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