LUDLOW MASSACRE, THE

Created on 11/01/2024
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Artist: Woody Guthrie
Author: Woody Guthrie
Label: Asch/Folkways
Year: 1945

For Moses Asch on 78 rpm, reissued on The Asch Recordings Vol. 3 in '98. About the victims (over 20 casualties) of a long strike among miners in Ludlow, Colorado in 1913-14, most of them immigrants treated as serfs for a wage of $1.60 a day.

Covers:

1955:

Rambling Jack Elliott [on Topic lp Woody Guthrie's Blues]

1972:

Christy Moore [on Prosperous, along with Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn and Dónal Lunny; the foursome to continue as Planxty]

1973:

Barbara Dane

1988:

Dick Gaughan

2008:

Arlo Guthrie & The Dillards

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