Day, I want to run a series of posts remembering the great history of work and the lack thereof in American music. For the first post, here's.
The entire August 2004 archive is now available. We managed 78 posts, with distribution as follows: 34 Farley 20 Lemieux 23 djw 1 Loomis (early guest post) We don't have.