Joe Hill
Swedish-American activist and songwriterWikipedia
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Sep 8, 2026
Tom MorelloGUEST
Joan Baez.
Tom MorelloGUEST
And there's a guy named Joe Hill, who sort of is the founding father of punk and political music in the, you know, 19 teens.
Tom MorelloGUEST
I realized that music, that's the heaviest music of all time.
Tom MorelloGUEST
Like there's not a Marshall stack in sight and with the right couplet and the right intent that, you know, an acoustic guitar and a singer who really, really means it is as heavy as anything in the sepultura catalog.
Jared DavidsonGUEST
And I was in various social radical movements at the time and got the history bug and wanted to learn a bit more about social movements and working class activity in this country.
Jared DavidsonGUEST
And that's when I discovered the archives.
Jared DavidsonGUEST
And around 2009, 2010, I decided to write a book on Joe Hills Ashes, who was a industrial workers of the world singer-songwriter from the USA based in the States.
Jared DavidsonGUEST
And apparently his ashes came all the way to New Zealand and I wanted to find out if this was true or not.
Jared DavidsonGUEST
And so to do that I had to learn how to do research, I had to visit the archives for the first time and that's where I really got the history bug and became an archivist.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
As union organizers had been murdered across the country.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
In fact, there's references in Matewan to Big Bill Hayward and Joe Hill.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
Because those names were common.
Robyn Roxanne KincaidHOST
They were common knowledge in the union movement.
Brace BeldenGUEST
million movies about whatever you want.
Brace BeldenGUEST
You can make a movie about motherfucking Joe Hill.
Brace BeldenGUEST
You can make a movie about fucking, you can probably make a Game of Thrones about Lennon, right? It's not going to move the needle.
Brace BeldenGUEST
That's not going to do anything, right? It's going to make you feel good.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There is power in a union.
Alec CummingHOST
That was Billy Bragg doing a more modern version of a song written by Joe Hill in 1913.
Alec CummingHOST
Meanwhile, this is King Missile, a song that many of us can probably identify with a little bit, even though you might not want to tell anybody.
John S. HallSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
anybody.It's the best way to feel better about your job.
Tom MorelloGUEST
It was, I was a fan of heavy music, and I discovered folk music is as heavy as any music than anybody ever made.
Tom MorelloGUEST
And as Springsteen's Nebraska dug back to the first Dylan Records, Woody Guthrie, you know, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, then Joe Hill before that.
Tom MorelloGUEST
Like that was music that was like, oh, wow.
Tom MorelloGUEST
Like this is a treasure trove of badass songs to change the world.
Ali VallartaHOST
And that says a lot about, I think, the state of our society and our economy that we have a labor union legend from.
Ali VallartaHOST
Well, not from, but the story of him, Joe Hill here in Salt Lake City.
Ali VallartaHOST
You've maybe seen Joe Hill murals around town.
Ali VallartaHOST
There's a really cool monument that was installed a couple of years ago at Sugar House Park.
Ali VallartaHOST
Maybe you sing a song of his.
Ali VallartaHOST
Angie, you love history.
Ali VallartaHOST
I do.
Ali VallartaHOST
Tell us a little bit about Joe Hill.
Utah PhillipsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ship gonna sail, gonna sail someday.
Utah PhillipsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Joe Hill said, don't mourn organized.
Utah PhillipsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ship gonna sail, gonna sail someday.
Utah PhillipsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Gene Depp said, well, there's a soul in prison.
Les ThomasGUEST
I think there are very long and deep traditions of truth-telling in music.
Les ThomasGUEST
You can probably go back to very, very ancient times or you can look at, you know, figures like Joe Hill, uh, Woody Guthrie, you had the whole civil rights era.
Les ThomasGUEST
Um, you know, the staples singers, Nina Simone, um, Gil Scott Heron, um, you know, Bob Dylan's more political work when he was younger around that, um, you know, folk scare of the early 1960s.
Les ThomasGUEST
And I think that all of this kind of music, it does help to create a soundtrack of our lives and it's part of shaping our consciousness and really, I think, aiding inspiration in working towards a better world.
David KindlerGUEST
And going back to Woody Guthrie, what I was talking about with my gig that was doing last week, I was also doing Pete Seeger.
David KindlerGUEST
And the people who Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie were inspired by was particularly Joe Hill and the International Workers of the World and the union songs that they used to write.
David KindlerGUEST
And so Pete and Woody were inspired by those sort of roundabout World War I sort of compositions.
David KindlerGUEST
And, of course, later on in the 60s, the people who were inspired by Woody and Pete Seeger went on to have the folk revival of the 1960s.
David KindlerGUEST
So that was my take on it.
David KindlerGUEST
It went all the way back to 1911, 1913 and 1915.
David KindlerGUEST
Those are the first three songs that I did for the Joe Hill last week.
David KindlerGUEST
So it's a wonderful, wonderful story.