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They Moved My Job to Georgia or Was It Tennessee?
Artist:
Peyton Hopkins
Format: CD
New: Available $19.98
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Formats and Editions
1. Minimum Wage
2. They Moved My Job To Georgia
3. Down Too Long
4. The World’s Unwilling Poor
5. Together We’ve Got Pride
6. Unlucky Kentucky Coal Miner’s Blues
7. We Signed Up Billy Beaumont
8. Stand Up For Your Union While You Can
9. John Mclaughlin
10. Silence Ain’t Always So Golden
More Info:
Singer/songwriter Peyton Hopkins specializes in hard-hitting labor union songs. He knows the struggles of the worker well; his father was an autoworker in Detroit and participated in the 1937 Ford plant strikes. Not one to mince words, Hopkins' lyrics are defiant. In this recording, the first of two that he made for Collector Records in the 1980s, he appears before a live audience of workers, and introduced most songs with a few pertinent remarks. He accompanies himself on guitar, playing left-handed, sometimes with mouth harp accompaniment by Lee Roth. Liner notes provide information on Peyton's background and philosophy.
