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