Gunning,Sarah Ogan Girl Of Constant Sorrow CD

It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of this recording, made for US by Archie Green, who is surely the nation's leading authority on the music and folklore of the labor movement in America. Sarah Gunning was the sister of the better-known Aunt Molly Jackson. They were both active in the struggle to organize the mine workers in the Kentucky coal fields, a long, bitter, and often bloody battle. As in the civil rights struggle, songs proved to be an important element in the struggle, helping to educate the workers and encouraging them to maintain their solidarity. Sarah created some of those songs, several examples of which are included here. Powerful!

1. I Am a Girl of Constant Sorrow 2. Loving Nancy 3. Old Jack Frost 4. May I Go with You, Johnny 5. The Hand of God on the Wall 6. Down on the Picket Line 7. I Hate the Company Bosses 8. I'm Going to Organize 9. Christ Was a Wayworn Traveler 10. Why Do You Stand There in the Rain 11. Dreadful Memories 12. Old Southern Town 13. I Have Letters from My Father 14. Captain Devin 15. Gee Whiz, What Have They Done to Me 16. Davy Crockett 17. Battle of Mill Spring 18. Just the Sam Today 19. Sally 20. Oh, Death