Name: Homestead Town
Channel: Mike Stout
Description: Homestead Town used to be the story of a boom town

Homestead Town used to be the story of a boom town

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Mike Stout

Americana folk music about the problems of the common man in the tradition of Woody Guthrie who said aA folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it"

Song Info

Genre

Country • Bluegrass

Charts

#684 in subgenre Peak #14

Charts

Peak #120

Author

Mike Stout

Rights

Mike Stout 2003

Uploaded

December 21, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Homestead Town used to the be story of a glory boom town. Beginning in the 1880's thousands of immigrants came to Homestead, Pa. to toil in the fire, heat, and smoke making the steel for America's skyscrapers and wars. They fought Frick and the Pinkertons, and political corruption to win rights and fair pay for workers in America. The Homestead Steel works and Homestead Town boomed for 125 years. Closed in 1986, the historic Homestead Works was replaced by a shopping mall and low wage part-time jobs. The stores, bars, and churches of Homestead Town sit abandoned. The glory of the Homestead workers and their families lives on.

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