Carry It On (1986)

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Original Release: 1986
CD Release: September 1992
Label: Flying Fish Records

 Step by Step (Trad.)
Talking Union (Trad. – Almanac Singers/Stormking Music/ASCAP)
Harriet Tubman (W. Robinson/Shawnee Press, Inc)
Bread and Roses (M. Farina – J. Openheim/Farina Music)
I’m Gonna Be an Engineer (Peggy Seeger)
John Henry (Trad.)
Black, Brown and White Blues (B. Broonzy/W. Broonzy – MCA Music)
Hurry Hurry Hurry
Hayseed Like Me (Trad.)
De Colores (Trad.)
Carry It On (G. Turner/Melody Trail, Inc.)
Aragon Mill (S. Kahn/Joe Hill Music)
Union Maid (W. Guthrie/Ludlow Music)
Popular Wobbly (F. Fisher – T. Slim)
Soup Song (M. Sugar)
No Nos Moveran/We Shall Not Be Moved (Trad.)
I Am a Union Woman/Which Side Are You On? (Trad., M. Jackson – F. Reece)
Joe Hill (E. Robinson – A. Hayes/MCA Music)
Somos el Barco (L. Wyatt/L. Wyatt)
He Lies in the American Land (Trad., A. Kovally, Trans., P. Seeger)
Solidarity Forever (L. Chandler – F. Petric – S. Rogers – P. Seeger – M. Taylor – R. Chaplin)

Musicians:

Si Kahn (lead and harmony vocals, acoustic six-string guitar)
Jane Sapp (lead and harmony vocals, piano)
Pete Seeger (lead and harmony vocals, banjo, acoustic twelve-string guitar, soup bowl)
John Miller (acoustic and electric bass)
Arien Roth (acoustic and electric six-string guitar, electric bass on “Union Maids”)
Fred Hellerman (synthesizer)

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.