ANNE FEENEY: Union Maid

Anne Feeney

Union Maid

© 2003 Anne Feeney (880767000020)

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Utah Phillips calls her "the best labor singer in North America." 23 great songs.

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This is Anne Feeney's "best seller."

23 union and work songs from the woman Utah Phillips calls "the best labor singer in North America." Energizing, inspiring, true songs that should be in the home of every member of the working class... especially union members! This is the CD to have in your player on the way to the rally ... read the rank 'n file reviews below, and write your own after you've had a listen.......

Here's what Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary says:
I adore Anne Feeney not only because she's a wonderful songwriter, which she is, but also because she's a person who has lived her songs.

Here's a review from Pause/Record:

Today's folk music is filled with the influences of labor music. From Joe Hill to Woody to Pete, many of the longest lasting songs are songs of the working class and those fighting for them.

It may be that torch that has been picked up by Anne Feeney, an unabashed union maid and self-proclaimed hellraiser. In one CD you can not only find a true and spirited bow to the classics of the labor movement, but hear a fresh look at the state of the protest song today. You won't read tomorrow's paper the same afterwards.

In the process of identifying heros and villains, traditions of class resistance and the humanizing the heartless history of capital, Anne Feeney becomes not just a folk singer but something of a working class hero herself.
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Review by Genn Chryst, Guardsman Editor, SF City College

...easily one of the best CD's I've heard in a long, long time. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting from a labor songs collection but it certainly wasn't anything this wonderful.

If you love the socially responsible aspect of the 60's folk-revolution music, you will love this CD.

Her songs are sad, funny, angry, and sarcastic, yet at the same time they are incredibly inspiring and motivating for the truth that they speak. Feeney gives voice to our anger but in a way that clarifies it even to us.

Labor singers have always written their songs to specific melodies and styles that were popular at the time. True to tradition Feeney has managed to incorporate an amazingly diverse array of styles including traditional Irish and Mexican ballads, Black spirituals, reggae, boogie, hip-hop, and ska into this CD. What's even more amazing is that it works! Nothing seems out of place. It all flows together so well that I didn't realize until the third listening that there was such an extreme variety of styles going on.

Feeney uses these different styles to form a kind of musical travelogue of the world's condition that takes you from America's heartland to a pub in Ireland, from the Nazi concentration camps of Europe, through Central America, and to a place I'm sure, lies somewhere near the soul of Birmingham, Alabama.

... one of my all time favorite CD's. And with her wonderful and versatile vocals and passion for what she sings I definitely want to hear a lot more of Anne Feeney.

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  • Anne Feeney- Union Maid
    author: Cynhia Anderson - CWA Local 7603

    This CD is what every Union Member should own. THANK YOU!!!

  • Love it!
    author: Eileen Sylvester

    I love the lyrics and the great sounds in this CD. Makes me proud to be a woman! Keep up the great composing, Anne. I'll be back for more! God bless......

  • Tough & Beautiful
    author: Sammy

    Here's a woman who knows how the world (in this country and everyplace it affects) works and is doing her level best to get the message out over the heads of the Bush-slobbering Corporation-licking "media." Her medium is songs that are beautiful, tough, and true.

  • First heard Anne on WMMT in Kentucky
    author: RCB

    If you think that the average Joe and Jane in America are getting the royal shaft, listen to Anne sing about just what is going on in a lucid and coherent style set to great American rock and country music. Great stuff America needs to hear now. These are anthems for working folks.

  • stimulating
    author: Kelley Davis

    I first heard 'Union Maid' because my boyfriend bought it after hearing Anne at the California Labor Federation. I shared it with most of my union brothers and sisters. We all love it.

  • Bougt as gift
    author: Kathy Carder

    As a California Nurses Association RN I've loved, Your Nursing Heart since purchasing the audiotape years ago. I just bought another CD for a friend.

  • Makes you proud to be union
    author: Mike Mcfarland

    This cd makes you proud to be union. I love to listen to he sing about things that are important to people who work for a living. Great music with a socill conscience is hard to find. May she continue to raise a little hell wherever she goes

  • One of the best cds

    Union Maid is one of the best cds I've got. Its great to hear someone sing about subjects that really matter and yet still have a sense of humor. If you love music and have a social concience you will love this cd.

  • Everyone needs this CD
    author: Howard EGerman

    Every one in a union, who wants to be in a union or who should be in a union needs this tape. As someonein safety the sick note and punch it in are wonderful songs I will use and have used in training.

  • the best cd i ever bought......inspiring to listen to as i go to work
    author: sandi buckert

    i saw anne in person in april of 2005 and was so impressed that i bought this cd....i have shared it with my union {carpenters) and listen to it as i go to work for motivation.....i cant wait to walk a picket line to her songs next

  • author: Erik E

    I had the privilage to hear Anne Feeney perform during the demo against the Nato-demo in Sweden and was totaly stunned by her profesionality and feeling. I also had the honour to speak with her and told her that the reason that i had not joined a union before was that we had no IWW-union in sweden and she told me to join SAC and so i did. So dont let anyone fool you into beliving that musicians cant change anything. : )

  • A must for the union organizer and those that support workers rights and fights!
    author: Susan Declerck

    I was so pleased to give this CD as a Christmas gift to my daughter, a newly hired union organizer for casino workers. This is perfect for her long days tirelessly driving endless roads to speak to workers, or perhaps, to inspire with a song or two at the beginning of meetings. A real find!

  • A Voice of grace, power, inspiration to all who hear her sing.
    author: tim oconnor

    All the lyrics ring true and the style is inspirational.

  • I LOVED this CD !
    author: Juli Kring

    I have only recently even heard of Anne Feeney, but after hearing her for the first time, I am amazed that she is not as renown as Joan Biaz or Ani Defranco ! Kudos !

  • The best for inspiration at a WalMart protest~!
    author: Ruth Robertson San Francisco Raging Grannies

    All the songs are great, but my absolute favorites are War on the Workers and Engineer. Gonna take some of the lyrics from the former and turn it into a chant for our next WalMart protest. Raging Grannies rate this Grantastic!

  • Wide varaity, offers depth but also playfulness and animation.
    author: J. Love

    Definately worth it. The cd has many priceless songs. The raw sound in Feeney's voice and music brings with it an old timers feel. The content has depth and is enjoyable as well.

  • Anne's best work yet!
    author: William Milz -- WEAC

    Great collection of updated standards "Which Side Are You On","Praise Boss"; and today's topical issues "Are My Hands Clean?", "Punch it in". I found songs for every one of my friends -- hopefully to push them into activism. Thanks Anne!

  • Great songs for the labor activists and those who are organizing!
    author: Andrew Linko, UAW, Local 387
  • Fabulous Labor Song CD. Love to play it at work.
    author: Judith Lynn

    This is a great CD if you are a labor advocate and you want to have some inspiration labor songs to play at work, at a union meeting, or perhaps a rally or demonstration. Anney Feeney is fantastic!

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