Si Kahn and George Mann – Labor Day

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A Tribute to Hardworking People Everywhere

Si Kahn & George Mann
Strictly Country Records (2024)

Labor Day is indeed, as in its subtitle, “A Tribute to Hardworking People Everywhere.” But as Si Kahn turns 80, it is also a tribute to Si’s lifetime work as a passionate fighter for justice, and as an artist whose songs will continue to be sung so long as working people organize and work to build unions and better conditions for all workers.

Peggy Seeger, John McCutcheon, Kathy Mattea, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Billy Bragg, Michael Johnathon, Odetta, Laurie Lewis, Joe Jencks, Magpie, and Tom Chapin with the Chapin Sisters perform not only some of the great numbers from New Wood (Aragon Mill, Gone Gonna Rise Again, Lawrence Jones, Truck
Driving Woman), but songs from Si’s vast catalog that have never before been released, not even by Si himself. Si and George contribute nine songs to the album, seven previously unreleased.