Top Almanac Singers Albums
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State of Arkansas
[2011]
[2011]
The Original Talking Union and Other Union Songs
[2004]
[2004]
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All I Want Away Rio Babe O'mine Ballad Of October 16 Blow The Man Down Blow Ye Winds Heigh Ho Dear Mr President Get Thee Behind Me Satan Hard Ain't It Hard Haul Away Joe House Of The Rising Sun Songs For Bridges Talking Union The Dodger Song The Golden Vanity The Strange Death Of John Doe The Weaver's Song Union Maid Which Side Are You On
Related Information for Almanac Singers
The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s. Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time. Mainstream national success began after the American Youth Congress meeting in Washington D.C. in February of 1941. Others who sang with the group at various times included Sis Cunningham, (John) Peter Hawes and his brother (Baldwin) Butch Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes (wife of Butch), Cisco Houston, and Arthur Stern.Politics and music remained closely intertwined with the members' political beliefs, which were far-left and occasionally led to controversi... read more
