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:
Rambling Jack Elliott [on Topic lp Woody Guthrie's Blues]
Christy Moore [on Prosperous, along with Andy Irvine, Liam O'Flynn and Dónal Lunny; the foursome to continue as Planxty]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)