Labor Day 2004

The program for September 4, 2004, was our annual collection of songs for Labor Day.

First hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Stravaig Song of the Fishgutters The Music & Song of Greentrax (Greentrax)
John Doyle North Sea Holes Evening Comes Early (Shanachie)
Brian McNeill The Boys That Broke the Ground / Ortiguera Unstrung Hero (FMS)
New Set
The Bothy Band The Factory Girl Out of the Wind, Into the Sun (Green Linnet)
Karan Casey The Four-Loom Weaver Distant Shore (Shanachie)
Canterach Shipyards Canterach (KRL)
Music Under Announcements
Ceolbeg Working Shifts, Gale Warning Cairn Water, An Unfair Dance (Greentrax)
Dick Gaughan Workers Song Live in Edinburgh (Celtic Music)
Ricco Cannovino, et al. U Leva Leva (Tuna Fishing Chantey) Italian Treasury: Calabria (Rounder)
Ishbel MacAskill Waulking Set Essentially Ishbel (s/p)
Dick Holdstock & Tom Murphey Santy Ana San Francisco Shanties and Sea Songs of California's Gold Rush (s/p)
Brass Monkey Put the Road in Order Going & Staying (Topic)

Second hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Quetzal Worksongs Worksongs (Vanguard)
Lila Downs Tránsito Border / La Linea (Narada)
Ani di Franco & Utah Phillips Why Come? Fellow Workers (Righteous Babe)
New Set
Stairheid Gossip Cotton Mill Girls Stirrin' It Up (Greentrax)
Leftover Salmon Woody Guthrie Acoustic Rainbow v. 18 (PoetMan)
Woody Guthrie Ludlow Massacre Struggle (Smithsonian Folkways)
Andy Irvine A Prince among Men Rain on the Roof (s/p)
New Set
Si Kahn We Roll the Steel We're Still Here (s/p)
Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman Old King Coal Constant Lovers (Dragon)
Jez Lowe Pit Boy Galloways (Musica Pangaea)
David Francey Mill Towns Far End of Summer (Laker Music)
Stan Rogers The Idiot Northwest Passage (Fogerty's Cove Music)
Karan Casey The Jute-Mill Song Distant Shore (Shanachie)
New Set
Martin Simpson Love Never Dies Righteousness & Humidity (Red House)
Martin Simpson The Keel Row (faded) When I Was on Horseback (Shanachie)