1. Joe Hill (Instrumental) 2. Stupid's Song 3. The Most Dangerous Woman 4. Stupid's Pledge 5. Direct Action 6. Pie In The Sky 7. Shoot Or Stab Them 8. Lawrence 9. Bread And Roses 10. Why Come? 11. Unless You Are Free 12. I will Not Obey 13. The Long Memory 14. The Silence That Is Me 15. Joe Hill 16. The Saw-Playing Musician 17. Dump The Bosses 18. The Internationale

Fellow Workers isn't Ani DiFranco's typical fare, so even devotees need to tread with some caution here. On this album she teams up for the second time with sexagenarian folkie Utah Phillips for what amounts to a musical journey through the history of the American labor movement. DiFranco and other musicians cook up evocative backing tracks on guitar, keyboards, and bass, while Phillips delivers spoken-word exhortations to a crowd of enthusiastic youngsters, urging them to "Dump the Bosses" and take "Direct Action." Phillips is an engaged and engaging speaker and singer, and his message of worker unity should give anyone pause in this era when economic boom times means that benefits get slashed, job security disappears, and the gap between rich and poor stretches into a chasm. And so few stories in popular culture are told from a working-class perspective, that Fellow Workers is notable simply for speaking with that point of view. But the album is a bit like an evening at socialist camp. If your politics are anywhere to the right of Marx and Lenin, you're in for some rough going. Anthony DeCurtis