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Don't Want Your Millions

by Bucky Halker

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I Don't Want Your Millions 04:31
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2.
Rebel Girl 04:10
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3.
Hard Travelin' 03:13
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Dying Mine Brakeman 04:33
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Pennsylvania Miner 05:53
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I Ain't Got No Home 03:38
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Bourgeois Blues 03:59
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The Coal Machine/What Will A Coal Miner Do 03:11
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Do Re Mi 03:50
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Which Side Are You On? 04:34
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Workingmen Unite! 03:20
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New Made Graves of Centralia 03:43
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13.
Death Of Mother Jones 05:09
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Dump The Bosses 04:06
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about

Bucky Halker and the Complete Unknowns doing arrangements of classic and unknown American working-class protest songs, 1865-1950.

From Bucky:
"I chopped and channeled these songs and took ‘em down all kinds of roads—hard country, traditional folk, straight rock and roll, West Coast post-war R&B, and a little bit of anything else that I thought made ’em sound good and interesting to perform. Frankly, I’m sure that some folk nazis don’t like this recording. Who cares? There’s something important happening here—-great songs, solid arrangements, heavy doses of the right attitude, engaged and fiery performances, and edifying liner notes. I’m very proud of this recording.

I got great support. You can’t do any better than having Studs Terkel read a couple poems. Robbie Fulks did background vocals on the title track. There’s also Don Stiernberg on mandolin, T.C. Furlong and Paul Carastia on pedal steel, Amy Matheny doing background vocals, Steve Yates on keyboards, Gordon Patriarca and Marc Edelstein on bass, and Drew Enselman on percussion. Brothers, sisters, fellow workers: Feed your head and shake your booty!"

NOTE: CD and Booklet available for purchase at Brambus Records in Switzerland.
Visit: www.brambus.com

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released May 1, 2000

Bucky Halker: Lead vocals and acoustic and electric guitars
Drew Enselman: Drums
Don Stiernberg: Mandolin
Gordon Patriarca: Bass
Mark Edelstein: Upright Bass
Brian Dunn: Electric guitars
Amy Matheny: Background vocals
Robbie Fulks: Background vocals
Studs Terkel: Spoken word
Steve Yates: Keyboards
Trish Calusen: Background vocal
TC Furlong: Pedal steel guitar
Paul Carestia: Pedal steel guitar

Recorded Steve Yates Studio, Morton Grove, IL (1999)
Producer: Bucky Halker
Engineer: Steve Yates
Design: Matt Minde
Cover Photo: Ken Cain

Released in Europe on Brambus Records/Switzerland, 1999.
For purchase of this and other Bucky Halker CDs in Europe,
please visit: www.brambus.com

This project was partially funded through a grant from the Illinois Arts Counil Agency.

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Bucky Halker Chicago, Illinois

Songwriter/performer/historian - Albums: Wisconsin 2-13-63, #1 & 2; Anywhere But Utah: Songs of Joe Hill; & The Ghost of Woody Guthrie. Appears on 1999 Grammy nominated album-Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together. Has toured Europe since 1990. Wrote "For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest 1865-1895." Produced 5 volume CD set Folksongs of Illinois. ... more

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