{"id":112,"date":"2016-02-01T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2024-02-18T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T16:59:36","slug":"talking-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/talking-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Union (The Almanac Singers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talking Union (Almanac Singers)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7d-X1QDEM74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/talking-union.jpg?resize=260%2C217&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"217\" \/>&#8220;Talking Union&#8221; was the title song of the Almanac Singers&#8217; most popular album (back in the days when &#8220;album&#8221; meant literally that: a bound album of 78 records). As I mentioned in the last couple of posts, my first records included a bunch of left-wing 78 albums, including <em>Talking Union<\/em>, though that one was missing its cover and I only learned what it looked like about forty\u00a0 years later.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Almanac-Singers.jpg?resize=300%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Almanac Singers\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Almanac-Singers.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Almanac-Singers.jpg?w=539&amp;ssl=1 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Almanac Singers: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Bess Lomax Hawes, Pete Seeger, Butch Hawes, Sis Cunningham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was the first &#8220;talking blues&#8221; I ever heard, though thanks to Woody and then to Bob Dylan, there were a lot around in the 1960s. They were all distant descendants of a blackface minstrel comedy number recorded in the 1920s by a fellow named Chris Bouchillon. Woody did that version, then spun it off into songs about pretty much anything he wanted to talk about, and Pete picked up the pattern and wrote this one with Millard Lampell.<\/p>\n<p>I was eight or nine years old when I first learned this, and a lot of it was obscure to me &#8212; What&#8217;s a &#8220;straw boss&#8221;? 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