I Have Seen Freedom (1991)

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Original Release: 1991
CD Release: September 1992
Label: Flying Fish Records
All songs written by Si Kahn

OUT OF PRINT

used, and often, new copies
can be found online 

 I Have Seen Freedom
Nobody’s Body But Mine
Engagement Song
Old Jack Davey
Going, Going, Gone
John Brown
Dreamers
Black, Red, White and Blue
They All Sang “Bread and Roses”
Woman to Woman
Love is the Quilt
El Norte
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
Queen of the River
Walking Down the Road
Season of Peace

Musicians:

Si Kahn (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Cathy Fink (harmony vocals on “Woman to Woman”)

Chorus:
Rajesh Bhat, Laurel Blaydes, Janet Braun, Pat Callair, Ruth Harvey Charity, Mary Cliff, Karen Collins, Tim Coulter, Freyda Epstein, Fred Feinstein, Ken Giles, Martie Harris, Sam Herrman, Peter Jones, Steve Jones, Carol Elizabeth Jones, Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn, Simon Kahn, Shiela Kahn, Roslyn Kaiser, Pete Kuykendall, Kitsy Kuykendall, Jean Mackey, Kamau Marcharla, Marcy Marxer, Tom Moran, Luci Murphy, Vivek Pandit, José Peña, Ron Pollack, Sarah Pollack, Mario A. Posas, Pattie Postel, John Robinson, Lois Roisman, Steven J. Schmidt, Saul Schniderman, Kathy Sreedhar, Joe Uehlein, Diane Walder, Mike Zook

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.