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Mr. Encyclopedia
Of the 3000 songs in my music library, over 1000 are by only three different artists. Yes, I'm that obsessive.
1. "I Ain't Got No Home" - Sammy Walker/Phil Ochs
This is on a bootleg concert from late 1975 commonly called Night of the Empty Bottle. A terribly drunk Ochs tries to play along at one of Walker's concerts.
2. "If I Had a Hammer" - Peter, Paul and Mary
From their 1962 debut album. Went to #10 on the Billboard charts.
3. "Annie's Going to Sing Her Song" - Tom Paxton
From an album Live in Concert done for the BBC back in the early '70s.
4. "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" - Pete Seeger
From Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits, as if he really had any after the Weavers. A metaphor for Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
5. "Roll Away Bed" - Ellis Paul
From Sweet Mistakes.
6. "Midnight Shift" - Buddy Holly and the Crickets
7. "I Want to Live" - John Denver
My favorite of his albums.
8. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - Bob Dylan
From Freewheelin'.
9. "Worried Man Blues" - Woody Guthrie
Traditional song.
10. "The Molly Maguires" - The Dubliners
11. "Oh Freedom" - The Freedom Singers
From a Smithsonian Folkways album containing a bunch of Freedom Songs.
12. "Black Wind Blowing" - Billy Bragg & Wilco
From Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2, a collection of their re-workings of unrecorded Woody Guthrie songs (he recorded 70, there's about 3000).
13. "Getaway" - Nova Mob
This is a very odd album by an odd group, formed by Grant Hart, the former drummer for Husker Du.
14. "Boatman" - James Taylor
From his Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Hourglass.
15. "I Ain't Marching Anymore" - Phil Ochs
This is from a 1971 concert he did at Carnegie Hall, commonly called the Gunfight at Carnegie Hall. He dressed up in a Nudie Cohn Elvis suit and sang a blend of his own songs (some of them reworked into rockabilly) and covers of songs from the '50s.
This is a pretty appropriate blend of what I listen to.
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