Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Playlist for 12/17/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Happy New Year:

GREENFIELD HARMONY/Mary Cay Brass, Dir. - New Year Carol - 12/18/10 Live Concert
SI KAHN - New Year's Eve - New Wood - 1994 Rounder Records
LORETTA HAGEN - As We Count - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 4 - 2009
ZOE MULFORD - Answer the Knock at the Door - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 6 - 2011

More Holiday Tunes:

AMY CAROL WEBB - Reasons for the Season - Breaking Light - 2010
GREENFIELD HARMONY/Mary Cay Brass, Dir. - Hanuka - 12/11/05 Live Concert
AMY CAROL WEBB - Kwanzaa - Breaking Light - 2010
SANDY HADDON - The Holly & the Ivy - The Holly & the Ivy - 2010

Winter:
PAT WICTOR & BEAUCOUP BLUE - Cold Cold December - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 4 - 2009
SANDY HADDON - In the Bleak Midwinter - The Holly & the Ivy - 2010
DANA ROBINSON - Redpoll - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 6 - 2011
TOM PACHECO - The Snowstorm - The Best of Tom Pacheco Vol II - 2011
JOE CROOKSTON - Broken & Beautiful - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 6 - 2011

Love:
BEV BARNETT & GREG NEWLON - Love Can Change the World - Love Can Change the World - 2011 TrueWind Music
ROBERT BOBBY - Regifting your Love - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 6 - 2011
BROTHER SUN - Love Is the Water - 2011 Brother Sun Music
JOE JENCKS - It's All About Love - The Candle & the Flame - 2007
FRICTION FARM - Please Try Love - Every Mile Is a Memory - 2010 Aidan Quinn & Christine Stay

Celebrate:
SI KAHN - Dancing in the Kitchen - Threads - 2002 Double Time Music
TOM PAXTON - Dance in the Kitchen - Comedians & Angels - 2008 Appleseed Recordings
DAVID FERRARD - Take Me Out Waltzing Tonight - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - This Little Light of Mine - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
BROTHER SUN - Shine - 2011 Brother Sun Music
UBAKA HILL - Can't Hold Back the Dawning - Beyond the Wind - 2006 Splevine Music

Peace:
STEVE SUFFET - Next Year in a City of Peace - Low Rent District - 2008
TOM PAXTON - How Beautiful Upon the Mountain - Comedians & Angels - 2008 Appleseed Recordings
SARA THOMSEN - Deep Peace - By Breath - 2003
TRACY SPRING - Love Is A Round - 2010 mp3

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Playlist for 12/20/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Happy Solstice:
PATTI CASEY - Green Solstice - live at "Winter Tales" with Pete Sutherland - Unreleased
MAGPIE - Solstice Carol - Last Month of the Year - 2002 Sliced Bread Records
PETER MAYER - The Longest Night - Midwinter - 2005
TIM GRIMM - The Longest Night - Farm Songs - 2009
LARRY MURANTE - Ready for the Dark - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records

Happy Holidays:
RUBY & AVA LOCKNAR - Is It Hanukah or Chanuka? - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records
MAGPIE - Huron Carol - Last Month of the Year - 2002 Sliced Bread Records
PETER MAYER - Christmas Morning - Midwinter - 2005
DARRYL PURPOSE - The Christians & the Pagans - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records
SALLY FINGERETT - Jewish Kid Born on Christmas Day Talkin' Blues - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records

Christmas Songs:
SI KAHN - Detroit December - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Christmas in the Trenches - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
WOODY GUTHRIE - 1913 Massacre - youtube.com
ERIK BALKEY - Christmastime on Mission Street - Hudson Harding Sampler, Vol 5 - 2010
ANNE FEENEY - Brave New Christmas - Dump the Bosses Off Your Backs - 2008

Singing Truth to Power:
SI KAHN - We Are Strong - Threads - 2002 double time music, inc.
TOM NEILSON - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
EVAN GREER - Ya Basta - Never Surrender - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Happy Birthday, Phil:
PHIL OCHS - Changing' Hands - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - Smithsonian Folkways
PHIL OCHS - Freedom Riders - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - Smithsonian Folkways
PHIL OCHS - We Seek No Wider War - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - Smithsonian Folkways
PHIL OCHS - Changes - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - Smithsonian Folkways
ERIC ANDERSON - When I'm Gone - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Peace and Joy:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JANIS IAN - Joy - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Solar Carol - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Playlist for 12/13/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Holidays:

ERIK BALKEY - Peace Come Christmas Day - Just One Angel - 2010 Yellow Tail Records
IVAN & ALYOSHA - Rebel Jesus - promo kit
JOE JENCKS - Christmas in Mansfield - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 4 - 2009 Hudson Harding Music
CRAIG WERTH - Beside the Tree - Hudson Harding Sampler Vol 5 - 2010 Hudson Harding Music
The Nutopians - Happy X-Mas (War Is Over) - Imagined - 2010 Rex Fowler

Stinking, rotten systems:

AMY MARTIN - Rose of Sharon - Bind Me to Free - 2006
HARLEY STRING BAND - Waltzing Matilda - Didn't Come to Stay Long
BRAD YODER - Land of the Free - Used - 2002 Reverie Records
LEON ROSSELSON - Money Matters - Harry's Gone Fishing - Gadfly Records

Culture today:
LOIS MORTON - The Cell Phone Song - As I See It - 2008
SARA THOMSEN - Propriety - Fertile Ground - 1999
PETER SIEGEL - Boxed Up - Living in Rome - 2008
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Women Walking Wearing Wings - 2011
LOIS MORTON - Twentieth Century Girl - As I See It - 2008

Dreams:

MEG HUTCHINSON - Hard to Change - The Living Side - 2010 Red House Records
DAVID FERRARD - Visions of Our Youth - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
UBAKA HILL - Dream Shift - Beyond the Wind - 2006 Splevine Music
PETE SEEGER - Over the Rainbow - Seeds: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

Songs of the Spirit/choral:

CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON/Joan Gregoryk, Dir. - Somos El Barco -The Great American Folksong - 2010 Dorian Recordings
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO - Ngingenwe Emoyeni - Africa, Never Stand Still - 1994 Ellipsis Arts
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS/Bev Grant, Dir. - Guantanamera - The Power of Song - Bev Grant Music

JOHN SHELDON - Wind & Water - Elements - 2005 Big Rowzer Music

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Playlist for 12/6/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

US at home:
HOPE MACHINE - Heart of America - March - 2006
RAY KORONA - Rotten to the Root - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Our Problems Stem from the Acceptance of this Filthy Rotten System - The Distance Remaining - 2010 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CONNOR GARVEY - Monster - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

US Abroad:
SARA THOMSEN - Keepin' the Peace - Big Breath - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Hugo Chavez - For the Moment - 2005
ETHAN MILLER - Recipe for Cocaine - Northern Spy - 2009
COLLEEN KATTAU - Royally Oily - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
JAY MANKITA - They Lied - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004 Dreams on Tape
JIM PAGE - Who Are They & Why Do They Hate Us - Collateral Damage - 2002 Whidisle Music

Labor:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Stand Together - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROVICS - Drink of the Death Squads - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002
ANNE FEENEY - A Song for Santiago Cruz - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back - 2008
CHARLIE KING - Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There - 2002 Beverly Grant

Environment:
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
GRANT DERMODY - Waterbound - Lay Down My Burden - 2010
MAGPIE - Living Planet - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls -Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

War:
MARK DVORAK - Saddest Town in illinois - Time Ain't Got Nothin' On Me - 2010
ADLER & HEARNE - A Hundred Years from Now - Live at Eddie's Attic - 2011 Spring Hollow Records
ROY ZIMMERMAN - That Is the War on Terror - Faulty Intelligence - 2006

Peace:
HOPE MACHINE - Peace Rant - Heart of America - March - 2006
HOLLY NEAR w/ EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Study War No More - We Came to Sing! - 2009 Calico Tracks Music
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Playlist for 11/29/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Occupy Everywhere:
MANKANA - We Are the Many - 2011 makanamusic.com
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Occupy the USA - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
FRED ARCOLEO - We Are the Ones - 2011
EVAN GREER - Their Days Are Numbered - youtube.com
DAVID ROVICS - Shut Them Down - Living In These Times - 2001

Stop Shopping from Corporations:
DAVID ROVICS - Everything Looks the Same - Waiting for the Fall - BMI
GRANT PEEPLES - Down Here in the County - Okra & Ecclesiastes - 2011 Gatorbone Records
CARLA ULBRICH - We Don't Need a Walmart - Live from Outer Space - 2009
TOM NEILSON - 4K Credit Line - Biomess - 2010
BRAD YODER - How It Ends - Excellent Trouble - 2011
PAUL KAPLAN - I Had an Old Coat - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music
CHATHAM STREET - House of Fools - All That Mattered - 2011

On the right:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Taxed Enough Already? (TEA) - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVE LIPPMAN - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
FREEBO - The Freedom Wall - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
ROY ZIMMERMAN - My Conservative Girlfriend - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes

War:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Not My War - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
AMY MARTIN - DC '03 - Bind Me to Free - 2006
FREEBO - A Soldier at War - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - demo CD 2011
PETE SEEGER - Healing River - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

Environment:
CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay -Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - The Crow - Raven Speaks - 2009 Icebird Records
SCOTT AINSLIE - The Feral Crow - The Feral Crow - 2004
SPOOK HANDY - Patty's Farm - Freedom Is Your Destiny - 1995 Akashic Records

CONNOR GARVEY - Monster - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Playlist for 11/22/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Happy Thanksgiving:
SI KAHN - Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving - - 2007 SCR Prods.
JOE JENCKS - Thank God for the Rain - I Hear Your Voice - 2003
SARA THOMSEN - God Bless the Grass - By Breath - 2003

Peace:
SCOTT AINSLIE - Rice Grows Again in Vietnam - The Feral Crow - 2004
CRABTREE & MILLS - Rise Above - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Women Say No - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done - This Land: Woody Guthrie's America - 2011 Appleseed Prods.
TOM PAXTON - How Beautiful Upon the Mountain - Comedians & Angels - 2008 Appleseed Prods.

Resist and Occupy:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - It Isn't Nice - Ear the the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
SCOTT AINSLIE - Don't Obey - The Feral Crow - 2004
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Rise - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
FREEBO - Stand Up - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008
PETE SEEGER - If I Had a Hammer - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

Change:
BOB DYLAN - The Times They Are A-Changin' - Best of Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Change - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROTH - Rise We Will - Think Twice - 2004
SARA THOMSEN - Todo Cambia - Everything Changes - 2008
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Windows of the Heart - Standing Our Ground - PMN live concert 2006 - People's Music Network

What Change Looks Like:

CRAIG WERTH - The Spokes Man - The Spokes Man - 2011
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Old Cap Moore - This Land: Woody Guthrie's America - 2011 Appleseed Prods.
DAVID ROVICS - Sugihara - Troubador - 2010
FREEBO - We Are One People - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
GREG GREENWAY - What Must Be Done - Brother Sun - 2011 Brother Sun
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train - Sanalwami - Imbizo - 2011 Appleseed Recordings
PAT WICTOR - Love Is the Water - Brother Sun - 2011 Brother Sun Music
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Tree of Life - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Playlist for 11/15/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Veterans' Day:
DAVID ROVICS - The Last Lincoln Veteran - Big Red Sessions - 2011
SI KAHN - Clarence Kailin - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
SQUID JIGGERS - The Stranger - 33 1/3 - 2011
MEG BRAUN - I'm Home - Broken Places - 2011
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia - Broken Sky - 2008 Alter Road Records
ETHAN MILLER - Come Home - When All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
STEVE SUFFET - The Blind Veteran - Low Rent District - 2008
JIM PAGE - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Collateral Damage - 2002
DAVID FERRARD - The War Carries On (Turn, Turn, Turn) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

Liberty, Justic & Freedom - for whom?:

DARK & STORMY - My Country Right or Wrong - Along the Way - 2008 Narragansett Songs
FREEBO - Before the Separation - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Stand Up - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom - Fertile Ground - 1999
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Pastures of Plenty - This Land: Woody Guthrie's America - 2011 Appleseed Prods.

Occupy Wall Street:

JACK HARDY - Empires - Noir - 2007 - Great Divide Records
TERRY KITCHEN - Ninety-nine - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire Prods.
RUSTIC RIDERS - Walk This Road - Among These Hills - 2011
BREAD & BONES - No Angels - Could Have Been a Dream - 2011 Riptone Records
MAKANA - We Are the Many - mp3 download

11/11/1989 FMLN offensive in El Salvador began:
DAVID ROVICS - Unknown Soldier - For the Moment - 2005
DEAN STEVENS - Salvadorenos para la Exportacion - Eyes of Wonder - 1993 Volcano Records
TOM NEILSON - Woman of Sumpul River - In A Public Place - 1991

Spook Handy at the Echo Lake, Leverett, MA 11/19/11:

SPOOK HANDY - Vote - Breakfast at Bill's - 2001 Akashic Records
SPOOK HANDY - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

OCCUPY WALL STREET:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Occupation Is On! - http://davelippman.com/Occupation.html
MARK DVORAK - I'm the 99 - mp3 - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Occupy Wall Street - mp3 - 2011
CHRIS NAUMAN - Occupy Wall Street - The Song - mp3 - 2011
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Occupy the USA - emmasrevolution.com - 2011

DEMONSTRATE:
RAY KORONA - Common Ground - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010
SI KAHN - Shoulders - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Music
CHARLIE KING - Vaguely Reminiscent of the 60's (The Story) - Vaguely Reminiscent - 1982
CHARLIE KING - Vaguely Reminiscent of the 60's (The Song ) - Vaguely Reminiscent - 1982
DAVID FERRARD - Visions of Our Youth - Broken Sky - 2008 Alter Road Records

DEVELOPMENT OR DESTRUCTION?
THE YAYAS - Price of Progress - Paper Boats - 2010
TERRY KITCHEN - Cherokee Run - Summer to Snowflakes - 2009 Urban Campfire Prods.
RYAN FITZSIMMONS - North Central Line - 2011
ERIC BALKEY - New Olde Town - Deadpan Alley - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
SPOOK HANDY - Mom & Pop's Small Towne Corner Hardware Store - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records

AGING & DYING:
KAREN BRANDOW - Coming Into My Years - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
HEATHER STYKA - Lucy & Sarah - Lifeboats for Atlantis - 2011
DAVID FERRARD - Till Death Do Us Part - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
LUCY KAPLANSKY - Today's the Day - Over the Hills - 2007 Red House Records
FREEBO - Standing Ovation - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music

ELECTION DAY:
DAVID ROVICS - Election - Beyond the Mall - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - IRV - Who Would Jesus Bomb - 2003
DAVE LIPPMAN - Electoral College Calypso - 2010 mp3

JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Land Is Your Land - This Land: Woody Guthrie's America - 2011 Appalseed Prods.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Playlist for 10/25/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Fruits from mother earth:
GATHERING TIME - Sweet Cider - Promo Sampler - 2011
TOM PACHECO - Big Jim's Honey - Luminol - 2012

Happy Halloween:
SI KAHN - Hear That Sound - Been A Long Time - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
DAVID ROTH - Halloween - Think Twice - 2004
TOM NEILSON - Halloween - Root Beer Makes Me Burp - 2004

Who is ruining the country?:

PETER ALSOP - The Bank - Disciples of Perfection - 2010 Moose School Prods.
DAVE LIPPMAN - Geithner Fit the Battle - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
TOM PACHECO - While We Looked the Other Way - Luminol - 2012
CAROL WILLIAMS - Look What They Did to Our Country - 2008
MATT BORRELLO - Easy to Sleep - Don't Turn Around - 2010
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Who Lies - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - I Aint Got No Home - This Land: Woody Guthrie's America - 2011 Appleseed

Women and work:
LONG TIME COURTING - Maggie Dean - Alternate Routes - 2011
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be an Engineer - Three Score and Ten - 2007 Appleseed
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - Union Maid - Images of Women, Vol. 2 - 2010 Windy Records

War/troops to leave Iraq at end of year:

GATHERING TIME - If It Would Oly Rain - Promo Sampler - 2011
DAVID FERRARD - Wildflowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
RUTH HILL - Jessica - The River Beneath Me - 2011
TOM NEILSON - Business As Usual - Biomess - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Basra - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

Wool&Grant at Echo Lake Friday, 10/28:

WOOL&GRANT - Nothing On Me - PROMO CD - 2011
WOOL&GRANT - Vakhegula Vakhegula - PROMO CD - 2011

Occupy!

DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Playlist for 10/18/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

10/22 National Day Against Police Brutality:

DAVID ROVICS - Miami - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Butcher for Hire - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
PAUL KAPLAN - Send in the Thugs - 2011 mp3
MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records

10/16/1859 John Brown, Abolitionist, raids armory in Harpers Ferry,VA:
DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Ten Thousand Miles Away - BMI 2009
MAGPIE - Goodbye to Old Ohio - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
MAGPIE - Captain - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records

Courage to Change:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
CECILIA ST. KING - Where Courage Will Lead - Your Word Is Magic - 2008 Chi'En Music
UBAKA HILL - Dream Shift - Beyond the Wind - 2006 Splevine Music Network
BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming - Single 2003
WOOL & GRANT - Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go) - 2011 Demo

Sharon Katz & the Peace Train with Abigail Kubeka at Echo Lake 10/21/11:
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train - Sala Ngoana - Imbizo - 2011 Appleseed Recordings
SHARON KATZ and ABIGAIL KUBEKA - Phone Interview
SHARON KATZ - Lakutxhon Ilanga - Double Take - 2011
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train w/ Abigail Kubeka - Walking Together - Double Take - 2011
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train w/ Abigail Kubeka - Shosholoza - Double Take - 2011

Places/Home:
DAVID FERRARD - My Father's House - Journey Man - 2011 Alter Road Records
GINA HOLSOPPLE - Looking for Home - From the Earth - 2010
DANIELLE MIRAGLIA - Fold My Hand and Home - Box of Troubles - 2011
RED JUNE - Home Is A Railroad - Remember Me Well - 2010
DOUGIE MacLEAN - Caledonia - The Essential Dougie MacLean - 2007 Dunkeld Records

Friday, October 14, 2011

Playlist for 10/11/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Unhappy Columbus Day:
JOSEPH FIRECROW - Spirit Lives - Face the Music - 2009
JOSEPH FIRECROW - Face the Music - Face the Music - 2009
HOPE MACHINE - Martyrs of the Native Nations - Big Green
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Big Mountain - Live At Club Passim - 2000
HOPE MACHINE - Sundancer - Big Green

California passes the Dream Act!
DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JOE JENCKS - Deportees - Rise As One - 2005
DEAN STEVENS - Let Justice Roll Down - At Last - 2008

Occupy Wall Street:
DAVID ROVICS - Occupy Wall Street/We're Gonna Stay Right Here - Youtube.com
LARRY KENNETH POTTS - Snake Oil - Close to Home - 2009
JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010
REBEL VOICES - One - A Piece of the Wall - 1998-99 Reveille Music
CECILIA ST. KING - Lift My Voice - Your Word is Magic - 2008 Chi'En Music
BYRD & STREET - Singin' 'Bout the Sunshine - Then & Now - 2011
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Perfect World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land - TRO-Ludlow Music BMI

Sharon Katz & the Peace Train with Abigail Kubeka at the Echo Lake, 10/21:
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train - Sophiatown - Lerato - 2005 Thando Rhythms
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train - Afrika Khayalami - Lerato - 2005 Thando Rhythms
SHARON KATZ & the Peace Train & ABIGAIL KUBEKA - Pata Pata - Double Take - 2011

Full Moon tonight/Autumn songs:
JACK HARDY - Moon Is Full - Bandolier - 2002
JACK HARDY - Autumn - Bandolier - 2002
MARA LEVINE with GATHERING TIME - Leaves That Are Green - Jewels & Harmony
TIM GRIMM - Autumn Garden - Farm Songs - 2009

HOLLY NEAR & Emma's Revolution - Listen to the Voices - 2009 Calico Tracks Music

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Playlist for 10/4/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Occupy Wall Street/End Corporate Greed:

DAVID ROVICS - Riot Dog - The Big Red Sessions - 2011
TOM NEILSON - Maximum Wage - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
JEFFERSON PEPPER - One Percent - American Evolution - 2008 American Fallout Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Only Eight - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
Granny Peace Brigade & the Raging Grannies - Stop in the Name of Health - 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-g7ZjlEES8
CHRIS FOSTER - Who Reaps the Profits? Who Pays the Price? - And They All Sang Rosselsongs - 2005 Fuse Records
JOHN PRINE - That's How Every Emprire Falls - Fair & Square EP - 2008
PATTI SMITH - People Have the Power - Outside Society - 2011 Sony Music
GREG ENGLE - Woody Guthrie Walks This Land - 2011 Single

For Palestinian Statehood:

TOM NEILSON - Death of Rachel Corrie - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Song the Songbird Sings - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

EPA does it again; more permits to Shell to despOIL the Arctic:

PAUL SACHS - Oil Town - Oil Town - 2011
STEVE CLARK - Oil Spill Song - 1989 youtube.com
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 Youtube.com

For the homeless veterans of war:
DAVID ROVICS - Too Proud to Beg - We Just Want The World - 1998
JIM PAGE - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Collateral Damage - 202
JOE JENCKS - Room Here for Another - Rise As One - 2005

War - What's it good for?
LINQ - Victim of the War - Caught in the Act Acoustic - 2011 Linq Songs
DAVID FERRARD - Wildflowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
ANNIE PATTERSON - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Mountain Side - 2011
ANNIE PATTERSON - Spoon River - Mountain Side - 2011
SHARON KATZ & the PEACE TRAIN - Sala Ngoana - Imbizo - 2011 Appleseed Recordings

SHARON KATZ & the PEACE TRAIN - Sanalwami - Imbizo - 2011 Appleseed Recordings

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Playlist for 9/27/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Corporate Greed/11th Day of the Wall Street Occupation:
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Organized Crime - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - Shut Them Down - Living In These Times - 2001
ANNE FEENEY - The Corporate Welfare Song - Jail for Justice - 2000
STEVE DEASY - I'm Working for Walmart - People Once Were Welcome Here - 2010
KEVIN ROBBINS - Corporate Anorexia - mp3 2010
THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw - 2007
JIM PAGE - Over My Dead Body - Ghost Bikes - 2010

Hard Times:

ROBERT BOBBY - Money's Getting Cheaper - A Brief History of Time - 2010
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Oh, America - Free to Fall - 2009
MIKE CULLISON - The Grapes of Wrath Are Ripe Again - Socail Change Sampler- 2007
JIM PAGE - Tent City - Ghost Bikes - 2010
PETER YARROW - There But For Fortune - What's That I Hear? - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Seize the Airwaves:
TOM NEILSON - That Was the Week - Spirit of Justice - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Evening News - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - What If You Knew - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Pirate Radio Song - Hang A Flag In the Window - 2002

To 350.org and the Environment:

KEVIN McCARTHY - We Can't Afford to Save the Planet - mp3
SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER - Point of No Return - One Earth - 209 Tremont Prods.
RAY KORONA - A Little Too Much Sunshine - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
ARTHUR LEE LAND - Happy Cow - Happy Cow - 2010 Perfect Groove Reocrds

Rest in Peace, Troy Davis:
GRANT PEOPLES - Lethal Injection Blues - Okra & Ecclesiastes - 2011 Gatorbone Records
DAN CHAUVIN - Non-Probationary Blues - Better Places - 2007 Cherry Grove Music
REBEL VOICES - In Contempt - A Piece of the Wall - 1998-99 Reveille Music
REBEL VOICES - If You Can See Me - A Piece of the Wall - 1998-99 Reveille Music
ANNIE PATTERSON - Gone Gonna Rise Again - Mountain Side - 2011

Goodbye, Summer:
MARE WAKEFIELD - Little Blue Flowers & Butterflies - Meant To Be - 2011 Maresie Music

ANNIE PATTERSON - Oh Had I a Golden Thread - Mountain Side - 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Playlist for 9/20/11

Who's to Blame for the mess we're in?
DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - mp3 - 2011
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - New Hard Time Blues - New Hard Time Blues - 2011
FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
BEV BARNETT & GREG NEWLON -What Is Enough - Love Can Change the World - 2011 TrueWind Music
MARY McADAMS - Greed - 2009
RAY KORONA - Rotten to the Root - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Filthy Rotten System - 2010 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Military Policy Ended Today at 12:01am!
CHARLIE KING - Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Inside Out - 1995 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If Loving You Were a Dangerous Thing - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - This Love - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Women
LYDIA ADAMS DAVIS - Shake 'n Bake - Gift of Story - 1996
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Women Walking Wearing Wings - mp3
GINA HOLSOPPLE - I'm a Witch - From the Earth - 2010
KRISTIN LEMS - The Witch's Song - Equality Road (We Will Never Give Up) - 2007

Environment
DAVID ROVICS - Death of David Chain - We Just Want the World - 1998
DAVE LIPPMAN - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Rainbow Race - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings

Palestinian Statehood

DAVID ROVICS - Palestine - Return - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Waiting for the Fall - BMI
PAUL KAPLAN - We Believe in Peace - Demo
GATHERING TIME - Light One Candle - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008

Troy Davis to be executed tomorrow - end the death penalty

JOHN FLYNN - Full Circle - Dragon - 2003 MettaFour Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
TOM NEILSON -Mumia - Dancin' Shoes - 1997
JIM PAGE - Song for Leonard Peltier - Ghost Bikes - 2010

It's up to us
DAVE LIPPMAN - We Are the Ones - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
ELLEN BUKSTEL & NICK ANNIS - By My Silence - Single 2008

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Playlist for 9/13/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

9/11/1973 Chile:

DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Troubador - 2010
ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara - Amigo - 1976 Rising Son Records
VICTOR JARA - Canto Libre - Canto Libre - 1993 Monitor Records

9/11/2001 New York:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Short Shift at Ground Zero - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
PAT LAMANNA - Two Towers - Full Circle - 2009
SPOOK HANDY - Death Came Anyway - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records
PAUL KAPLAN - After the Fire - Demo - 2002
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - Hole in the Ground - 2002 mp3
JOHN HIATT - When New York Had Her Heart Broke - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns - 2011 New West Records
LUCY KAPLANSKY - Land of the Living - The Red Thread- 2006 Red House Records
KATHY MOSER - Windows on the World - mp3

The Aftermath-War:
HEALLY & JURAVICH - Arabian Nights - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
LEON ROSSELSON - General Lockjaw Briefs the Troops As Reported by a Skeptical Soldier - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Home - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
SEIZE THE DAY - United States - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
EMMA'S REVILUTION - Who Lies - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID FERRARD - The War Carries On (Turn, Turn, Turn) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

The Aftermath-Loss of Civil Liberties:
BEN GROSSCUP - Health of the State - The Shaking of the Ground - Demo CD
PRINCE MYSHKINS - Nail Clippers - Total Myshkin Awareness - Rick Burkhardt & Andy Gricevich
PRINCE MYSHKINS - The List - Total Myshkin Awareness - Rick Burkhardt & Andy Gricevich
SARA THOMSEN - Freedom Song - By Breath - 2003

JOHN FLYNN - Dragon - Dragon - 2003 MettaFour Records

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Playlist for 9/6/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Labor Day Songs:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Sweatshops - Singing CIA Agent George Shrub - 2004
CHARLIE KING - Bring Back the Eight Hour Day - Inside Out - 1995 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid - Union Maid - 1994 Anne Feeney
ANNE FEENEY - Bread & Roses - Union Maid - 1994 Anne Feeney
JOE JENCKS - War on the Workers - Rise As One - 2005 Joe Jencks
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There - 2002 Beverly Grant

SI KAHN - Aragon Mill - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
DAVID FERRARD - Peg and Awl - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records
JANET BATES - The Little Spinner - The Little Spinner - 2009 Janet Bates
JAMES TAYLOR - Millworker - Flag - 1979 Sony Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - No Sweat - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

For the victims of 911:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JAMIE ANDERSON - Faith - A Promise of Light - Preview CD
TOM PAXTON - The Bravest - Looking for the Moon - 2003 Appleseed Recordings
KITTY DONOHOE - There Are No Words - Northern Border - 2008 Roheen Records
STEVE SUFFET - Marlyn Garcia - Now the Wheel Has Turned - 2005
ANNIE DINERMAN - Talking with Absent Friends - Broken Cookies - 2009
CRABTREE & MILLS - Only Love - Freedom - 2008 Free & Easy Music

John Flynn at the Echo Lake on 9/17/11:

JOHN FLYNN - America's Waiting - America's Waiting - 2009
JOHN FLYNN - The Passunder - America's Waiting - 2009
JOHN FLYNN - Go Wake A Heart - America's Waiting - 2009


Change the system:

JON McAULIFFE - Tear Down Every Wall - In This Present Form - 2009
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Turn Your Guns - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board - 2007 Appleseed

WOOL & GRANT - Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go Go) - Demo 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Playlist for 8/30/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Storm Metaphors:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS & MAGPIE - Let It Rain - Guide My Feet - 1999 Appleseed Recordings
CLAUDIA NYGAARD - Let the Storm Roll In - Let the Storm Roll In - 2011 Bet the Ranch Records
TIM GRIMM - Raining - Coyote's Dream - 2003
HEALY & JURAVICH - Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

Hurricane Katrina-6 years later:
DAVID ROVICS - New Orleans - Troubador - 2010
RADIO FREE EARTH - Crying Tears for New Orleans - 2007
EVAN GREER - Ballad of Hurricaine Katrina - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Where Are You Now? - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MATT TURK - City of New Orleans - American Preservation - 2010 Big Kid Records

Union Battles:
DAVID ROVICS - Battle of Blair Mountain -Songs for Mahmud - 2004
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - New Wood - 1994 Rounder Records
DAVID FERRARD - SO9 Monktonhall - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Pennsylvania Miner - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Unionize!:
JOE JENKS - Which Side Are You On - Rise As One - 2005
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2000
SI KAHN - We Will Hold the Line - From the musical, Silver Spoon - 2001 Joe Hill Music
JOE JENKS - We Won - Rise As One - 2005

Poverty:
MATT TURK - The Turning Away - American Preservation - 2010 Big Kid Records
BEV GRANT - America's Dirty Little Secret - Cheeky Woman - 2006
JOE JENCKS - Room Here for Another - Rise As One - 2005
ELISE WITT - The Homeless Olympics - Mezzanine - 1993 EMWorld Records

Abuse:
RUTH HILL - Valley of Time - The River Beneath Me - 2011 Sugar Brook Music
GENE MORRISON - Haunted Woman - Looking Back - 2010
SARAH PIRTLE - A Million Flowers - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Playlist for 8/23/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

For Sacco & Vanzetti - executed 8/23/1927:
CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
JOHN FLYNN - Full Circle - Dragon - 2003 Mettafour Records
SARAH UNDERHILL - From the Prison - Strange Sweethearts - 2010
REBEL VOICES - In Contempt - A Piece of the Wall - 1998-99 Reveille Music


Peace - for Libya:

APARNA LAKSHMI - Rose's Song - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011
TOM PAXTON - How Beautiful Upon the Mountain - Comedians & Angels - 2008 Appleseed Recordings
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Finlandia - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If You Want Peace - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS & MAGPIE - Paz y Libertad - Guide My Feet - 1999 Appleseed Recordings


A Country in Trouble:
APARNA LAKSHMI - Small Town America - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
JOHN FLYNN - Dragon - Dragon - 2003 Mettafour Records
TOM WAITS - Cold Water - Mule Variations - 1999 Anti, Inc.
SPOOK HANDY - Mom & Pop's Small Towne Corner Hardware Store - Whatcha Gonna Do? 2007 Akashic Records


Labor songs for the Verizon Strikers:
JOE JENCKS - The Great Fast Food Strike - Rise As One - 2005
SI KAHN - Jobs with Justice - 1989 Flying Fish Records
REBEL VOICES - Borderlines - A Piece of the Wall - 1998-99 Reveille Music
TOM JURAVICH - Power in a Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
JOE JENCKS - Joe Hill - Links in a Chain - 2009

For the Farmers:
SI KAHN - On this Old Farm - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009 Vault Records
TIM GRIMM - The People's Highway - Farm Songs - 2009 Vault Records
LOUISE MOSRIE - Tennessee - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music

What to Do?:

BARBARA GARRIEL - One Voice - Ample Patience - 2008
AMY MARTIN - Consequences - Bind Me to Free - 2006

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Playlist for 8/16/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006
TERRY KITCHEN - Listening to Summer - Summer to Snowflakes - 2009 Urban Campfire Prods.

Greed:

ELISE WITT - Set Us Free - Valise - 2009
KEVIN ROBINS - Corporate Anorexia - 2010 (on youtube.com)
JASON & THE SCORCHERS - Mother of Greed - Halcyon Times - 2010
JEFFERSON PEPPER - One Percent - American Evolution - 2008 American Fallout Records
ELISE WITT - Blessed Nation - Valise - 2009

Banking Crimes:
HANK WOJI - The Ballad of Bernie - There Was a Time - 2010
DAVE LIPPMAN - Geithner Fit the Battle - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
TOM NEILSON - Betting on Terror - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003

Religion/Jesus Christ - Response to The Response:
HANK WOJI - Jesus Christ - There Was a Time - 2010
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
BROTHER LOU - Hey Jesus - As Good As You Want - 2008 Lou Dominjuez
DAVID CAMPBELL - Stand Up for Judas - And They All Sang Rosselsongs - 2005 Fuse Records

Mountain Top Removal/Coal:
DAVID ROVICS - Hills of Tennessee - Waiting for the Fall -
TOM NEILSON - Babies in these Mountains - Biomess - 2010
DAVE LIPPMAN - Ballad of BP & the Massey Massacre - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - East Tennessee - Ten Thousand Miles Away - BMI
ANNIE WENZ - Life in Harlan - Ride the Sky - 2010 Island Gypsy
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010

Oil Spills:
DAVID ROVICS - Cordova - 10 New Songs - 2010
STEVE FORBERT - The Oil Song - 2010

JUD CASWELL - Blackberry Time - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Playlist for 8/2/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Urban Sprawl:
JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007
DAVID ROVICS - Song for the Earth Liberation Front - Hang a Flag in the Window - 2002
TERRY KITCHEN - Cherokee Run - Summer to Snowflakes - 2009 Urban Campfire Prod.
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003

Nuclear Weapons:
DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003
GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come & Stand - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004
JIM PAGE - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette - The Best of Broadside - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - The Best of Broadside - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
SARA THOMSEN - Keepin' the Peace - By Breath - 2003

War:
JIM PAGE - Her Eyes - Collateral Damage - 2002
BARB RYMAN - Soldier's Daughter - Catch the Sunset - 2011
CHRISTOPHER BROWN - One Ice Cube - Characterist - 2011 Timbuktunes
MARY COURTNEY - One Tin Soldier - Sceil Eile - 2005 Completely Stone Mad Music
CHUCK BRODSKY - Lili's Braids - Subtotal Eclipse - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall - BMI

The American Way:

GRANT PEEPLES - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Okra & Ecclesiastes - 2011
ROY ZIMMERMAN - America - Faulty Intelligence - 2006
DAVE LIPPMAN - Your Car Is Disgusting - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010

Coal Mining:
KYLE CAREY - Monongah - Monongah - 2011
JENI & Billy - Land of the Pharoahs - Jewell Ridge Coal - 2008 Jewell Ridge Records
MICHELLE DALZIEL - The Mine - Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records

Hard Times:
GILLIAN WELCH - Hard Times - The Harrow & the Harvest - 2011 Acony Records
MAGPIE - Hard Times - Working My Life Away - 1982 Collector Records

Thursday, July 28, 2011

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Summer Songs:

ARLON BENNETT - Summer's Voice - Summer's Voice - 2007 Red Sea Records
LUCY KAPLANSKY - Swimming Song - Over the Hills - 2007 Red House Records

Corporate Empire:
DAVE LIPPMAN/Wild Bill Bailout - Shoot Down the Drones - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
BARB RYMAN - Take - Catch the Sunset - 2011
JACKIE MORRIS - House of Cards - Tell Me a Story - 2011
JIM PAGE - Over My Dead Body - Collateral Damage - 2002
DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - Ten New Songs 2011

Politics:

JAMES LEE STANLEY - Everybody Knows - Domino Harvest - 1997
DAVE LIPPMAN/Wild Bill Bailout - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Tea - youtube - 2010
CHRISTOPHER BROWN - UFO Song - Characterist - 2011 Timbuktunes
GINA HOLSOPPLE - Looking for Home - From the Earth - 2010

Leon Rosselson with Charlie King & Karen Brandow Greenfield Unity Church 8/3/11:
LEON ROSSELSON - The World Turned Upside Down - www.youtube.com

Resistance:
MARY COURTNEY - Mandela - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music
DAVID ROVICS - Trading with the Enemy - Living In These Times - 2001
JACKIE MORRIS - Our Town Said No - Tell Me a Story - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Bradley Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011


Congratulations to newlyweds in NY state:
BARB RYMAN - Fond of Being Gay - Catch the Sunset - 2011
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Defenders of Marriage - Faulty Intelligence - 2006
PAT HUMPHRIES - People Love - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

Prison:
SARAH UNDERHILL - From the Prison - Strange Sweethearts - 2010
MARY COURTNEY - 66 Days - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music

Change:

DISAPPEAR FEAR - Changes - Get Your Phil - 2011
JAMES LEE STANLEY - Change - The eternal Contradiction - 2007
ARLON BENNETT - Be the Change - Summer's Voice - 2007 Red Sea Records

GINA HOLSOPPLE - Thank You - From the Earth - 2010

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Playlist for 7/19/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Happy Birthday, Woody Guthrie - 7/14/1912:
WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land - TRO-Ludlow Music BMI
ARLO GUTHRIE w/ the Dillards - So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh - Thirty-two Cents - 2008
ETHAN MILLER - Harriet Tubman's Ballad - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet

HILLEL ARNOLD - Dance Around My Atom Fire - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet
STEVE SUFFET - Good Old Union Feeling - Low Rent District - 2008
JOE JENCKS - Deportees - Rise As One - 2005

Happy Birthday, Cindy Sheehan - 7/10/1957:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Cindy Sheehan - Haliburton Boardroom Massacre - 2005
SARAH PIRTLE - Home for Dinner - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela - 7/18/1911:
SHARON KATZ - Afrika Khayalami -Lerato - 2005 Thando Rhythm Records
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO - Ngingenwe Emoyeni - Africa Never Stand Still - 1994 Ellipsis Arts

To the Audacity of Hope and Palestine:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for the Mavi Marmara - Troubador, People's History in Song - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - They're Building a Wall - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Occupation - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography 101 - 2011

Bullies:

DENNIS CARAHER - Radio Boy - Radio Boy - 2006
DAVID ROTH - Elijah - Think Twice - 2004
ANNE FEENEY - Courage (Diane) - Have You Been to Jail for Justice - 2000
LINQ - Oh, Bully - Single - 2010 Linq Songs

Empire:

BEN GROSSCUP - Health of the State - The Shaking of the Ground - 2005
MAGPIE - Cops of the World - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records
RANDY WILLIAMS - Lebanon - One Night in Louisiana - 2007

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Happy Birthday,Woody:
WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land - TRO-Ludlow Music BMI
ARLO GUTHRIE w/ the Dillards - So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh - Thirty-two Cents - 2008
ETHAN MILLER - Harriet Tubman's Ballad - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet

HILLEL ARNOLD - Dance Around My Atom Fire - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet
STEVE SUFFET - Good Old Union Feeling - Low Rent District - 2008
JOE JENCKS - Deportees - Rise As One - 2005

Happy Birthday, Cindy Sheehan:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for Cindy Sheehan - Haliburton Boardroom Massacre - 2005
SARAH PIRTLE - Home for Dinner - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela:
SHARON KATZ - Afrika Khayalami -Lerato - 2005 Thando Rhythm Records
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO - Ngingenwe Emoyeni - Africa Never Stand Still - 1994 Ellipsis Arts

To the Audacity of Hope Passengers:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for the Mavi Marmara - Troubador, People's History in Song - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - They're Building a Wall - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Occupation - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography 101 - 2011

Bullies:
DENNIS CARAHER - Radio Boy - Radio Boy - 2006
DAVID ROTH - Elijah - Think Twice - 2004
ANNE FEENEY - Courage (Diane) - Have You Been to Jail for Justice - 2000
LINQ - Oh, Bully - Single - 2010 Linq Songs

Empire:
BEN GROSSCUP - Health of the State - The Shaking of the Ground - 2005
MAGPIE - Cops of the World - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records
RANDY WILLIAMS - Lebanon - One Night in Louisiana - 2007

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Playlist for 7/5/11

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY, AMERICA:
WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land - TRO Ludlow Music BMI
ARLO GUTHRIE with The Dillards - Pastures of Plenty - 2008 Rising Son Records
JOHN FLYNN - Go Wake A Heart and America's Waiting - Departures - 2009
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings
MAGPIE - Power & the Glory - What's That I Hear? - 1998 Sliced Bread Records

Land of Immigrants:

SI KAHN - When the Land and They Were Young - Thanksgiving - 2007 - Strictly Country Records
CLAUDIA NYGAARD - Big Country - Let the Storm Roll In - 2011 Bet the Ranch Records
BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006
SI KAHN - Lady of the Harbor - I'll Be There - 1989 Flying Fish Records
ANNE FEENEY - Take Them Down - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

American Culture, OMG:
PETER SIEGEL - My Culture - Move the Mob - 2001
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Little Boxes - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
TOM PACHECO - What Happened to the America I Know - The Best of Tom Pacheco, Vol. 1 - 2007
CHRIS CHANDLER & ANNE FEENEY - The United States of Generica - Flying Poetry Circus
PAT HUMPHRIES - Buy This American Car - Same Rain - 1992 Moving Forward Music
SI KAHN - Abe Lincoln Walks Tonight - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Oh, America - Free to Fall - 2009

A Broken Country:
STEVE WARNER - Brokenville - Train of Life - 2010 Talking Horse Music
JIM PAGE - Tent City - Ghost Bikes - 2010
ERIC BALKEY - Livin' in Lesserville - While the Paint Dries - 2004 Hudson Harding Music
ANNE HILLS - My America - Make Levees Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music

Help Build A Better America:

ANNE FEENEY - Rebuild America-Keep Hope Alive! - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Our Problems Stem from our Acceptance of this Filthy Rotten System - The Distance Remaining 2010 - Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
HEALY & JURAVICH - Mean Things Happening in this Land - Tangled in our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
JIM PAGE - I Want a New America - Ghost Bikes - 2010
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Fertile Ground - 1999

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - What's That I Hear? - What's That I Hear? - 1998 Sliced Bread Records

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Playlist for 6/28/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - 2006

Global Warming and bad energy:

JACKIE MORRIS - Money to Burn - Money to Burn - 2008
MIKE & ALEKSI GLICK - Black Gold - Generations - 2010
BROTHER SUN (Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway & Pat Wictor) - Well, Well, Well - 2011
TOM NEILSON - Greenland's Meltin to the Sea - Another Pacifist Under Surveillance - 2007
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - We Work the Black Seam - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
DAVID ROVICS - Here At the End of the World - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

Toxic nuclear power:

LAURA SIMON - Nuclear Blues - The Future's in Our Hands - 2004
The PRINCES OF SERENDIP - Plutonium POPS - Jaiya Records -
TOM NEILSON - Hot Frogs on the Loose - Dancin' Shoes 1997
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS -Solar Carol - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings

Beauty of the Earth:
The PRINCES OF SERENDIP - To a Barred Owl - Jaiya Records -
PUTNAM SMITH - The Birds Would Understand - We Could Be Beekeepers - 2011
AUDREY AULD - Tree - Come Find Me - 2001
SARA THOMSEN - Oh, You Dance - Fertile Ground - 1999

Just Music:
PUTNAM SMITH - I Dream of Apple Orchards - We Could Be Beekeepers - 2011
BATTLEFIELD BAND - Raigmore/Long Run/The Clansmen Mourning - Line Up -
FRANCIS DOUGHTY - Mole's Moan - Under the Sky - 2001
ETHAN HAZZARD-WATKINS - Church Hollow - In the Window - 2005

Refugees:

SHARON KLEIN - Night of Broken Glass - The Way Back Home - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROVICS - I Wanna Go Home - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

What to do:
FRED ARCOLEO - Under Our Eyes - Seeds - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Stand Up - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Remisniscent Sounds
BROTHER SUN (Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway & Pat Wictor) - Shine - 2011
BROTHER SUN (Joe Jencks, Greg Greenway & Pat Wictor) - What Must Be Done - 2011
UBAKA HILL - Dream Shift - Beyond the Wind - 2006 Splevine Music Network

SHARON KLEIN - The Way Back Home - The Way Back Home - 2009

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Playlist for 6/14/11

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman -2006

For the Environment:
UBAKA HILL - Ear to the Ground - Beyond the Wind - 2006 Splevine Music Network
MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
FRED ARCOLEO - Poison - Seeds - 2010
DAVE LIPPMAN - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - Wild Bill Bailout - 2010
SUE & DWIGHT - Mercury Rising - Little Child Big World - 2008

STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - The Last Man Speaks - Raven Speaks -2009
MAGPIE - Killing Rain - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spil Song - 2010 youtube.com
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - 2010 youtube.com
STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - Raven Speaks - Raven Speaks -2009

MAGPIE - Song of the Whales - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - This World - Rainy Day - Riot Folk
LAURA SIMON - The Future Is in Our Hands - The Future Is in Our Hands - 2004
MAGPIE - Living Planet - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records
SARA THOMSEN - Turning of the World - By Breath - 2003

For those living in these hard times:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Geithner Fit the Battle - Wild Bill Bailout - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Moving Day/We Shall Not Be Moved - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
TOM NEILSON - Maximum Wage - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
STEVE SUFFET - Troubled Waters Rising - I've Been Up on the Mountain -2007
STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - The Edge of Town - Raven Speaks -2009

DANA ROBINSON - What Would Woody Do? - 2008 Demo
LAURA SIMON - Homeless Child - The Future Is in Our Hands - 2004
JENI & BILLY - If I Ever Get $10 - Longing for Heaven - 2010 Jewell Ridge Records
MIKE & ALEKSI GLICK - Burnin' - Generations - 2011
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Hearts at Home - Hearts at Home - 2005

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

BEV GRANT - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006 Bev Grant

Small Farm Lament:
GENE MORRISON - Crying in the Night - Looking Back - 2010
TIM GRIMM - So It Goes - Farm Songs - 2009
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
ETHAN MILLER - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Farming and Summer's Bounty:
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009
SARAH UNDERHILL - Berries in the Hedge - Chimaera - 2004
SARAH PIRTLE - A Seed Knows What to Do - Pocketful of Wonder - 2009
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Little Red Hen - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

Empires Fall - Eventually:
PRINCE MYSHKINS - Ministry of Oil - Total Myshkin Awareness
DAVE LIPPMAN - Pity the Nation/First They Came/I Don't Fight for Conquerors - Wild Bill Bailout - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Glory and Fame - We Just Want The World - 1998

SI KAHN Interview for Silver Spoon:
Songs from the Musical: Silver Spoon - 2011 Joe Hill Music
SI KAHN - La Libertad
SI KAHN - Across the Wide East River
SI KAHN - Brooklyn Takes Me Home
SI KAHN - We Will Hold the Line

Empire cont'd:
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Homeland Uber Alles - Sparks & Tears - 2003 Vaguely Rem. Sounds
JOHN PRINE - That's How Every Empire Falls - Fair & Square EP - 2008

Anniversary of Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - 6/5/1967:
DAVID ROVICS - Occupation - Return - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Song the Songbird Sings - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Playlist for 5/31/11 - Memorial Day Show

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006

The following songs are from Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
GEORGE MANN - Streams of Gold
JOHN GORKA - Writing in the Margins
MAGPIE - Michael
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Came Marching Home
HOLLY NEAR - I Am Willing
ERIC SCHWARTZ - Welcome Back to the USA
TOM PAXTON - The Unknown
EMILY NYMAN - Give Me A Dream
UTAH PHILLIPS - Yellow Ribbon
ARLON BENNETT - Bandana Man
GEORGE MANN - Welcome Home

The following songs are from Not In Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
ELIZA GILKYSON - Man Of God
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - codePINK
LEON ROSSELSON - General Lockjaw Briefs the Troops As Reported BY A Sceptical Soldier
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia
RORY McLEOD - No More Blood for Oil
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured
ROY BAILEY & MARTIN SIMPSON - Collateral Damage
DAVID ROVICS - Waiting for the Fall
JEZ LOWE - Dover, Delaware
JIM PAGE - When Johnny Comes Marching Home
UNITED STATES - Seize the Day

BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
COLLEEN KATTAU - Combat Paper - mp3
JOHN FLYNN - Semper Fi - America's Waiting - 2009
BEN BEDFORD - Fisher's Hill - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Playlist for 5/24/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006

Religion and the Rapture:
RAGING GRANNIES (Victoria, BC) - The Rapture - Not Your Grandmother's Sing-Along - 3006
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Creation Science - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Our Father - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID ROVICS - In the Name of God - Ten Thousand Miles Away - BMI
AMY MARTIN - Amen - Bind Me to Free - 2006
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
PETER MAYER - The Garden - Heaven Below - 2010

Happy 70th Birthday, Bob:
BOB DYLAN: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Host: Rita Houston - 2010 Sony Music - Hour show

New Album:
DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
DAVID FERRARD - Wildflowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
DAVID FERRARD - The War Carries On (Turn, Turn, Turn) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

Dictatorship Installed in Cuba and Guantanamo Bay Ceded to US 5/22/1903:
DAVID ROVICS - Guantanamo Bay - For The Moment - 2005
KEVIN SO - Letter from Guantanamo - Best Foot Forward - 2009 WingBone Records
SILVIO RODRIGUEZ - Sueno con Serpientes - www.youtube.com

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Playlist for 5/17/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006

For the Mississippi River Valley:
TOM PACHECO - Big Muddy River - The Best of Tom Pacheco, Vol. II - 2011
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Carry On - Through a Frozen Midnight Sky - 2009
SARAH PIRTLE - The Flood - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music
BEN GROSSCUP & DAN INGLIS - Higher Ground - The Shaking of the Ground - 2005

War:
JIM PAGE - My American Name - Collateral Damage - 2002 Whid-Isle Music
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Turn Your Guns the Other Way - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
ROBBY HECHT - Along the Way - Late Last Night - 2008
STEVE QUELET - Foxhole - 2002
JOE JENCKS - We Cry Out - What Kind of Brother - 2000

For the Palestinians on the anniversary of the Naqba:
DAVID ROVICS - Occupation - Return - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - In One World - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002
DAVID ROVICS - I Want to Go Home - Songs for Mahmud - 2004 Ever Reviled Records
JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002 Whid-Isle Music

Immigrants:
MAGPIE - Same Boat Now - In This World - 2008 Sliced Bread Records
SI KAHN - Lady of the Harbor - I'll Be There - 1989 Flying Fish Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS & MAGPIE - The Wind Won't Know Me - Guide My Feet - 1999 Appleseed Recordings
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
GATHERING TIME - Train Coming - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008

Gay Marriage legalized in Massachusetts on 5/17/2004:
DAVID ROVICS - I Know A Man - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If Loving You Were A Dangerous Thing - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - This Love - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SARA THOMSEN - Hearts & Hands - Fertile Ground - 1999

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS & MAGPIE - Give Light - Guide My Feet - 1999 Appleseed Recordings
BUSKIN & BATTEAU - Choose Joy - Red Shoes & Golden Hearts - 2009 Nouveau Retro Media

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Playlist for 5/10/11

Signature Song:
BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006

War on Terror:
DAVID ROVICS - Osama Bin Laden is Dead - 2011 youtube.com
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Silence and Lies - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MARK ERELLI - The Only Way - Not In Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - I Wonder Why - Higher Ground - 2008
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
TOM NEILSON - Betting On Terror - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Fertile Ground - 1999


Pollution:
MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - 2011 Youtube.com
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - 2011 Youtube.com
RAY KORONA BAND - Water - the Song - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010

Phone Interview with David Ferrard for upcoming show at Echo Lake Coffeehouse, Leverett, MA
DAVID FERRARD - Broken Sky - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - The Slave's Lament - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records

Freedom:
RAY KORONA BAND - The Cost of Freedom - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The Freedom Song - Higher Ground - 2008
ELLEN BUKSTEL & NICK ANNIS - By My Silence - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

History in Song:
DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
John Brown b.5/9/1800 militant abolitionist inTorrington, CT
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
5/12/1981 - Irish Republican prisoner Francis Hughes dies on his 59th day on hunger strike.

VOICES - Step By Step - Step By Step - 1996

Friday, May 6, 2011

Playlist for 4/3/11

BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006

I Want a New America:
COCO & Lafe - The Dreaming Bean - Big Bang! -2011 Skyhunter Music
ANNE HILLS - My America - Make Levees, Vol 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
JOHN FLYNN - America's Waiting - America's Waiting -2009
SI KAHN - Hard Times - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
JIM PAGE - I Want a New America - Ghost Bikes - 2010

For the Environment:

TERRY KITCHEN - That's How It Used to Be - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire Prods.
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - 2010 youtube.com
HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records
JOE JENCKS - Tikun Olam - The Candle & the Flame - 2007

End the War on the World:

TOM NEILSON - Nothing Like a War - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
TOM NEILSON - No Business Like War Business - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - The War Is Over - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts At Home - 2005
PAUL KAPLAN - Just Another War - The Folk Process - 3008 Old Coat Music

Peace:
SARA THOMSEN - KEEPIN' THE Peace - Big Breath - 2003
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If You Want Peace - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MINDY SIMMONS - Peace Throughout the Land - One World/Our World - 2009

David Ferrard at the Echo Lake May 14:
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - Visions of Our Youth - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - This Heart - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records

May Day/Labor Day:
SI KAHN - Momma Was a Union Woman - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim -2000
ANNE FEENEY - We Fought Back - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back - 2008
TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MAGPIE - Mrs. MacDonald's Lament - Working My Life Away - 1982 Collector Records
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS - Rockin' Solidarity Forever - The Power of Song - Bev Grant

MAGPIE - Give Light - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Playlist for 4/26/11

BEV GRANT - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

More for Earth Day:
LES SAMPOU - Nature's Song - Sweet Perfume
DEAN STEVENS - Dias de Amar - Eyes of Wonder - 1993
PETER MAYER - All the World Is One - Heaven Below - 2010
MAGPIE - The Rainforest Song - Living Planet - 1989
SARAH SAMPLE - Pull the Plug - Never Close Enough - 2007 Ramona Records

The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Feminism and Women's Rights:
KRISTIN LEMS - We Will Never Give Up
THE HUMAN CONDITION/BEVERLY GRANT - Inez
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be An Engineer
CHRIS GAYLORD - Don't Talk to Strangers
SAMMY WALKER - Catcher in the Rye
ELAINE WHITE - The Time Will Come

Economic Injustice:

DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - mp3 - 2011
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts - Fools No More - 2006
DAVE LIPPMAN - Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs - I Hate Walmart -1998
TOM NEILSON - Business As Usual - Biomess - 2010
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Don't Pay Taxes - Sparks and Tears - 2003
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Ddembe -Junior Number 13 - 2006

The Empire - South of the border:
ETHAN MILLER & Kate Boverman - Recipe for Cocaine - mp3 - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick Battalion - Troubador-People's History in Song - 2010

DAVID FERRARD - Hard Times Come Again No More - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Playlist for 4/19/11

For Earth Day:
ANNIE DINERMAN - One Planet at a Time -Broken Cookies - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MAGPIE - We Belong to the Earth - In This World - 2008

The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
JEFF AMPOLSK - Brown Water and Blood
THOM PARROTT - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy
LUCINDA WILLIAMS - LaFayette
CHARLIE BROWN - The Ballad of Earl Durand
ERNIE MARRS - Plastic Jesus
JIM COLLIER/FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - Burn, Baby Burn
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - The Cities Are Burning
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK -Nothing But His Blood
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - You're Just a Laughing Fool
WENDY SMITH - Time Is Running Out
SIS CUNNINGHAM - But If I Ask Them
SAMMY WALKER - Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy
PHIL OCHS - Changes
SAMMY WALKER/PHIL OCHS - Bound for Glory
ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006
SARA THOMSEN - Oh, You Dance - Fertile Ground - 1999

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Playlist for 4/12/11

He's still there, despite US backed coup:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Hugo Chavez - For the Moment - 2005

From the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Vietnam:
THOM PARROTT - Pinkville Helicopter
MATTHEW JONES & ELAINE LARON - Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
PHIL OCHS - We Seek No Wider War
PETE SEEGER - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
PAUL KAPLAN - Vietnam

COURT DORSEY - Interview for "Ambush of T Street"

Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake 4/16/11:

BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One, The Cherry Mine and Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

From the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Social Injustice:
THOM PARROTT - Hole in the Ground
WES HOUSTON - To Be A Killer
PETE SEEGER - New York J-D Blues
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Little Boxes
MIKE MULLIUS - Not Enough to Live On But a Little Too Much to Die
MALVINA REYNOLDS - The Faucet Are Dripping
HAPPY TRAUM & GIL TURNER - Bizzness Ain't Dead
PETE SEEGER - Business
EWAN MacCOLL - Legal-Illegal

GREENFIELD HARMONY - One Voice - Live Concert 12/18/10

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Playlist for 4/5/11

In Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr:
MATTHEW JONES - Long Kesh -Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records
FRICTION FARM - Birmingham - Every Mile Is A Memory - 2010 Aidan Quinn & Christine Stay
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Are Gone - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change

Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake, Leverett, MA April 16:
BEN BEDFORD - Goodbye, Jack - Lincoln's Man - 2008 Hopeful Sky Records
BEN BEDFORD - Lincoln's Man
BEN BEDFORD - Migrant Mother

The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
MIKE MILLIUS - The Ballad of Martin Luther King
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS: LEN CHANDLER & TOM PAXTON - Carry It On
RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday
DANNY VALDEZ & AUGUSTIN LIRA - The Migrant's Song
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO: LUIS VALDEZ, Dir.
JUDY & DANNY ROSE-REDWOOD - La Lucha Continuara
RAIMON - Contra la Por
PETE SEEGER - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
MATT McGINN - If It Wasn't for the Union
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Pat Sky & David Cohen - More Good Men Going Down
SIS CUNNINGHAM - Sundown
SIS CUNNINGHAM - My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)
DEBORAH SILVERSTEIN & the New Harmony Sisterhood Band - Draglines
PETE SEEGER - My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Playlist for 3/29/11

100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory:
BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones On the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009
SI KAHN - Washington Square - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - We Were There! - 2002

The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings:
PETE SEEGER - The Willing Conscript
THE FUGS - Kill for Peace
ERIC ANDERSEN & PHIL OCHS - Plains of Nebrasky-O
GIL TURNER - Benny Kid Paret
TOM PAXTON - What Did You Learn in School Today?
PIL OCHS - Changin' Hands
BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pat Sky - Welcome, Welcome, Emigrante
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Shady Acres
WILL McLEAN & PAUL CHAMPION - Lord, Hold Back the Waters
BLIND BOY GRUNT (Bob Dylan) - The Ballad of Donald White
SAMMY WALKER & SIS CUNNINGHAM - Song for Patty
RICHARD BLACK - A Very Close Friend of Mine
ERIC ANDERSEN - Long Time Troubled Road
PETE SEEGER - Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam
THE FREEDOM SINGERS - We'll Never Turn Back
PHIL OCHS - Freedom Riders
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS/LEN CHANDLER - Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon)
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Baby, I've Been Thinking
LEN CHANDLER/Bernice Johnson Reagon - I'm Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Playlist for 3/22/11

Today's show is from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings' The Best of Broadside, 1962 - 1988

The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs - Links on the Chain
The New World Singers - Blowin' in the Wind
The Broadside Singers - Paths of Victory
Peter La Farge - The Ballad of Ira Hayes
The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton - Ain't That News?
The Broadside Singers - The Times I've Had
Matt McGinn - Go Limp
The Glasgow Song Guild - Ding Dong Dollar
Pete Seeger - Mack the Bomb
Mark Spoelstra - The Civil Defense Sign
Happy Traum & Bob Dylan - Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Jim Page - Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette
Malvina Reynolds - What Have They Done to the Rain?
Phil Ochs - Ballad of William Worthy
Tom Paxton - Train for Auschwitz
Pete Seeger - Do As the Doukhobors Do
The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton & Pete Seeger - Christine
Peter La Farge - As Long As the Grass Shall Grow
Bob Dylan - John Brown
Bonnie Dobson - Take Me for a Walk

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Playlist for 3/15/11

Disasters and Nuclear Power - for Japan
DAVID ROVICS - Tsunami - Haliburton Boardroom Massacre - 2006
STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - In the Islands - Raven Speaks - 2009
KRISTIN LEMS - Too Cheap to Meter - Equality Road: In the Out Door - 2007 Carolsdatter Productions
CHARLIE KING - Acres of Clams - Somebody's Story - 1979
TOM NEILSON - Just A Little Meltdown - Fools No More - 2006

War - for Libya
STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - They've Got Guns - Raven Speaks - 2009
LYDIA ADAMS DAVIS - Did I Miss the Demonstration - Take Me Back - 1993 Three Feathers Music, Remastered 2008
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Waiting for the Fall, A Retrospective - BMI
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008
JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010

Empires fall, Life endures
JONATHAN BYRD - I Was an Oak Tree - Cackalack - 2010
JOHN PRINE - That's How Every Empire Falls - Fair & Square EP - 2008 John Prine
COCO & LAFE - The Dreaming Bean - Big Bang! - 2011 Skyhunter Music
TIM GRIMM - The Hole - Holding Up the World - 2008

Unions - for Wisconsin
BEV GRANT - Union Maid - We Were There! - 2002
TOM JURAVICH - Power in a Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2003

Sue Kranz & Ben Tousley at the Echo Lake - 3/19/11
SUE KRANZ & BEN TOUSLEY - Field Behind the Plow - Demo CD 2011
SUE KRANZ & BEN TOUSLEY - Take Heart - Demo CD 2011
SUE KRANZ & BEN TOUSLEY - Waterfall - Demo CD 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day
SI KAHN - Mother Jones' Farewell to Ireland - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Records
JOE JENCKS - ON Eireann's Shore - Links in a Chain - 2009

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Playlist for 3/8/11

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Me? - Daddy's Little Girl - 2003

Women in the World:
SUE & DWIGHT - Marching - Little Child Big World - 2008 S& W Peters
AMY CAROL WEBB - On It Goes - Faith, Fortitude, Friends - 2004
SARA THOMSEN - A Woman's Place - Everything Changes - 2008

Heroines:
JENNIE AVILA - To Clara Barton - Civil War Stories in Song - 2009
SARA THOMSEN - My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage - By Breath - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - The Death of Rachel Corrie - Waiting for the Fall, A Retrospective - BMI

Women and Work:
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There - 2002
TOM JURAVICH - Factory of Broken Dreams - Altar of the Bottom Line- 2007 Finnegan Music
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - Cotton Mill Girls - Images of Women, Vol. 1 - 2002 Windy Records
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be an Engineer - Three Score & 10 - 2007 Appleseed

Women and War:
JANET BATES - Women in Black - The Colours Will Come Back - 2005
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Mrs. McGrath Revisited - 2008
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - The Cruel War - Images of Women, Vol. 2 - 2010 Windy Records
THE MAMMALS - Alone on the Homestead - Departure - 2006 Humble Abode Music

What Kind of Woman Are You?:
BOB DYLAN - Just Like a Woman - Best of Original Mono Recordings 2010 Sony Music
LEONARD COHEN - Suzanne - Songs from the Road - 2010 Sony Music
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Real Woman - Daddy's Little Girl - 2003
KRISTEN LEMS - The Witches Song - Equality Road: We Will Never Give Up - 2007

Mothers and Grandmothers:
SARAH PIRTLE - Mama's Weaving - Pocketful of Wonder - 2009 Discovery Center Music
BEV GRANT - Mama Never Said a Word - In Time - 1995
LUCY KAPLANSKY - Amelia - 2007 Red House Records
PETER SIEGEL - My Grandmother - Move the Mob - 2001
KRISTEN LEMS - My Mom's a Feminist - Equality Road: We Will Never Give Up - 2007

Women and Love:

ROBIN GREENSTEIN - Come All You Fair & Tender Ladies - Images of Women, Vol. 2 - 2010 Windy Records
ANNE LOUISE WHITE - This Condition - Then Again - 1993 Mango Douce Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - People Love - Hands - 2001 Appleseed

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Playlist for 3/1/11

PETER MAYER - All the World Is One - Heaven Below - 2010 Peter Mayer

In Solidarity with the Wisconsin Workers:

TOM JURAVICH - We Are Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
BEV GRANT - Union Maid - We Were There - 2002 Beverly Grant
PETE SEEGER - Talking Union - Carry It On - 19887 Flying Fish Records

Free Press and Internet, too:

CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - The News, the Blues & the People Take II - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID ROVICS - What If You Knew - Waiting for the Fall, A Retrospective - BMI

For the Libyan Freedom Fighters:

BOB DYLAN - The Times They Are A-Changin' - Best of Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music
TOM PRASADA-RAO - Better Angels - Goodnight Regret - 2010 Tom Prasada-Rao
STORYHILL - Better Angels and Cover Your Tracks - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records
JANET BATES - A Lion - The Colours Will Come Back - 2004 Janet Bates
DEAN STEVENS - Let Justice Roll Down - At Last - 2008 Volcano Records
BOB DYLAN - Chimes of Freedomn - Best of Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music

What's Wrong with this country?
ETHAN MILLER - Organized Crime - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
BILL HARLEY - Ahab - First Bird Call - 2008 Round River Recors
ANNE FEENEY - C.E.O.s - Jail for Justice - 2000 Anne Feeney
PETER SIEGEL - My Culture - Move the Mob - 2001 Peter Siegel
EVAN GREER - The Day All the Democrats Won - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
PETE SEEGER - And Still I Am Searching - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - 1998 Appleseed Recordings

The Criminal System:

ANNE FEENEY - For Gene Debs - Jail for Justice - 2000 Anne Feeney
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Who Will Be Next on the Gallows? - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
TOM NEILSON - Allenwood Jail - Spirit of Justice - 2003 Roaring Jelly Productions

What State Religion:
PETER MAYER - The Garden - Heaven Below - 2010 Peter Mayer
ETHAN MILLER - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
PETER SIEGEL - The Preacher & the Slave - Move the Mob - 2001 Peter Siegel
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Our Father - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
TOM PRASADA-RAO - Gitanjali - Goodnight Regret - 2010 Tom Prasada-Rao

Uplifting Signoff:
DEAN STEVENS - La Tierra Es Mi Madre - At Last - 2008 Volcano Records
ETHAN MILLER & Kate Boverman - Tree of Life - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Playlist for 2/22/11

Sorry, there was no show last week, due to illness. Here's this week's playlist:

ANNE FEENEY - Winter, Go Away - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records

For the Mideast fight for freedom:
SARA THOMSEN - Freedom Song - Big Breath - 2003 Sara Thomsen
FRED ARCOLEO - Made to Stand - Seeds - 2010 Rally Folk Records
DAVID ROVICS - Resistance - Return - 2003 David Rovics
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - What's That I Hear - What's That I Hear - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Three cheers for the LABOR movement in Wisconsin:
KEN LONNQUIST - 14 Senators - Youtube.com, written 2/18/11
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Jail for Justice - 2000 Anne Feeney
TOM JURAVICH - The Problem - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
EVAN GREER - Picketline Song - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
BEV GRANT - Which Side Are You On? - We Were There! - 2002 Beverly Grant
SI KAHN - Jobs With Justice - I'll Be There - 1989 Flying Fish Rcords
ANNE FEENEY - Internationale - Jail for Justice - 2000 Anne Feeney

More for Black History Month:

MAGPIE - The Ballad of Harriet Tubman - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS & MAGPIE - Freedom Riders - What's That I Hear - 1995 Sliced Bread Records
MAGPIE - Cry Carolina - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change
MAGPIE - The Testimony of Frederick Douglas - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
GREG GREENWAY - In the Name of Love - Live - 2003 Circle of Friends Coffeehouse

Belated Happy Valentine's Day:
DAVID ROVICS - Life Is Beautiful - Waiting for the Fall, A Retrospective - BMI
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ & BEN KYLE - Big Kiss - We Still Love Our Country - 2010 Ninth St. Opus
DOUGIE MacLEAN - This Love Will Carry - The Essential Dougie MacLean - 2007 Dunkeld Records
GATHERING TIME - Moonlight Row - Preview of Red Apples & Gold - 2010 Gathering Time
SARA THOMSEN - Hearts & Hands - Fertile Ground - 1999 Sara Thomsen

Love the Environment:
LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005 Libby Roderick
PATTI CASEY - You Are the River - The Heart of a Waiting Boy - 2010 Patti Casey
PAUL KAPLAN - Call Me the Whale - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music

PAT LAMANNA - Sing to the Mountains - Full Circle - 2009 Pat Lamanna

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Playlist for 2/8/11 - May Freedom Ring

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Windows of the Heart - PMN live concert 2006 Amherst, MA

Black History Month:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Harriet Tubman/Steal Away - Steal Away - 1997 Appleseed Recs.
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - One Little Step Towards Freedom - Get On Board - 2007 Appleseed Recordings
AUDREY AULD - The Butterfly Effect - Folk Alliance Showcase Compilation XIII - 2009
BETH DeSOMBRE - Crawfordsville, Indiana - At Home in this Town - 2011 Beth DeSombre Music
PETE SEEGER & Friends - Take It from Dr. King - Seeds, Vol. 1 - 2003 Appleseed Recs.
PAMELA MEANS - Two Halves - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
ETHAN MILLER - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVE LIPPMAN - Free At Last - I Hate Walmart - 1998 Dave Lippman
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Nelson Mandela Released from Prison 2/11/1990:
Elvis Costello, Dave Wakeling & Ranking Roger - Free Nelson Mandela - youtube special AKA live
STELLA CHIWESHE - Huvhimi - Folk Alliance Showcase Compilation VII - 2003
TONY BIRD - Sorry Africa - Sorry Africa - 1990Subtropical and Rounder Records
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS - Freedom Has Come - The Power of Song - 1994 Bev Grant Music
SHARON KATZ & The Peace Train - Jikele Maweni Siyahamba - youtube.com


Magpie at the Echo Lake, Leverett, MA 2/12/11:

MAGPIE - Who Will Speak for the Trees - Raise Your Voice - 2004 Sliced Bread Records
MAGPIE - The Rainforest Song - Living Planet - 1989 Collector Records
MAGPIE - Raise Your Voice - Raise Your Voice - 2004 Sliced Bread Records

To the Egyptian Revolution:
PAUL KAPLAN - Send in the Thugs - Youtube 2011
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008 Gathering Time
EVAN GREER - Ya Basta! - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
RAY KORONA - The Cost of Freedom - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010 Ray Korona
LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005 Libby Roderick Music
DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002 David Rovics

PETE SEEGER - If I Had a Hammer - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Playlist for 1/25/11

Winter Songs:
KEN WEBB - Let It Snow - Christmas Pony - 2001 Kenn Webb
DEBRA COWAN - The Snow Is on the Ground - Fond Desire Farewell - 2008 Falling Mtn. Music
ZOE MULFORD - The January Man - Hudson Hardy Sampler v.5 - 2010 Hudson Harding Music
TIM GRIMM - Heart of the Winter - Farm Songs - 2009 Tim Grimm

For Martin Luther King Day:
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Done With Driver's Dribbin' - Get On Board, V.2 - 2007 Appleseed
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Get On Board - Get On Board, V.2 - 2007 Appleseed
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Ballad of the Underground Railroad - Get On Board, V.2 - 2007 Appleseed
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS - Freedom After While - The Power of Song - Bev Grant
AMY CAROL WEBB - Rosa - 2006 Music to Life - Public Domain Fndn.
BEV GRANT - Harriet Tubman - We Were There! - 2002 Beverly Grant

Protest of George W. Bush's Inauguration on 1/20/01:
DAVID ROVICS - Moron - Songs for Mahmud - 2004 David Rovics
MAGPIE - I Trust the People - Hail to the Thief II - 2004 Running Scared Prods.
JUD CASWELL - The Men Behind the Bushes - Blackberry Time - 2007 Jud Caswell
MARK LEVY - Son-of-a-Bush - Hail to the Thief II - 2004 Running Scared Prods.


First Bombing of Iraq 1/17/91:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for Basra - Hang A Flag In The Window - 2002 David Rovics
JAY MANKITA - They Lied - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004 Jay Mankita
DAVID ROVICS - Hang A Flag In The Window - Hang A Flag In The Window - 2002 David Rovics
RORY McLEOD - No More Blood for Oil - Not in our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
JIM PAGE - Collateral Damage - Collateral Damage - Whid Isle Music

For the Environment:

SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER - Point of No Return - One Earth - 2009 Tremont Prods.
DOUG SPEARS - Okeechobee - Welcome Home - 2009 Cypress Moss Records
DEB COWAN -_FarmersandFishermen - 2010 mp3
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com

Songs of Hope and Healing:
SIOBHAN QUINN & MICHAEL BOWERS - Let It Come - Dreamers, Lovers & Outlaws - 2007 Roundhouse Music
TRACY SPRING - Of this World - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1, 2012
BEN TOUSLEY - Here's to the Milk of Kindness - Open the Gates - 1998 Ben Tousley
ANNIE CANADA - One Hope - Social Change Sampler

MINDY SIMMONS - One World - One World Our World - 2009 Mindy Lou Music

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Playlist for 1/11/11

VOICES - Siph' Amandla - Step By Step - 1996 Voices

Civil Rights:

BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
KATY MOFFATT - Here's to the State of Mississippi - What's That I Hear - 1995 Sliced Bread Records
TIM GRIMM - Rebecca Versailles - Holding Up the World - 2008 Corazong Records
SI KAHN - Mervin Barr - New Wood - 1994 Rounder
PETE SEEGER, JANE SAPP, SI KAHN - Harriet Tubman - Carry It On - 1987 Flying Fish Records

Gun Control - for Gabby Giffords:

VOICES - I Need A Gun - Step By Step - 1996 Voices
CHRISTINE LAVIN - More than One Million Americans - Live Stillwater, NJ, May 10, 2008
DAVID ROVICS - In the Name of God - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009 BMI
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Perfect World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008 Ellen Bukstel

Immigration:
DAVID ROVICS - Guanajuato - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009 BMI
PAT HUMPHRIES - Cold Cup of Water - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings
JOE JENCKS - Deportee - I Hear Your Voice - Rise As One - 2005 Turtle Bear Music
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josseline - 2009 Single - Low Tide Drifters
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

For Haiti-One year later:

GUY MENDILOW BAND - Amazing Grace - Skyland - 2008 Mendilusian Music

Feature on Spook Handy:
SPOOK HANDY - Mom & Pop's Small Town Corner Hardware Store - Watcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records
SPOOK HANDY - Youir Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Any More- Watcha Gonna
Do? - 2007 Akashic Records
SPOOK HANDY - Heading for the Hague - Watcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records

This Filthy Rotten System:
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - This Filthy Rotten System - The Distance Remaining - 2010 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
ARLO GUTHRIE w/ the Dillards - Do Re Mi - Thirty-two Cents - 2008 Rising Son Records
AMY MARTIN - Consequences - Bind Me to Free - 2006 Amy Martin
COLLEEN KATTAU - No Ordinary Heifer - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio

Hope:
TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1, 2012 on myspace
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006 Bev Grant

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Playlist for 1/4/11

Peace:
TOM PAXTON - How Beautiful Upon the Mountain - Comedians & Angels - 2008 Appleseed
PAUL KAPLAN - To Stop the War - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Earth - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings

For Native Americans:

KATHERINE RHODA - May We All Fly Like Eagles - 2009 Katherine Rhoda
JIM PAGE - Song for Leonard Peltier - Ghost Bikes - 2010 Jim Page
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

Heroes & Outlaws:

JOE JENCKS - Saro Wiwa - I Hear Your Voice - 2003 Joe Jencks
DAVID ROVICS - Sugihara - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010 David Rovics
SI KAHN - Clarence Kailin - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
DAVID ROVICS - The Last Lincoln Vet - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010 David Rovics
CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Slip of the Hand - The Distance Remaining - 2010
Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
SARAH UNDERHILL/IAN WORPOLE - Hughey the Graeme - Strange Sweethearts - 2010 Sarah Underhill

For those in Prison:
SARAH UNDERHILL - From the Prison - Strange Sweethearts - 2010 Sarah Underhill
SI KAHN - Hutto - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
RAY KORONA - Vote for Prisons - The People Are In Charge - 2002 Ray Korona
KEVIN SO - Letter from Guantanomo - Best Foot Forward - 2009 WingBone Records

Spook Handy at the Echo Lake 1/15/11:
SPOOK HANDY - Vote - Breakfast at Bill's - 2001 Akashic Records
SPOOK HANDY - Death Came Anyway - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records
SPOOK HANDY - It's Your War Now, Mrs. Bly - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records

War and its vets:
STEVE & KRISTIN NEBEL - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya - Raven Speaks - 2009 Icebird Records
STEVE & KRISTIN NEBEL - Joe & Jarhead - Raven Speaks - 2009 Icebird Records
HOLLY NEAR - I am Willing - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Solar Carol - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings