No Labor day set here.
At first I wondered why they didn't rerun last year's Labor Day set, but then realized AL didn't do one then either.
So I dug out my cassette of Dave's brilliant, uber-political 2007 set. Damn, that was Mr Morey at his inimitable, screw-the-suits best.
1. Huey Lewis & the News - Workin' For a Living
2. Jeff Beck - Get Workin'
3. Cate Brothers - Union Man
4. Strawbs - Part of the Union
5. Randy Newman - Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man
6. John Lennon - Working Class Hero
7. Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown
8. Stan Ridgeway - I Wanna Be a Boss
9. Bob Dylan - Union Sundown
10. Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove it
Had to listen in the car, as my nearly-20-year-old SONY cassette deck decided to give up the ghost -- do they still make them anymore?
That sounded really familiar, so I took a peek in the Shraytabase to see if I had it recorded. I do--but I discovered that this set also served as the 2006
and 2008 Labor Day sets. Not only that, the one from 2004 (there wasn't one in '05) bears a few distinct similarities to this one: namely, it starts with the same two songs, ends with the same song, and has one other song in common (the Cate Bros. tune). So even though Dave felt some solidarity with his unionized brethren, it wasn't so much so that he felt compelled to create a new piece for them every year.
And to answer your question about cassette players, yes they do. But most of them come with USB outputs to make digitizing your cassette library more convenient--and eventually rendering your new machine obsolete as well.
