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Martin Doherty & Leigh Birkett : Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win
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High powered yet beautiful acoustic music with a strong message. This album is a specific tribute to a legend of the australian union movement and one of australia's great humanitarians.
Genre: Folk: Political Folk
Release Date: 2008
Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win
Martin Doherty & Leigh Birkett
Record Label: Martin Doherty & Leigh Birkett
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Bendigo Gold 5:57 Album Only
2. Spoken Word 0:17 Album Only
3. It's a Working Man I Am 5:06 Album Only
4. Spoken Word 0:29 Album Only
5. The Big Pneumatical Drill 2:58 Album Only
6. Shearers On the Wallaby 5:46 Album Only
7. Spoken Word 0:56 Album Only
8. Tribute to John Cummins 4:43 Album Only
9. Spoken Word 0:22 Album Only
10. They Couldn't Take the Union From Your Soul 3:21 Album Only
11. Spoken Word 1:30 Album Only
12. England's Motorway 5:09 Album Only
13. Now Listen Mr Howard 2:51 Album Only
14. Spoken Word 0:34 Album Only
15. The Legend 6:55 Album Only
16. Farewell to the Rhondda 3:33 Album Only
17. The Ballad of Jim Larkin 2:23 Album Only
18. Spoken Word 1:42 Album Only
19. Crooked Jack 2:56 Album Only
20. Spoken Word 0:21 Album Only
21. Joe Hill 3:56 Album Only
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Album Notes

This CD is a tribute to John Cummins, the late President of the CFMEU, Victoria. A great freedom fighter and union man. He will be sorely missed by the thousands he helped through his life. Dare to Struggle Dare to Win is very much a Union album and we're very proud of it. I've been a Union man all my life. In fact, I'm now an honourary Life Member of the CFMEU, so it is no surprise that this CD represents not just a tribute to the life and passion of 'Cummo', but a statement of Union solidarity. A world without strong Unions is a disastrous prospect which we're currently facing and if our children grow up not knowing what rights they should have in the workplace, then the world will be a very sad place indeed.

However, this album is much more than just a fist pumping Union diatribe. You'll find it contains stirring melodies and arrangements both fast and slow, played by some of the finest folk musicians in Australia.

There is also a selection of spoken word pieces taken from a Melbourne radio show called "the Contrete Gang" on the morning of Cummo's funeral. It's not morbid, but contains humerous and inciteful short anecdotes about John and the Construction Union in Ausrtalia.

This is an unusual album and one that should be enjoyed by anyone who likes high quality acoustic music or anyone who believes working men and women to receive the same opportunities as those born to more privileged circumstances.

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