Rory's BBC Radio 2 Folk and Acoustic profile - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2002

SINGERS - SONGWRITERS - FRIENDS - FELLOW TRAVELLERS

Joe Hill: Index of Protest Songs - "I NEVER DIED. . ."
Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
Paul Robeson websites - ROBESON CELEBRATION HOME PAGE
Paul Robeson Black History Month - http://www.kron.com/specials/blackhistory/robeson.html
Pete Seeger - great site, song lyrics and also interesting minutes from the house of Un-American committee trial of Pete.
Phil Ochs topical song writer from the 1960's. Lyrics here. http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/
Victor Jara - Chilean singer murdered, with many other people, by General Pinochet the fascist military dictator with the help of that terrorist group the CIA Pinochet over threw the Elected Socialist Governement of Salvadore Allende. (Committee to Intervene Anywhere! Joke! ) - http://www.msu.edu/~chapmanb/jara/eindex.html
Dick Gaughan. An inspirational site from a strongly committed singer and guitarist with great links and song resources. - http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/main.htm
John Prine- Song Lyrics. Some of the first records I listen to were John Prines early albums and songs. http://www.jpshrine.org/
Ani Di Franco. passionate performer. Ani is like a long lost sister, it always feels that warm way when we meet up, We first met and played together around 1990? at the Mariposa festival in Toronto. To her great due, Ani has been collaborating with and so bringing more attention to the great storyteller-singer wobbly anarchistic hobo folk singer, Utah Phillips. - http://www.anidifranco.net/
Ewan MacColl  
Peggy Seeger
Bert Lloyd Discography of a collector and singer, I always loved his light laughing voice. http://www.sarcon.demon.co.uk/engfolk/21/simple/bert_lloyd.htm
Andy Irvine. links to Songs here. http://www.ceolas.org/artists/Andy_Irvine.html
Jean Ritchie Home Page
Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) This site also links to other blues singers. With Biographies.
The Hottentots - Musical duo from Byron Bay, Australia.

HEROES and SHEROES

JOHN MACLEAN - Two different sites about Scottish schoolteacher and Marxist educator. - http://www.marxists.org/archive/maclean/macl-idx.htm - http://www.workersliberty.org/activity/fractions/scotland/maclean1.html
Che Guevara Page
Joe Hill: Index of Protest Songs - "I NEVER DIED. . ."
Paul Robeson websites - ROBESON CELEBRATION HOME PAGE -
Paul Robeson Black History Month - www.princeton.lib.nj.us/robeson/links.html - www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/PaulRobeson/

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