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Joe Glazer - Welcome to America: Songs of American Immigrants [CD]

Joe Glazer - Welcome to America: Songs of American Immigrants [CD]

Release Date: /// Collector Records

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Social historian and folksinger Joe Glazer here presents 15 songs reflecting the dreams, aspirations, and struggles of some of the immigrant groups that have come to America-Irish, Scandinavian, Jewish, Central European, and Mexican. Originally recorded and released on Glazer's label, Collector Records, the album includes songs written by Woody Guthrie and Oscar Brand as well as Glazer himself. This recording is one of 20 albums by Joe Glazer in the Smithsonian Folkways collection. The liner notes are from the original Collector Records cassette and contain brief information about each song.

Tracklist:

  1. America, America
  2. No Irish Need Apply
  3. Pat Works On The Railway
  4. Kilkelly
  5. When I First Came To This Land
  6. Oleanna
  7. Swede From North Dakota
  8. Song Of The Golden Land
  9. Mayn Yingele
  10. The Raftsmen
  11. I Lie In The American Land
  12. Farm Worker's Song
  13. Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
  14. Welcome To America
  15. We Shall Overcome

UPC: 093070195226
Label: COLLECTOR RECORDS
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

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