Songs of Civil Rights & Protest (2-CD Set)

This 50-track 2-CD set brings together a selection of recordings that, one way or another, relate to the idea of songs as a medium of protest and social and political commentary, with the later incarnations representing the early stirrings of the classic folk protest movement which crystallized in the early '60s in the hands of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others - one or two of their early recordings are included here. Many of the noted voices of protest are featured here - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, Josh White - along with folk artists who embraced the cause like Odetta, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte, and many more, plus some of the more obscure but no less important recordings that set the tone and led the way for later artists. It's fascinating and we hope inspiring collection, which tells many a story.