Companion (1997)

11c

Original Release: 1997
CD Release: September 1997
Label: Appleseed Records
All songs written by Si Kahn

Out of print and out of stock

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Where copies run $10 and up

 Bone to Bone
We Have Come a Long Way
Companera
Friendship
Warriors
Shines in the Light
Burning the Fields
Another Year
Sailing Down the Hudson
When the Shore is Out of Sight
Friend of Mine
Love Like Freedom
Sixteen
Journey Through This Life

Musicians:

Si Kahn (vocals, guitar)
Marcy Marxer (bazouki, tin whistles, harmony vocals, guitar, percussion, mandolin)
Cathy Fink (harmony vocals, guitar, banjo)
Charlie Pilzer (bass)
Ysaye Maria Barnwell (harmony vocal, harmony drones and tones on “Journey Through This Life”)
John McCutcheon (hammered dulcimer on “We Have Come a Long Long Way”)
Bruce Molsky (guitar on “When the Shore is Out of Sight”)
Jim Robeson (electric bass on “Warriors”)

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.