1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special (theme) Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD40068/71
2. Working (orig.cast): All the Live Long Day (I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman) (Stephen Schwartz) Fynsworth Alley 302062114-2
3. Tim O'Brien: Workin' Chicken & Egg Howdy Skies 1005
4. Grasstowne: Hard Workin' Man (Wayne Winkle) The Other Side of Towne Pinecastle 1170
5. Woody Guthrie: Talking Hard Work Folkways The Original Vision: Songs of Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly Smithsonian Folkways 40000
6. Tom Paxton: I'm the Man That Built the Bridges Ain't That News Elektra import 8122 73565-2
7. James Gordon - Noni Crete: We Work Away (Jas.Gordon) Hardscrabble Road Pipe Street 27
8. Billy Bragg: O Freedom Mr. Love & Justice Anti 86712-2
9. Odetta: Oh Freedom / Come and Go With Me / I'm on My Way (trad) The Tradition Masters Tradition 1065
10. Bob Dylan: Chimes of Freedom No Direction Home Columbia Legacy C2K 93937
11. Matt McGinn: Get Up, Get Out The Best of Matt McGinn, Volume 2 Greentrax 253
12. Sandy Paton: I Never Go to Work (trad) The Many Sides of Sandy Paton Elektra 148
13. A Damsel in Distress (orig.soundtrk-Fred Astaire): Nice Work If You Can Get It (G&I Gershwin) George & Ira Gershwin in Hollywood Rhino 72732
14. Billy Bragg & Wilco: Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (B.Bragg/Woody Guthrie) Mermaid Avenue Vol. II Elektra 62522-2
15. John McCutcheon: Doing My Job Sermon on the Mound Appasongs 2008
16. Matt Watroba: They Used to Play Baseball Here Shine Right Through the Dark Yellow Room 013
17. Neptune's Car: Lighthouse Keeper (Holly Hanson-Steve Hayes) Strawberry Moon self 84501 28508
18. Melissa Javors: You're Like a Lighthouse Crazy Wisdom Chrome 4205
19. Antje Duvekot: Lighthouse The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer Black Wolf BW008
20. Anais Mitchell: Of a Friday Night The Brightness Righteous Babe 053D
21. Finest Kind: He Comes Like the Rain (Like Wind He Goes) (Bruce Utah Phillips) For Honour & For Gain Fallen Angle 09
22. Jill O'Hara: Old Man (Randy Newman) Alone Together self no#
23. Jim McGrath: Before They Close the Minstrel Show (Bob Coltman) Last of the Romantics Wepecket Island Records 011
24. Andy Cohen: Railroad Blues (Sam McGee, adapt. A.Cohen) Built Right on the Ground Earwig 4949
25. Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys (Peter Rowan, guitar): Kansas City Railroad Blues (trad) Live Recordings 1956-1969 Smithsonian Folkways 40063
26. Jimmie Rodgers: The Brakeman's Blues First Sessions 1927-1928 Rounder 1056
27. Liam Clancy & Tommy Makem: Finnegan's Wake (Joyce-trad-Clancy-Makem) (Stages Music Hall - November 21, 1979) WFMT Recording
28. Gerard Hoffnung: Then I Became a Bricklayer A Last Encore BBC Radio 780563-536758
29. Mike Cross: Michael the Mason Irregular Guy Sugar Hill 1009
30. Billy Bragg: M For Me Mr. Love & Justice Anti 86712-2
31. Dar Williams: Family Mortal City Razor & Tie 2821-2
32. Peter Mulvey: You and Me and the Ten Thousand Things The Knuckleball Suite Signature Sounds SIG1297
33. Tom Juravich: Millworker (James Taylor) Altar of the Bottom Line Finnegan 002
34. Si Kahn: Aragon Mill In My Heart Philo 1169
35. Maddy Prior: Honest Work (Todd Rundgren) Flesh & Blood Park 38
36. Jonathan Edwards: Everybody Works in China (Henry Gross) (Folkstage - May 15, 2010) WFMT Recording
37. Billy Bragg: Farm Boy Mr. Love & Justice Anti 86712-2
38. Finest Kind: The Riley Boys (Carol Denney) For Honour & For Gain Fallen Angle 09
39. Garnet Rogers: Our Boy (Folkstage - January 30, 2010) WFMT Recording
40. Suzzy & Maggie Roche: For Those Whose Work Is Invisible (S.Roche/Mary Gordon) Why the Long Face Red House RHRCD 179
41. Michael Johnson: It's My Job (Mac McAnally) Live at the Bluebird Café American Originals 4001-2
42. Jim Photoglo: A Job Well Done (J.Photoglo-Jon Vezner) Fly Straight Home Grifftone 76481 10202
43. Kitty Donohoe: Do What You Love This Road Tonight Roheen 005
44. Working (orig.cast): Something to Point To (Craig Carnelia) Fynsworth Alley 302062114-2
45. Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I'm Gone (close) (Phil Ochs) Spoken in Love Longtail LT003-2
    

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