Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Playlist for 1/25/10

For Haiti - Past Disaster Songs
TIM GRIMM - Pray for Rain and The People's Highway - Farm Songs - Vault Recs 2009
DOUG SPEARS - Hemingway's Hurricane - Welcome Home - 2009 Doug Spears
BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Auchengeich Disaster - Zama Zama - 2009 Temple Recs.
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - We Were There! - 2002 Beverly Grant
EVAN GREER - Ballad of Hurricane Katrina - Never Surrender - Riot Folk 2009
DAVID ROVICS - New Orleans - Waiting for the Fall - A retrospective - BMI

Songs to End Racism
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Recs.
DAVE LIPPMAN - Free At Last - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998 Dave Lippman
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise -Riot Folk 2005
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Harriet Tubman/Steal Away - Steal Away -1984 Appleseed Recs
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - We Shall Overcome - People's Music Network Live Concert 1/06
-TERRY KITCHEN - The Greatest Game They Never Played That's How It Used To Be - 2004 Urban Campfire
KEVIN SO - Stronger Side By Side - Best Foot Forward -2009 WingBone Recs.
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Songs About Corporate Dominance - in light of the Supreme Court decision on corporate spending in elections
HEALY & JURAVICH - Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
COLLEEN KATTAU - Borderlines - Sing It Down - 1996 A Two Story Production
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Oh, America - Free to Fall - Beaucoup Blue 2009
ANI DIFRANCO - Blood in the Boardroom - Puddle Dive - Righteous Babe Recs. 1994
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Organized Crime - If All the Land Would Rise - Riot Folk 2005
ANNE FEENEY - The Corporate Welfare Song - Have You Been to Jail For Justice? 2000 Anne Feeney
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - You Can't Buy Me - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
TOM PAXTON - I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae - mp3 Tom Paxton 2009

Wake-Up Songs
ANI DIFRANCO - Willing to Fight - Puddle Dive - Righteous Babe Recs.1994
DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998 Dave Lippman
SARA THOMSEN - Freedom Song - By Breath - 2003 Sara Thomsen

Monday, January 11, 2010

Playlist for 1/11 and 1/18/10

Songs of Winter
Anne Feeney/Winter, Go Away!/Heartland/1994 Super 88 Recs.
Will Danforth/Winter Wind/Grey Dawn Breaking/ 2004 Namaste
Music, BMI
Mara Levine/Raise the Dead of Wintertime/Mara's Gems/Mara's
Creations 2008

Marking the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo
on 1/11/02
David Rovics/Guantanamo Bay/For the Moment/David Rovics
2005
Colleen Kattau/What Shall We Do with the School of Torture/
Sing It Down/1996 A Two Story Prod.
Kevin So/Letter from Guantanamo/Best Foot Forward/2009
WingBone Recs.
David Rovics/After We Torture Our Prisoners/For the
Moment/DavidRovics 2005

Songs on the bombing of Iraq which first started
on 1/17/91

Tom Fairnie/Rockets over Babylon/songsforchange.com
David Rovics/DU/Living in these Times/David Rovics 2005
Wild Wimmin for Peace/Missile Envy/The Great Peace
March/Mayday, 1986 Anne Feeney
Tom Neilson/WMD/Fools No More/Roaring Jelly Prods.
2006
Teresa Healy & Tom Juravich/Arabian Nights/Tanblged in
our Dreams/2006 Healy & Juravich
David Rovics/Sing a Song for Basra/Hang a Flag in the
Window/2002 David Rovics

Songs about soldiers
Joe Jencks/Dear Mr. President/Hail to the Thief II/2004
Running Scared Prods.
John Flynn/Semper Fi/America's Waiting/2009 Flying
Stone Music Group
Julius Margolin/I Don't Want to Be a Soldier/Hail to the
Thief II/2004 Running Scared Prods.
Charlie King & Karen Brandow/Trying to Find a Way
Home/On the Journey/2005 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
Ethan Miller & Kate Boverman/Come Home/If All the
Land Would Rise/Riot Folk 2005
Ethan Miller & Kate Boverman/Turn Your Guns the Other
Way/If All the Land Would Rise/Riot Folk 2005

Songs of Encouragement and Hope
Dougie MacLean/Not Lie Down/Who Am I/Dunkeld Recs. 2001
Libby Roderick/Lay It All Down/How Could Anyone/2005
Libby Roderick Music
Sara Thomsen/Knock on the Door/Fertile Ground/Sara
Thomsen 1999
Evan Greer/Never Surrender/Never Surrender/Riot Folk 2009
emma's revolution/Keep on Movin' Forward/roots, rock &
revolution/2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Singing for Peace
Holly Near with emma's revolution/Study War NoMore/
We Came to Sing!/2009 Calico Tracks Music
Teresa Healy & Tom Juravich/Singing for Peace/Tangled in
our Dreams/2006 Healy & Juravich
Sara Thomsen/Is It for Freedom/Fertile Ground/Sara Thomsen
1999

Monday, January 4, 2010

Playlist for 1/4/10

Artist/Song Title/Album/Label & Publishing Date

Courage for the Year to Come:
Dougie MacLean / Ready for the Storm / Essential Dougie MacLean / Dunkeld Recs. 2007
Sloan Wainwright / I Stand Up / Waterbug.com Artists Sampler / 2002 Waterbug
Beaucoup Blue / I Heard Gabriel Singing / Hearts at Home / Beaucup Blue 2005
Emma's Revolution / I Will Stand / roots, rock & revolution / 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Hard Times:
Terence Martin / What Other People Lose / Even Trade / 2008 Terence Martin
Steve Suffet / Troubled Waters Rising / I've Been Up on the Mountain / 2007 Steve Suffet
Rory McLeod / Farming Womans War / Travelling Home / Rory McLeod 1992
Tokyo Rosenthal / Mister Tell Me 'Bout the Great Depression / Demo Tokyo Rosenthal 2009
Gina Forsyth / Promised Land / Waterbug.com Artists Sampler / 2002 Waterbug
David Ferrard / Hard Times Come Again No More / Across the Troubled Wave / Alter Road Recs. 2009

Outlaws:
Tom Neilson / Only Outlaws Will Be Free / Only Outlaws Will Be Free / Roaring Jelly Prods. 20005
Doug Spears / Yellow Butter Moon / Welcome Home / 2009 Doug Spears
Old & in the Gray / Pancho & Lefty / Old & in the Gray / 2002 Dawg Prods by David Grisman
David Rovics / Pirates of Somalia / Ten Thousand Miles Away / BMI - David Rovics 2009

NonConformists:
David Zimmerman / Passing Through / Just a Little Something / 1999 Affenlaut Music
David Caraher / Gonna Be a Cowboy / Radio Boy / 2006 Dennis Caraher
Terry Kitchen / Jumping Fences / That's How It Used to Be / 2004 Urban Campfire Prods.
Colleen Kattau / No Ordinary Heifer / Inhabited Woman / 2007 Windlight Studio

The Price of Oil:
Colleen Kattau / Royally Oily / Inhabited Woman / 2007 Windlight Studio
Amy Martin / It's About Oil / Hail to the Thief II / 2004 Running Scared Prods.
Prince Myshkins / Ministry of Oil / Total Myshkin Awareness / Rick Burkhardt & Andy Gricevish
Jay Mankita / They Lied / Dogs Are Watching Us / Dreams on Tape Music 2004
Emma's Revolution / Who Lies / roots, rock & revolution / 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

In Anticipation of emma's revolution's concert at the Echo Lake in Leverett on 1/7/10:
Emma's Revolution / Bound for Freedom / One / 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
Emma's Revolution / If I Give Your Name / One / 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
Emma's Revolution / One By One / One / 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.