Workin' Man's Blues: A playlist for the hard laborers whose sweat and toil make the world go round

Sleepy John Estes- Workin' Man Blues


Alan Lomax Prison Recordings- Early in the Morning


Captain Beefheart- Hard Workin' Man


Bob Dylan- Maggie's Farm


Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line


Sam Cooke- Chain Gang


Bob Seger- I've Been Workin'


Van Morrison- Cleaning Windows


Blackfoot- Diary of a Working Man


Merle Haggard- Workin' Man Blues


Johnny Cash- I Never Picked Cotton


Levon Helm- Growing Trade


Woody Guthrie- Talking Hard Work


Jimmy Reed- Big Boss Man


Leadbelly- Line 'Em


Jim Croce- Workin' at the Car Wash Blues


Bill Monroe- Muleskinner Blues


Bruce Springsteen- Factory


Lightnin' Hopkins- I Asked The Bossman


The Exception- The Eagle Flies on Friday


Rolling Stones with Guns N Roses- Salt of the Earth


Mississippi Fred McDowell- Long Line Skinner