Fellow Workers

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{{Infobox album

| name = Fellow Workers

| type = studio

| artist = Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco

| cover = Fellow workers.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 18, 1999

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| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk
Indie rock

| length = 51:28

| label = Righteous Babe

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| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Ani DiFranco

| type = studio

| prev_title = Up Up Up Up Up Up

| prev_year = 1999

| title = Fellow Workers

| year = 1999

| next_title = To the Teeth

| next_year = 1999

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{{Extra chronology

| artist = Utah Phillips

| type = studio

| prev_title = The Telling Takes Me Home

| prev_year = 1997

| title = Fellow Workers

| year = 1999

| next_title = Moscow Hold

| next_year = 1999

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}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r415784|first=Heather|last=Phares}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = C+[https://web.archive.org/web/20150628034329/http://www.ew.com/article/1999/05/21/fellow-workers Entertainment Weekly review]

| rev3 = Robert Christgau

| rev3Score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2117&name=Ani+DiFranco+%26+Utah+Phillips Robert Christgau Consumer Guide]

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book| last = Brackett | first = Nathan |author2=Christian Hoard | title = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 2004 | location = New York City | pages = [https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/n249 236]-7 | isbn = 0-7432-0169-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac| url-access = registration | quote = rolling stone ani difranco album guide. }}

| rev5 = Spin

| rev5Score = (6/10)[http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1195175&style=music Album reviews at CD Universe]

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Fellow Workers is an album by American folksinger Utah Phillips and American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released May 18, 1999, on Difranco's own Righteous Babe Records. Fellow Workers is DiFranco's and Phillip's second collaboration, following The Past Didn't Go Anywhere. "Fellow workers!" is the phrase with which members of the Industrial Workers of the World traditionally begin their public addresses.

Track listing

  1. "Joe Hill" (instrumental) – 2:36
  2. "Stupid's Song" – 2:43
  3. "The Most Dangerous Woman" – 3:43
  4. "Stupid's Pledge" – 0:14
  5. "Direct Action" – 4:52
  6. "Pie in the Sky" – 3:29
  7. "Shoot or Stab Them" – 2:43
  8. "Lawrence" – 3:29
  9. "Bread and Roses" – 1:45
  10. "Why Come?" – 6:05
  11. "Unless You Are Free" – 0:22
  12. "I Will Not Obey" – 2:00
  13. "The Long Memory" – 5:33
  14. "The Silence That Is Me" – 0:41
  15. "Joe Hill" – 1:37
  16. "The Saw-Playing Musician" – 4:43
  17. "Dump the Bosses" – 1:14
  18. "The Internationale" – 2:48

Historical references

This album refers heavily to historical figures and events, often in the context of labor struggles:

References