Songs of Union: Joe Hill and Heavy Meadow

I'll be playing a set of songs by the greatest bard of America's Gilded Age -- Joe Hill, the itinerant laborer and song-maker, who sang the song of the working man, who was executed by the State of Utah in 1914 for a crime he didn't commit, who was honored by 20,000 people who marched at his funeral in Chicago, who was written out of state history curricula, and whose song rages on.

I'll also be playing a set of my own eco-spiritual psychedelic folk songs, mostly from my first two albums, The Fool and The Magician, but also some unhinged whimsy.

The songs of Joe Hill come from the picket lines and the labor camps and the mines of early 20th century America. He was a Swede who made his way to the United States and bindle-stiffed around the country, making songs along the way, and soon becoming the bard of the IWW -- the Industrial Workers of the World, "One Big Union" they called it.

Though he was dirt poor his whole short life, he was absolute legend in his time -- writing his own story into history through song. And without Joe Hill, there's no Woody Guthrie. Without Woody Guthrie there's no Bob Dylan. Without Bob Dylan, there sure as heck isn't any Heavy Meadow. And the story goes on. 💜🎶🌾

We'll get into his songs and story