Track Listing

1. Peace Arch Introduction
2. Opening Remarks By Harvey Murphy
3. Paul Robeson's Welcoming Remarks
4. Every Time I Feel The Spirit
5. Intro To Joe Hill By Harvey Murphy
6. Joe Hill
7. Loch Lomond
8. Intro. To No More Auction Block
9. No More Auction Block
10. Oh No, John
11. Love Will Find A Way
12. Ol' Man River
13. Introductory Speech
14. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
15. Go Down Moses
16. Jacob's Ladder
17. Theme From Beethoven's 9th Symphony
18. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
19. Joe Hill
20. Oh Thou Silent Autumn Night
21. Scandaliz' My Name
22. Song Of The Four Rivers
23. Without Thee (Gaelic Folk Song)
24. Chin Chin (Chinesse Marching Song)
25. Speech

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87858 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Best of, Live
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

From Amazon.com
From 1950 to '58, Paul Robeson was prevented by the U.S. State Department from traveling outside the country. The restriction extended to Canada, where passports aren't normally required of American citizens. Robeson gave four concerts during those years at the Peace Arch Park near Blaine, Washington, at the Canadian border. This CD presents the 1952 and '53 concerts at which Robeson (accompanied by solo pianists Lawrence Brown and Alan Booth) sang across the international boundary from the back of a flatbed truck. In addition to brief speeches by Robeson and union leader Harvey Murphy, the great singer/political activist mixes traditional fare, spirituals, and "Ol' Man River" with broadsides such as "Joe Hill" and the Chinese marching song "Chin Chin." The sound quality is imperfect but listenable, the occasion is historic, and Robeson is great. --Stanley Booth

People
An All-American footballer, lawyer and Broadway star of Othello, The Emperor Jones, Robeson was also a mightily gifted vocalist for whom Jerome Kern wrote the classic "Ol' Man River." But Robeson's political activism--he fought tirelessly for racial equality, but also for Soviet-style socialism--proved a career killer. With his passport revoked in 1950 and his name high on showbiz blacklists, the Princeton, N.J.-born star was limited to performing in trade-union concerts like these, held on the U.S.-Canadian border in 1952 and 1953. Here his astounding bass-baritone resonates across four decades as he sings soaring spirituals and mournful songs of protest....