Songs of complaint & protest
By: edited by Richard K. Spottswood
Contributors: Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory; Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
Series: Folk music in America -- v. 7
Publisher: Library of Congress, Music Division, Recording Laboratory
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Folk music; Protest songs
Notes: On label: LCM-2085.

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Song"; includes recordings from field and commercial sources.

Program notes, including works of the songs and bibliographical and discographical references (10 p. ill.) inserted in container.

Various performers.

Recorded 1929-65.
Table of contents: title: You can't live with 'em (and you can't live without 'em)  -- (Mattie, Marthie and Minnie); title: Don't do that to me  -- (Wilmoth Houdini); title: Granny get your hair cut  -- (Dutch Coleman); title: Hello world doggone  -- (John McGhee); title: Hard rocks in my bed  -- (Bumble Bee Slim); title: All I've got's gone  -- (Ernest V. Stoneman); title: My next door neighbor  -- (Jerry McCain and his Upstarts); title: Wujjko politykan  -- (Ewgen Źukowsky); title: Poor man, rich man (Cotton mill colic no. 2)  -- (David McCarn); title: I'm gonna take it easy  -- (Gabriel Brown); title: Kill that nigger dead  -- (James (Butch) Cage and Willie Thomas); title: Mississippi road  -- (J.B. Lenoir); title: Over the hills to the poorhouse  -- (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs); title: Key to the bushes blues  -- (Bessie Tucker); title: Collector man blues  -- (Walter Roland); title: Workers' appeal -- (The Tiger).