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
- Nine Hundred Miles
- I Hate the Capitalist System
- Little Maggie
- I'm on My Way
- Ramblin'
- When I Was A Young Girl
- Don't Sing Love Songs
- Girl Of Constant Sorrow
- Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
- It Isn't Nice
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- I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
- Turkey Reveille
- The Danville Girl
- La Lee Too Dum
- Who's Gonna' Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
- Gypsy Davy
- La Le Too Dum
- I Know Where I'm Going
- Single Girl
- Greensleeves
- working class woman
- Stung Right
- Detroit Medley
- Lonesome Jailhouse Blues
- The kent state massacre
- Go 'Way from My Window
- I Just Want To Make Love To You
- Ludlow Massacre
- Goodbye to Cold Winter
- a single girl
- Trouble in Mind
- song of my hands
- Things are Slow
- bitter rain
- I am A Weary and Lonesome Traveler
- song of the coats
- Pack Up Your Sorrows
- You Don't Know Me
- Working People's Blues
- We Shall Not Be Moved
- Victim to the Blues
- Way Behind The Sun
- Join the GI Movement
- This Little Light Of Mine
- When We Make It Through
- Special Delivery Blues
- Draggin' My Heart Around
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
- 'Way Behind the Sun
- Wild women don't have the blues
- I'm On My Way - 45 Single Version
- Take It Slow And Easy
- Ballad Of Richard Campos
- Come By Here
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Mama Don't Allow No Twistin'
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
- Resistance Hymn
- La Le Too Dum Day
- Stranger's Blues
- Ain't Nobody Got The Blues Like Me
- Good Mornin' Blues
- Crazy Blues
- Working-Class Woman
- Come Back,Baby
- Mighty Rumbling Blues
- Insubordination
- i am a weary and a lonesome traveller
- Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me
- It Hurts Me Too
- Livin' With The Blues
- Dink's Blues (Dink's Song)
- The Hammer Song
- Come On In (There Ain't Nobody Here But Me)
- Bring 'Em Home
- Misery Blues
- Mother Earth
- GOODBY DADDY GOODBY
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Jesus Won't You Come By Here
- You've Got to Reap What You Sow
- Prescription For The Blues
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Muddy Water
- Good Old Wagon
- Oh, Papa
- Truck-Driving Woman
- Cake Walking Babies from Home
- Deportees
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- Hard Oh Lord
- If I Could Be With You
- A Hundred Years from Today
- Hurry Up Sundown Let Tomorrow Come
- Study War No More
- Only a Pawn in Their Game
- Just Another Day
- See, See Rider
- Mecca Flat Blues
- Hold On (Keep Your Eyes On The Prize)
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