Barbara Dane

About the artist

Barbara Dane (born Barbara Jean Spillman in in Detroit, MI, on 12 May 1927; died 20 October 2024) was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Born into a white middle-class family, as a child Dane sang and played piano in Sunday school and also learned to play guitar. Right out of high school, she began to raise her strong voice regularly at demonstrations for racial equality and economic justice.

Top songs

  1. Nine Hundred Miles
  2. I Hate the Capitalist System
  3. Little Maggie
  4. I'm on My Way
  5. Ramblin'
  6. When I Was A Young Girl
  7. Don't Sing Love Songs
  8. Girl Of Constant Sorrow
  9. Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
  10. It Isn't Nice
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  1. I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
  2. Turkey Reveille
  3. The Danville Girl
  4. La Lee Too Dum
  5. Who's Gonna' Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
  6. Gypsy Davy
  7. La Le Too Dum
  8. I Know Where I'm Going
  9. Single Girl
  10. Greensleeves
  11. working class woman
  12. Stung Right
  13. Detroit Medley
  14. Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
  15. The kent state massacre
  16. Go 'Way from My Window
  17. I Just Want To Make Love To You
  18. Ludlow Massacre
  19. Goodbye to Cold Winter
  20. a single girl
  21. Trouble in Mind
  22. song of my hands
  23. Things are Slow
  24. bitter rain
  25. I am A Weary and Lonesome Traveler
  26. song of the coats
  27. Pack Up Your Sorrows
  28. You Don't Know Me
  29. Working People's Blues
  30. We Shall Not Be Moved
  31. Victim to the Blues
  32. Way Behind The Sun
  33. Join the GI Movement
  34. This Little Light Of Mine
  35. When We Make It Through
  36. Special Delivery Blues
  37. Draggin' My Heart Around
  38. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
  39. 'Way Behind the Sun
  40. Wild women don't have the blues
  41. I'm On My Way - 45 Single Version
  42. Take It Slow And Easy
  43. Ballad Of Richard Campos
  44. Come By Here
  45. Go Tell It on the Mountain
  46. Mama Don't Allow No Twistin'
  47. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
  48. Resistance Hymn
  49. La Le Too Dum Day
  50. Stranger's Blues
  51. Ain't Nobody Got The Blues Like Me
  52. Good Mornin' Blues
  53. Crazy Blues
  54. Working-Class Woman
  55. Come Back,Baby
  56. Mighty Rumbling Blues
  57. Insubordination
  58. i am a weary and a lonesome traveller
  59. Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me
  60. It Hurts Me Too
  61. Livin' With The Blues
  62. Dink's Blues (Dink's Song)
  63. The Hammer Song
  64. Come On In (There Ain't Nobody Here But Me)
  65. Bring 'Em Home
  66. Misery Blues
  67. Mother Earth
  68. GOODBY DADDY GOODBY
  69. How Long, How Long Blues
  70. Jesus Won't You Come By Here
  71. You've Got to Reap What You Sow
  72. Prescription For The Blues
  73. Bye Bye Blackbird
  74. Muddy Water
  75. Good Old Wagon
  76. Oh, Papa
  77. Truck-Driving Woman
  78. Cake Walking Babies from Home
  79. Deportees
  80. Why Don't You Do Right?
  81. Hard Oh Lord
  82. If I Could Be With You
  83. A Hundred Years from Today
  84. Hurry Up Sundown Let Tomorrow Come
  85. Study War No More
  86. Only a Pawn in Their Game
  87. Just Another Day
  88. See, See Rider
  89. Mecca Flat Blues
  90. Hold On (Keep Your Eyes On The Prize)

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