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"Broadside" magazine was sort of the literary equivalent of the proverbial ’60s coffeehouse, where folk and protest singers would come together and share their latest songs coming out of the peace, civil rights and labor movements. Over 26 years, the magazine published literally thousands of compositions, and here, collected for the first time, are 89 of the most notable songs that debuted in its hallowed pages, all thoroughly annotated inside a 100-page spiral-bound book. Just a cursory look at the lineup of artists and tunes will give you an idea of how large a role this periodical played: "Links on the Chain" Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs; "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" Peter LaFarge; "Train for Auschwitz" Tom Paxton; "John Brown," "Ballad of Donald White" (rare!) Bob Dylan; "Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" Pete Seeger; "Kill for Peace" Fugs; "Shady Acres" Janis Ian; "Long Time Troubled Road" Eric Andersen and more from Buffy Sainte-Marie, Happy Traum, Nina Simone, Arlo Guthrie, Lucinda Williams and more. Indispensable to understanding the ’60s.