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Faith Petric
12+ albums
folkacousticamericanapoliticalclass struggle
about
California Bay Area folk singer. Sings workers struggle classics and original often humorous songs. Mostly Guitar and Vocal. longer bio: Faith Craig Petric was born on September 13, 1915 in a log cabin on a homestead near the Clearwater River in Northern Idaho. She's the youngest of four children, all born in that same cabin, which was built from trees cut on homestead land. "When did you start singing?" she is often asked. "There never was a time I remember that I didn't sing", says Faith. "First it was in church. My father, in addition to being a schoolteacher, carpenter, farmer, and inventor, was a Methodist minister, and he had a fine tenor voice. Church consisted of lots of singing, and I still sing hymns I learned at age five and younger. Hymns have wonderful opportunities for harmonies, almost as good as sea shanties, I think. "We had an old pump organ at home, and later a piano, and we would sing ‘Juanita’, ‘Old Oaken Bucket’, ‘When You and I were Young’, and many, many such treasures. In the mid-20s, my brother Glenn and I somehow found cowboy songs and memorized these along with ‘Abdullah Bulbul Ameer’, which we would act out with great wooden swords. In high school and college I sang in glee clubs, and then in the1930s, I found the great songs of the Spanish civil War, and radical, union, and topical songs of all kinds.” Shortly after retiring form her 9-to-5 job in 1970 at age 55, Faith and 14 friends formed the Portable Folk Festival and toured the country for
top songs
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Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called A Red - Live / 1984
3,2452Little Red Hen - Live / 1984
2483Grandma's Battle Cry
1334Little Red Hen
1095Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red
886If I Could Be The Rain
437Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called A Red (Live / 1984)
328Little Red Hen (Live / 1984)
329Little Red Men
2810West Virginia Mine Disaster (A. G. Cook Edit)
24albums
IWW Rebel Voices: Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World (Live / 1984)
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Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 2, No. 9) Women In Song
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Rebel Voices
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Rebel Voices: Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World
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IWW Rebel Voices: Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World
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IWW Rebel Voices: Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World (Live, 1984)
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Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips
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Rebel Voices - Industrial Workers of The World
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IWW Rebel Voices
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Faith's Favorites
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When Did We Have Sauerkraut? A Collection Of Extraordinary And Outrageous Songs
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Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips (Disc 1)