Welcome! "The Evening Blues" is a casual community diary (published Monday - Friday, 8:00 PM Eastern) where we hang out, share and talk about news, music, photography and other things of interest to the community.
Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.
Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.
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Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features a musical celebration of Labor Day. Enjoy!
Green Day - Working Class Hero
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
-- Eugene V. Debs
News and Opinion
You've seen democracy. This is what Bluegrass looks like. B)
Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys
The Seldom Scene
The Stage Hogs
Rhonda Vincent
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Who Are We Fighting Anyway? The Origins of Labor Day & a Scab's Eye View of a Union Strike
The Real State of the American Worker (a failing grade)
A Little Night Music
Maddy Prior - Honest work
Bruce Springsteen - Factory
Paul Black and the Flip Kings- Factory Girl
Woodie Guthrie - Workin Hard Blues
Hazel Dickens + Alice Gerrard - Working Girl Blues
Jerry Garcia + John Kahn - Spike Driver Blues
Mississippi John Hurt - Spike driver blues
Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons
Red Army Choir - Sixteen Tons
Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man
Solomon Burke - Maggie's Farm
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Working Man
Joe Louis Walker - Workin' Blues
James Burton - Working Man Blues
James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here Anymore
The Clash - Career Opportunities
Dropkick Murphys - Workers Song
It's National Pie Day!
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