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Joe Hill on the Writing of Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent:

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over; I maintain that if a person can put a few cold, common sense facts into a song, and dress them up in a cloak of humor to take the dryness off of them, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read a pamphlet or an editorial on economic science.

This is the last of the WE NEVER FORGET series honoring the memory of our Fellow Worker and Rebel Songwriter, Joe Hill. Celebrations of the life and songs of Joe Hill have been going on across the nation. Joe Hill's songs are still being sung one hundred years after the State of Utah attempted to silence him forever. New recordings have been made by many talented singers, so that now, even most of FW Joe Hill's lesser known songs are featured in one or more youtube videos.

Joe Hill Centennial Celebration: Joe Hill's Great-Great Niece, Lovisa Samuelsson
She is playing on the guitar of Utah Phillips which contains some of Joe Hill's ashes.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFrZvjkh2pY width:560 height:315]

More from Centennial Celebration:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+centenial+celebration

Tom Morello & Friends sing "This Land Is Your Land" at Joe Hill Centenary Concert
--Los Angeles, Nov 17, 2015

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytMPFCrGuSs width:560 height:315]

More performances from that concert:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+centenary+concert+

The Joe Hill Roadshow, kick-off edition, Chicago's Hideout on May 1, 1915

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jnE5G_Zsw width:560 height:315]

For more editions & performances of the Joe Hill Road show:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+roadshow

A Few Great Singers of Joe Hill Songs

Utah Phillips
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ236CwhlPw width:420 height:315]

The Late Great Utah Phillips (1935-2008):
http://hhshelter.org/about/u-utah-phillips/

More Joe Hill songs from Utah Phillips:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Utah+Phillips+joe+hill

Mark Ross
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aejTPnAoyk width:420 height:315]

Mats Paulson
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKbXqmXKWWg width:560 height:315]

Mats Paulson - Songs and Letters of Joe Hill
http://www.discogs.com/Mats-Paulson-Songs-And-Letters-Of-Joe-Hill/releas...

More Joe Hill songs from Mats Paulson:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mats+Paulson+joe+hill

Bucky Halker
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPeLPOvIkY width:560 height:315]

Bucky Halker sings one of Joe Hill's Love Songs
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6yLhb0Ju38 width:560 height:315]

Anywhere But Utah-The Songs of Joe Hill by Bucky Halker
http://www.buckyhalker.com/discography/anywhere-but-utah-the-songs-of-jo...

More Joe Hill songs from Bucky Halker:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+bucky+halker

Lucas Stark
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiggnMM47Q0 width:420 height:315]

Lucas Stark sjunger Joe Hill
http://www.lucasstark.se/album.html

More Joe Hill songs from Lucas Stark:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+lucas+stark

Performances put together by the Salt Lake Tribune:
(The fine work done by the Tribune for the Joe Hill Centenary almost redeems them for the part they played in the frame-up and murder of FW Joe Hill 100 years ago. Almost, but not quite. They should make a formal apology.)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pItMikTVdDs width:560 height:315]

"Joe Hill's Music, The defiant power of song" by Jeremy Harmon, The Salt Lake Tribune
http://local.sltrib.com/charts/joehill/music.html

More on Joe Hill from Salt Lake Tribune:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+salt+lake+tribune

Unknown!
This is my absolute favorite rendition of this song, first song sung at Joe Hill's funeral. If anyone knows who the performer is, please let me know!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTnxk-dCGrs width:420 height:315]

Cathy Richardson, this is my new favorite performance of the Rebel Girl
Of the songs that he wrote, The Rebel Girl was Joe Hill's favorite.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Oc-CXJu0A width:560 height:315]

The Rebel Girl by Joe Hill
http://joehill2015.org/joe-hill/joe-hill-songs/the-rebel-girl/

More performances of The Rebel Girl by various singers:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+hill+rebel+girl

John McCutcheon
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4cbWjjZMDY width:560 height:315]

A review of "Joe Hill's Last Will" a one-man play, performed by John McCutcheon
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/962829-joe-hills-last-will-john-salt-lake...

Joe Hill's Last Will, to purchase recordings of the songs:
https://www.folkmusic.com/store/recordings/joe-hills-last-will

More on Joe Hill from John McCutcheon:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+mccutcheon+joe+hill

WE NEVER FORGET: Fellow Worker & Rebel Songwriter Joe Hill, True Blue Rebel

WE NEVER FORGET: Fellow Worker Joe Hill, True Blue Rebel
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-fellow-worker-joe-hil...
WE NEVER FORGET: Joe Hill-Songs from the Little Red Songbook, Part One
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-joe-hill-songs-little...
WE NEVER FORGET: Joe Hill-Songs from the Little Red Songbook, Part Two
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-joe-hill-songs-little...
WE NEVER FORGET: Joe Hill-Songs from the Little Red Songbook, Part Three
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-joe-hill-songs-little...
WE NEVER FORGET/ Joe Hill-Songs from the Little Red Songbook, Part Four
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-joe-hill-songs-little...
WE NEVER FORGET: The Love Songs of Joe Hill
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-love-songs-joe-hill

Books on Joe Hill:

The Case of Joe Hill
-by Philip Sheldon Foner
International Publishers Co, 1966
https://books.google.com/books?id=4CxM_t80dqoC

The Letters of Joe Hill: Centenary Edition
-ed by Philip foner & Alexis Buss
Haymarket Books, Nov 9, 2015
https://books.google.com/books?id=YXsOCwAAQBAJ

Joe Hill
-by Gibbs M. Smith
Gibbs Smith, Sep 1, 2009
https://books.google.com/books?id=wFwsHQVuHVUC

The Man Who Never Died:
The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
-by William M. Adler
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Aug 30, 2011
https://books.google.com/books?id=nCwHDiXYMRMC

The Big Red Songbook
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont
Charles H. Kerr, 2007
https://books.google.com/books?id=aQHaAAAAMAAJ

Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of
A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture
by Franklin Rosemont
PM Press, Dec 15, 2015
https://books.google.com/books?id=WIjiCgAAQBAJ

Rebel Voices
-ed by Joyce L. Kornbluh
PM Press, Sep 1, 2011
Page 127-Joe Hill: Wobbly Bard
https://books.google.com/books?id=n2ATBwAAQBAJ

The Man who Never Died
(A play by Stavis with intro by Pete Seeger.)
NJ & London, 1951 & 1972
https://books.google.com/books?id=Esj9SKStLTEC

The Songs of Joe Hill
-ed by Barrie Stavis & Frank Harmon
Oak Publications, 1955
https://books.google.com/books?id=HFjaAAAAMAAJ

The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)
by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
Page 191-Joe Hill, Martyred Troubador of Labor
https://books.google.com/books?id=TK2y0I-E9EkC

Wobbly: The Rough and Tumble Story of an American Radical
by Ralph Chaplin
Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013 (reprint of 1948 edition)
Page 184: Joe Hill Faces the Firing Squad
https://books.google.com/books?id=o8gmnwEACAAJ

Centenary Web Sites:

JoeHil2015.org
http://joehill2015.org/

The Legacy of Joe Hill
http://local.sltrib.com/charts/joehill/landingpage.html

Joe Hill Centenary
http://joehill100.com/

Joe Hill Organizing Committee, Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/JoeHillOC/

Web Sites for Songs of Joe Hill:

Political Folk Music Dot Org
http://politicalfolkmusic.org/wordpress/

Joe Hill's Songs at Joe Hill 2015 dot org
http://joehill2015.org/joe-hill/joe-hill-songs/

Joe Hill's Music, The Defiant Power of Song
http://local.sltrib.com/charts/joehill/music.html

The Songs of Joe Hill
http://www.folkarchive.de/hill.html

IMAGES
Joe Hill, Self-Portrait at Sailors' Rest Mission in San Pedro, April 1911
http://joehill2015.org/joe-hill/joe-hill-songs/there-is-power-in-a-union/
Joe Hill, cartoon drawing, "And stay off! See!" Sept 1911
https://books.google.com/books?id=WIjiCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT4&dq=joe+hill,+the+i...

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The Ballad of Joe Hill - Phil Ochs

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUR2PDTptO0 width:560 height:315]

Joe Hill's Ashes - Otis Gibbs

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkCwYUl_Gh8 width:420 height:315]

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night - Paul Robeson

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes width:420 height:315]

And by Joan Baez

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7M9psH0rM width:420 height:315]

And by Bruce Springsteen & Friends

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2UF8yw89yE width:560 height:315]

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I want my last word in this series to be for the Morrison family. My heart goes out to this family for their terrible loss, a father and husband, a brother and a young son. While I strongly disagree that Joe Hill was guilty of these murders, yet we can all agree that this was a heartbreaking loss for any family to endure, and especially for, the child, Merlin Morrison who was there when his father, John G. Morrison, and brother, Arling Morrison were gunned down in cold blood.

There has recently been a meeting between the members of the Morrison family and members of Joe Hill's family, described by Jeremy Harmon for The Salt Lake Tribune in "The Morrisons and Hägglunds Meet, A Family Finds Peace." This extraordinary article can be found here:
http://local.sltrib.com/charts/joehill/morrisonsheal.html

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