We’re Still Here (2004)

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Label: Strictly Country Records
All songs written by Si Kahn, except “He Lies in the American Land”: Original Slovak Words and Music by Andrew Kovaly, transcribed by Jacob Evanson. English Lyrics by Pete Seeger (1951).

OUT OF PRINT
 Hard Times
Traveler
The Flume (Down the Road)
Mother Jones’ Farewell To Ireland
We’re Still Here
Silk and Satin
The Gap ($8,825 An Hour)
We Roll the Steel
Cam Ranh Bay
Wigan Pier
The Hunters
A Time For Us All
Rabbit Jim
He Lies in the American Land
When the War Is Done
Momma Was A Union Woman
The Whiskey Ring and the Railroad Trust
La Libertad
Mother Jones’ Farewell (I Was There)

Musicians:

Si Kahn (guitar, lead vocals)
Liz Meyer (harmony vocals)
Joost van Es (fiddle)
Scott Ainslie (National resophonic guitar on “Hard Times” and “Cam Ranh Bay,” second guitar on “When the War Is Done”)

In Honor of Si’s 80th Birthday Today, April 23,

Please Join Us in Launching the Si Kahn Living Legacy

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, John McCutcheon

The goal of the Si Kahn Living Legacy is to build awareness of, support for, and public access to the amazingly large body of Si’s creative work that no one except Si has ever seen, and ultimately to keep it alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.  Si has been recognized internationally as one of the most important English language social justice songwriters, connecting his cultural work and social activism like so many before him, including Pete Seeger (with whom he worked, toured, and recorded) and Woody Guthrie.  

Nora Guthrie and others started the Woody Guthrie Archives long after Woody’s passing. As Si turns the corner to his 80th birthday, it’s a perfect time to think ahead, to gather, catalog, and make available those of his songs, stories, book manuscripts, poems, and other creative works that have never before been seen or heard by anyone except Si. The time to do this is now, while he’s healthy, still actively creating, and available as a friendly resource to the Living Legacy’s growth and development. 

It of course takes funding to build and maintain a major project like this. Your contributions are tax-deductible, as the project is managed by and part of the 501(c)3 non-profit Generations: Music for Justice (EIN 87-1647310).

Let’s do this together, recognizing the importance of Si’s life not just as an organizer and musician, but as a humane, generous, deeply kind person, who has spent his entire life trying to make this tired world a kinder, gentler, more just place for all of us.