Josh White (here at Café Society circa June 1946) sang lead on most Union Boys songs
Background information
Origin
New York City
Genres
Folk
Years active
11 March 1944
Musical artist
The Union Boys (also "Josh White and the Union Boys"[1]) was an American folk music group, formed impromptu in 1944, to record several songs on an album called Songs for Victory: Music for Political Action. Its "all-star leftist"[2] members were Josh White, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Tom Glazer (and Woody Guthrie by contributing a song).[3][4][5]
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"Songs for Victory: Music for Political Action". Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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Wald, Elijah (6 December 2013). Josh White: Society Blues. Routledge. p. 116. ISBN 9781136723650. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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Denning, Michael (1998). The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. Verso. p. 350. ISBN 9781859841709. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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Phillips, Utah (19 February 2016). Big Red Song Book: 250+ IWW Songs!. PM Press. pp. –??. ISBN 9781629632605. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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Santelli, Robert; Davidson, Emily (1999). Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 197 (no Woody Guthrie), 209 (Moe Asch). ISBN 9780819563910. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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