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Release Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out
Year 1970
Label Folkways # FW05312
Format LP · Compilation
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 4 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Various Artists, Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out; cite each song by its SongID

Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out

1970 · Compilation · Folkways # FW05312 · USA
4 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War, Civil Rights.
The songs
1.
1970 · Compilation · Folkways # FW05312 · New York City, New York · Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out

Wesley Houston - described in the Smithsonian Folkways liner notes as "a New Yorker" - wrote and performed "Elijah Good", his first recording as a songwriter, on "Broadside Ballads, Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out" (Folkways FW05312, 1970): a narrative folk-protest piece about a man born in 1945 and paralysed by a combat wound in Vietnam. He also sang in the trio The Heart on Rev. Frederick Kirkpatrick's Folkways album "Square Dance With Soul". [Source: Smithsonian Folkways liner notes (institutional archive)]

Theme: Anti-War
Genre: ♪ Folk
2.
1970 · Compilation · Folkways # FW05312 · New York City, New York · Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out

Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933-1987), American folk singer and civil-rights activist born in Haynesville, Louisiana; co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and SCLC song leader. [Source: Wikipedia]

3.
1970 · Compilation · Folkways # FW05312 · New York City, New York · Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out

American civil-rights song leader and organizer, born 1947 in Fort Smith, Arkansas; field singer for Dr. King's SCLC and partner of Rev. F.D. Kirkpatrick. [Source: Wikipedia]

Theme: Anti-War
4.
Credited as Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron · 1970 · Compilation · Folkways # FW05312 · Atlanta, Georgia · Broadside Ballads Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out

Broadside BRS 312 / Folkways FW 5312, "Broadside Vol. 5: Time Is Running Out" (© 1970 Asch Recordings), side B track 5, 3:25; credited "Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron"; booklet: "By Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron, © 1967 by M. Jones & E. Laron"; lyric printed from Broadside #82. The 7" on Relevant RP 1 (VWSP1055) credits Matt Jones. [From the record booklet; Discogs]

Genres: ♪ BluesSoul