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Nashville, Tenn. (September 25, 2026) - Alt-country band, The Cashville Trash Pandas have released their sophomore single, “Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth),” via Guitar One Records. The song is from their eponymous debut album which drops on October 16.
The Official Music Video was Exclusively premiered today by Americana UK here
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Written by Ed Pickford, who hails from the UK, “Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth),” describes the plight of the working class in blunt, bleak, and stark detail.
“Come all you workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your country and counted your dead
Aye, the factories and mills
The shipyards and mines
We've oft been told to keep up with the times
But our skills are not needed now for they've streamlined the job
With lawyers and computers our lives they'll rob
Ah but when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
They'll give us a gun and push us to the fore
And expect us to diе for the land of our birth
Although we nevеr owned one handful of earth”
“The ‘Worker’s Song’ is the most beautifully written love song to the dignity of humanity that has ever been penned,” says Cashville Trash Pandas' lead singer and guitarist, Jubal Lee Young. “The exploitation of the worker by the elite class is a tale as old as time, and you would think we’d have sorted it by now, but as the song says, ‘the race is not run.’”
“Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth)” has been recorded by other artists, including the most well-known version by the Dropkick Murphys. But The Cashville Trash Pandas truly make it their own. Opening with pounding bass guitar and drums the track is underpinned by jangly electric guitars that offer the perfect showcase for the edgy vocals intensely delivered full-throated by Young. It’s urgent, loud, and in your face. It’s the protest song for the common man. It’s perfect. It’s now. It’s needed.
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