Folksinger Pete Seeger learned Oleanna from Blegen's book and in 1955 wrote a six-verse translation that was later published in Sing Out!

Folksinger and blues musician Leadbelly references Johnson in a song about the Titanic: " Jack Johnson wanna get on board, Captain said I ain't hauling no coal.

Folksinger Arlo Guthrie lampooned the paradox of seeking a deferment by acting crazy in his song " Alice's Restaurant ": " I said, ' I wanna kill!

Cave has recorded a number of country covers including several on his 1986 album Kicking Against the Pricks, which has such American country classics as " By the Time I Get to Phoenix ", " Long Black Veil " and " The Singer " ( aka " The Folksinger ").

Folksinger Bob Dylan famously attended the University and was a part of its thriving " West Bank " music scene, but did not graduate.

Folksinger Bernie Krause, later a pioneer in bringing the Moog synthesizer to popular music, was the last performer to occupy " the Seeger chair.

Folksinger Phil Ochs attended Staunton Military Academy between 1956 and 1958, where he played clarinet in the marching band.

Axton first appeared on television in a David L. Wolper ABC production of The Story of a Folksinger ( 1963 ).

: This article is about Folksinger, the 1985 album by the artist known as Phranc.

One notable album is " Way Out West " by Scottish Folksinger Alex Campbell, in 1963.

Folksinger Fred Wedlock was Billy's grandson.

Woody Guthrie wrote the song Farmer-Labor Train

Guthrie also composed another song —" Farmer-Labor Train "— with the same melody.

Although Thomas himself favored work to establish a broad Farmer-Labor Party upon the model of the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, he nonetheless remained supportive of the Militants and their vision of an " all-inclusive party ," which welcomed members of dissident communist organizations ( including Lovestoneites and Trotskyists ) and worked together with the Communist Party USA in joint Popular Front activities.

* Carl Sandburg, " The Farmer-Labor Conference ," Survey, vol.

At various times the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party for a few years had considerable local strength, and then faded away — although in Minnesota, the Farmer – Labor Party merged into the state's Democratic Party, which is now officially known as the Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party.

Significant representation from the Progressives of Wisconsin and Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota is also seen, as these two liberal populist groups gained a foothold.

The small, populist Farmer-Labor Party also held two seats following the election.

Humphrey was a Willkie Republican in 1940, but during the postwar mop-up, when old American radicals were kicked out of a newly war-enamored Left, Humphrey busily extirpated Bryanism from the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party so that the populist FL might merge with the Trumanite hawks of the Democratic Party.

In 1944, Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ( DFL ).

There have been 20th Century governors elected as independents, and from such parties as Progressive, Reform, Farmer-Labor, Populist, and Prohibition.

The Union Party attracted modest support from populists on both sides of the political spectrum who were unhappy with Roosevelt and from the remnants of earlier third parties such as the Farmer-Labor Party.

Throughout the early 1920s, Browder and Foster worked together closely in the TUEL, trying to win over the support of the Chicago Federation of Labor in the establishment of a new mass Farmer-Labor Party that would be able to challenge the electoral hegemony of the Republican and Democratic parties.

During this time, he became acquainted with Hubert Humphrey and helped Humphrey lead the merger of Minnesota's Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties into the DFL in 1944.

No weapons were in possession of the pickets .” On July 26, Farmer-Labor governor Olson declared martial law and mobilized four thousand National Guardsmen, who began issuing operating permits to truck drivers.

In 1931, both the Republicans and the Democrats had 217 members with the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party having one member to decide who would be the deciding vote.

He worked with various groups, including the Virgin Island Congressional Council, the Democratic Party, the Farmer-Labor Party, the single tax movement, the American Friends Service Committee, the Urban League, the American Negro Labor Congress, and the Workers ( Communist ) Party ( the name at that time of the Communist Party USA ).

The Democrats gained 6 net seats during the election, and in combination with Democratic and Farmer-Labor interim appointments and the defection of George W. Norris from the Republican Party to become independent, the Republicans were reduced to 16 seats, the most lopsided Senate since Reconstruction.

While Hillman had maintained warm relations with the Communist Party during the early 1920s — at a time when his leadership was being challenged both by the Forward on the right and by Lithuanian and Italian syndicalists and Jewish anarchists within the union on the left — those relations cooled in 1924 when the CP withdrew its support for the Farmer-Labor Party created to support La Follette's candidacy for President.

** United States Senate elections, 1936: Democrats gained 5 net seats during the election, and in combination with Democratic and Farmer-Labor interim appointments and the defection of George W. Norris from the Republican Party to become independent, the Republicans were reduced to 16 seats, the most lopsided Senate since Reconstruction.

* Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, reasonably successful populist party in Minnesota that merged with the Democratic Party in 1944

“ A Republican less than five years earlier ,” scientist Jeff Taylor notes of HHH in 1947, “ he was now reading lifelong Farmer-Laborites out of the party .” The Humphrey fusionists vanquished “ the traditional agrarian populists within the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party .”

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

Shipstead defected from the Farmer-Labor party in the late 1930s charging that Communist elements were taking control.

Largely dominating Minnesota politics during the Great Depression, it was one of the most successful statewide third party movements in United States history and the longest-lasting affiliate of the national Farmer-Labor movement.

The party was aided by an opposition divided between the Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, who eventually merged in 1944.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Ontario Section ) – The Farmer-Labor Party of Ontario, or more informally and commonly known as The Ontario CCF, was a democratic socialist political party that existed from 1932 to 1961.

After the 1933 Regina convention, the formal name of the party was introduced as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Ontario Section ) – The Farmer-Labor Party, though the shorter Ontario CCF was the most commonly used name.

The Farmer-Labor Party also disappeared from the Senate, as Henrik Shipstead joined the Republican party and Ernest Lundeen had died during the preceding term.

With the Republicans divided between conservative and progressive factions, the Democrats gained five net seats from the Republicans while the Farmer-Labor party gained one.

* Farmer-Labor Party, a defunct political party in the United States

At the time of his death, Lindbergh was a candidate for Governor on the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party ticket and would have been the first Minnesota Governor from the party if he had been elected.

Mahoney was a main figure in the formation of the Farmer-Labor Party and ran for the United States House of Representatives under that party name.