Si Kahn
Companion
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"Kahn's songs are political, but always so human, simple stories of honest, hard-scratch lives told with a wonderfully honest poetry" -- Performing Songwriter Magazine
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- ANGEL BAND: With Roots & Wings
- DAVID BROMBERG QUARTET: Live New York City 1982
- TOM PAXTON: Comedians & Angels
- PEGGY SEEGER: Bring Me Home
- THE KENNEDYS: Better Dreams
- DAVID BROMBERG: Try Me One More Time
- ERIC ANDERSEN: Blue Rain
- PEGGY SEEGER: Three Score and Ten
- VARIOUS ARTISTS: Give US Your Poor
- VARIOUS ARTISTS: Sowing the Seeds - The 10th Anniversary
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: Experience...101
- CHRISTINE LAVIN & FRIENDS: One Meat Ball
- LIZZIE WEST & THE WHITE BUFFALO: I Pledge Allegiance to Myself
- JOHN STEWART: The Day the River Sang
- THE KENNEDYS: Songs of the Open Road
- KIM AND REGGIE HARRIS: Get On Board! Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Vol. 2
- CHRISTINE LAVIN: folkZinger
- KIM AND REGGIE HARRIS & RABBI JONATHAN KLIGLER: Let My People Go!
- KATE MCDONNELL: Where the Mangoes Are
- AL STEWART: A Beach Full of Shells
- ERIC ANDERSEN: Waves
- JOEL RAFAEL BAND: Woodyboye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (and Tales Worth Telling) Volume II
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Is Si Kahn a professional songwriter? He is not sure, wrestles with the idea, and even seems to resist it. This despite a 28-year recording career spanning eleven albums on four labels, including an acclaimed 1995 retrospective, "In My Heart," celebrating his music.
One thing he does know is that he is a professional labor and community organizer, a life-long occupation and mission fueled by his concern and respect for mill workers, coal miners and other down-trodden communities in the American South. With his song writing inspired by the very communities with whom he works, he has become one of the preeminent figures in contemporary topical song, ranked with writers like Malvina Reynolds, Joe Hill, Aunt Molly Jackson, Utah Phillips and Woody Guthrie in the pantheon of this politically charged musical genre. Si Kahn compositions have been covered by well over 100 performers and include such folk and bluegrass standards as
"Aragon Mill," "Gone, Gonna Rise Again," and "Wild Rose of the Mountain".
This soul stirring new collection was his first in three years and is comprised of 14 all-new songs...each one a tribute to an inspirational comrade who has walked with him awhile on his journey of life. Si is joined on most tracks by the CD's producers, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, a well-known recording and performing duo in their own right, as well as by guest John McCutcheon on hammer dulcimer on "We Have Come a Long Way."