Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Playlist for 12/23/15

Winter Solstice:
GATHERING TIME – A Light in the Darkness – Keepsake – 2015
CHRIS CHANDLER & PAUL BENOIT - Winter Song/Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan/Chris Chandler) - Matadors – 2011
JOE JENCKS - The Longest Night of the Year - Happy Holidays! Vol. 10 - 2015
SARA THOMSEN - The Longest Night - Winter Wanderings - 2012

Elections:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Big Republican Tent - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - God's Gift to the Caliphate – 2015
JAMES LEE STANLEY - Political Party - The Envoy – 1993
BRIAN HUNT - The Redistricting Song – 2011

Revolution:
DAVID ROVICS - Waiting for the Hurricane - The Other Side - 2015
SHAWN TAYLOR - Waves - Free – 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Levantese Companero (Angel Parra) - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Remeniscent Sounds
JANET BATES - Calling for You - Another Child – 2006
MEDICINE BAND - Millenium Drum (John Coster) - Dangerous Kingdom – 1997

What's Wrong with America:
DAN WEBER - Oh Woody - What I'm Lookin For - 2015
BILLY JONAS - This We Know - Get Real - 2004
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Not Me - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009
THE PAPERBOYS - City of Chains - At Peace with One's Ghosts - 2015

Mining Disasters:

BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Blantyre Explosion - Beg & Borrow - 2015
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Widow of the Mountain - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records
SUSIE GLAZE - West Virginia Mine Disaster (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

Merry Christmas:
DAVID ROVICS – Christmas in a Tent - The Other Side - 2015
SOFIA TALVIK - Cold Cold Feet - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Christmas Song - Everything Can Change - 2013
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Christmas in the Trenches - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Playlist for 12/16/15

Today we had a live show for Phil Ochs' birthday in the WMCB studio. We started by playing from the CD:
PHIL OCHS - Changes - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

Then three local singer-songwriters from the Western Mass. area sang Phil's songs. Jay and Karen harmonized when the other led the song and John played harmonica:
JOHN COSTER – There But for Fortune
JAY MANKITA – Draft Dodger Rag, When I'm Gone and Cops of the World
KAREN BROOKS – Power and the Glory

A round robin followed with all three singing their original songs:
JOHN COSTER – Walk So Proud, Ontario, Old Stones Broken Bones, Johnny Has Gone to France
JAY MANKITA – Proud to Be a Socialist, How Deep and Wide, Bessie, Lost Again
KAREN BROOKS – Wings of a Dove, Se Baba (Prayer for Peace), Motorcycle Song

The last half hour was filled with songs from CDs. Four of Bev Grant's songs in advance of her performing at Mt. Toby Concerts on Saturday:
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006
WOOL&GRANT - Get the Frack Outta Here - Wool&Grant - 2013 Ina May Wool and Bev Grant
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters (Jolie Rickman) - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

The show ended with a song in memory of the Sandy Hook massacre of 12/14/12:
SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004

You can hear the entire show at:
http://www.buzzsprout.com/53208/334581-121615-musicofthepeople-john-jay-karen-mp3

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Playlist for 12/9/15

DAVID ROVICS - We Just Want the World - We Just Want the World - 1998

Elections/Politics:
DAVID ROVICS - God's Gift to the Caliphate - 2015
THE STEEL WHEELS - Endure - Lay Down, Lay Low – 2012
DAVE LIPPMAN - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers – 2010
LENNY SOLOMON - 501(C)4 - Under My Hat - 2014
ROWDY HOUSE - Don't Let a Liar Lead You - I Won't Comply - 2012
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Vote Republican - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records

Palestine:
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - In Jerusalem - 2015
THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Apartheid - 2012 youtube.com
JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage – 2002
DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

Heroes and Heroines:

FENDRICK AND PECK - If I Could Only Turn Back - Lucky Penny - 2015
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Have Gone - The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
CARDBOARD OX - The Ballad of Ida - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgotten - 22 Days - 2013 Appalsongs
ANNE FEENEY - Fannie Sellins - Union Maid - 2003

Development:

FENDRICK AND PECK - Sweet Peppermint Wind - Lucky Penny - 2015
MISSY WERNER - Main Street - Turn This Heart Around – 2014
MATT BORRELLO - Silver City - Don't Turn Around - 2010
JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music
DAVID ROVICS - Gentrification Town - When I'm Elected President - 2014

Fishing:
CARDBOARD OX - The Fisherman - 2015
PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
SETH LAKEMAN - The Shoals of Herring (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - Compass Records – 2015
FINEST KIND - No More Fish, No Fishermen (Shelley Posen/John Goss) - Heart's Delight - 1999 Fallen Angel Music

Happy Chanukah:

GREENFIELD HARMONY – Ocho Kandelitas - Live Concert – 12/7/08

Monday, December 7, 2015

Playlist for 12/2/15

MICHAEL BRAUNFELD – The Local – Full Circle – 2014

Poverty:
SOFIA TALVIK - Cold Cold Feet - 2015
DAN SCHATZ- Poor Man (Frank Proffitt) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
JACK WARSHAW - No Country for Poor People - Single - 2013
SHAWN TAYLOR - The Bottom Line - Home - 2012
ANGELA EASTERLING - Lay My Head - Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music
JOHN COSTER - Last Stand on the Land - Lost Horizon - 2013

Domestic Violence:
JASON TYLER BURTON - The Ballad of Sally Moore - Pt. 1 Road Runner - 2015
JASON TYLER BURTON - The Ballad of Sally Moore - Pt. 2 - All the Whiskey in the World - 2015
JASON TYLER BURTON - The Ballad of Sally Moore - Pt. 3 - 2015
JEREMY LYONS - Clouds on Her Face - Make It Better - 2014
PAT HUMPHRIES - Jamie - Same Rain - 1992 Moving Forward Music
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Real - The Hour Before – 2015

Climate Change - COP 2015 Paris:
TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be – 2012
RUSTIC RIDERS - Small Farms Rising - Wake Up! - 2015
COLLEEN KATTAU - When's It Gonna Rain - Promo CD - 2015
MICHAEL BRAUNFELD - Washed Away - Full Circle - 2014

Immigration:
DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN - The Mist of Down Below - New Disguise - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President – 2014
ALAN REID - The Road of Tears - Recollection - 2010 Temple Records
HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road- Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Revolution:
ABBY LAPPEN - Evolution - Edge of Time - 2014
KRISTEN GRAVES - Demand - Now Ain't the Time for Tears – 2014
JANET BATES - Bearded Stranger - Another Child – 2006
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes – 2008

Songs for the Spirit:
ABBY LAPPEN - Edge of Time - Edge of Time - 2014
DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN - The Mist of Down Below - New Disguise - 2015
SARA THOMSEN – Holy Angels - Everything Changes – 2008

Friday, November 27, 2015

Playlist for 11/25/15

SI KAHN - Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving - 2007 Strictly Country Records
SWAMP BROTHERS - Food on the Table - The Tennessee Sessions - 2015 Itchy Sabot Records

Kennedy Assassination - 11/23/63:
ROBERT HARRIS - Song of the Assassination - 2012
ROD MacDONALD/MARK DANN - Honorable Men - The CooP - 1982 Fast Folk
ROD MacDONALD - The Ballad of Lee Harvey - 1990
ROD MacDONALD - Swallowed the Lie - Lee Harvey & the Microdots - 1997 Blue Flute

Iraq War:

TOM PAXTON - George W. Told the Nation - 2007 Pax Music
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Who Will Be Next on the Gallows? - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
ANNE FEENEY - Shell Game - If I Can't Dance - 2006
DAVE LIPPMAN - They Hate Our Fredom - Singing CIA Agent George Shrub Live in Manhattan - 2004
DAVE LIPPMAN - I Wonder Who's Kissinger Now - Singing CIA Agent George Shrub – 2004
CAILTE KELLY - Carry On - 2008
LINDSAY MAC - His Dreams - Stop Thinking - 2008
MEDICINE BAND - Johnny, Johnny (John Coster) - Dangerous Kingdom - 1997
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008

Refugees:
RAY KORONA - Displaced - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DANA SIPOS - Night Sky - Roll Up the Night Sky - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - 1492 - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Upon Our Shores – 2015
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - Orphans (Anne Hills) - Rhubarb Trees - 2011
THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein
DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President - 2014

Politics:

CHATHAM STREET - House of Fools - All That Mattered - 2011
AZTEC TWO-STEP - Falling Down Clowns - Cause & Effect - 2012 Red Engine Records
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl – 2008
JOHN COSTER - Walk So Proud - Lost Horizon - 2013

TOM NEILSON - Sueno con Serpientes - Another Pacifist Under Surveillance - 2007

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Playlist for 11/18/15

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Am You (Anne Hills & Michael Smith) - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

Joe Hill Executed 11/19/15:

JOE JENCKS - Joe Hill (Earl Robinson/Alfred Hayes) - Links in A Chain – 2009
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Ghost of Joe Hill - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
THE NIELDS – Joe Hill - XVII – 2015 Mercy House Prods.
DAVID ROVICS - Joe Hill - The Other Side - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's a Long Way to the Soup Line (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Tramp (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Joe Hill's Last Will (Joe Hill/John McCutcheon) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs

Terrorism:
HANNEKE CASSEL - The Marathon (For Boston) - Dot the Dragon's Eyes - 2013 Cassel Records
LIZ MITCHELL - In My City - Single - 2013
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Short Shift at Ground Zero - Simplicity - 2002
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROVICS - International Terrorists - Living In These Times - 2001
DAVID ROVICS - Promised Land - Return – 2003
SEIZE THE DAY - United States - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard

Racism:
ANGELA EASTERLING - Isaac Woodard's Eyes- Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008

Labor:

HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Song About a Miner - 2015
ANGELA EASTERLING - Throwing Strikes - Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music
HEDY WEST with Pete Seeger on banjo - Cotton Mill Girls - Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest
MOLASSES CREEK - Choo Choo Yazoo - Something Worth Having - 2014

Women/Abuse:

LOUISE MOSRIE – Lay It Down - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
ANGELA EASTERLING - Arkansas Murder Ballad - Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music
COLLEEN KATTAU - Nice Love - Promo CD - 2015

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - May the Light of Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

Playlist for 11/11/15

Veteran's Day:
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
JANET BATES - American Soldier - Another Child - 2006
CHUCK WILLIAMS - On the Line - Trilogy - 2008
ARLON BENNETT - Bandana Man - Summer's Voice - 2007 Red Sea Records
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free – 2006

Vietnam Vets:
CHRIS BROWN - One Ice Cube - Characterist - 2011
GILLES MALKINE - Yellow Land - Time Dog – 2012
JAY PSAROS - The Orphan - Single - 2013
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT - Drive On (Johnny Cash)- The Rose of No-Man's Land – 2014

Back Home:

DAVID ROVICS - East Tennessee - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Killing Machine - Wage Love - 2015
STEVE SUFFET - The Blind Veteran -  Low Rent District - 2008
FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
JOHN FLYNN - Semper Fi - America's Waiting - 2009
LENNY SOLOMON - Soldier Coming Home - Under My Hat – 2014

PTSD:
JON BROOKS - Tajik Boy - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
RODNEY BROWN - Casualty of War - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
RICH EILBERT - Back from the War - Back from the War - 2009
NELL ROBINSON - Heroes (Jeremy Campbell/Ray Stephenson/Guy Clark) - The Rose of No-Man's Land – 2014
FREEBO - A Soldier at War - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
COLLEEN KATTAU - Combat Paper- The Living Years - 2013
SARAH PIRTLE - Take Another Step - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Playlist for 11/4/15

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Satisfied Mind (Joe Red Hayes/Jack Rhodes) - Gonna Rise Again - 2015

War:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - We Know War - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.
DAVID ROVICS – Before the War Came Home – The Other Side – 2015
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011
DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

War on the Poor:
RAY KORONA - Social Security Rag - The Safe Thing to Do - 2005
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Working Class - Class - 2013
SHAWN TAYLOR - Where's the Bottom - Home – 2012
SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles – 2011
PAUL SACHS - Survival is the New Success - Survival is the New Success - 2014
HEATHER PIERSON - Winter Tans - Make It Mine - 2010

Gun Control:
DAVID ROVICS – Angry White American Male – The Other Side – 2015
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Culture of Violence - Carry On - 2007 Talking Horse Music
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Cary Grant, Esther Williams, Tom Cruise and the Romance of the Gun - Live at McCabe's – 2015
SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart – 2004
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgive Us - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

Climate Change:

RUSTIC RIDERS - Drop in The Bucket - Wake Up! - 2015
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Let's Go Swimming - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013
JOHN COSTER - Last Stand on the Land - Lost Horizon - 2013
JACKSON BROWNE - Which Side? - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

Revolution:
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Levantese Companero - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Remeniscent Sounds
CHRISTY MOORE - The Companeros (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records
JOHN COSTER - Revolutionary - The World Has Changed - 2002 Sakkara Records
LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005
DAVID ROVICS – Waiting for the Hurricane – The Other Side – 2015

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Hope Dies Last - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

Friday, October 30, 2015

Playlist for 10/28/15

DEBI SMITH - Haunted - Hits & Holidays - 2016
JAMIE ANDERSON - Your Mama Scares Me - A Promise of Light - 2005 Tsunami Recordings

Police Brutality:
DAVID ROVICS - London Is Burning - Meanwhile In Afghanistan – 2013
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Single 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Watch Out for the Cops - Meanwile in Afghanistan – 2013
PAMELA MEANS - The Color of His Skin – 2014

Immigrants:
JOEL RAFAEL - Sierra Blanca Massacre - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
TED WARMBRAND - Who's the Criminal? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
ANNE WEISS - Hop in the Truck - Where Folk Gets the Blues -2012
CRABTREE & MILLS - Across the Borderline - Flight of Fancy - 2006 Free & Easy Music
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY - Familia del Corazon (Stookey/Sam Lardner/Paul G. Hill) - At Home - 2015 New World Multimedia

Holocaust:
CHUCK BRODSKY - Lili's Braids - Subtotal Eclipse - 2011
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY – Jean Claude (Stookey/Lan O'Kun/Richard Unsworth) - At Home - 2015 New World Multimedia
TIM GRIMM - Anne in Amsterdam - The Turning Point - 2013
SI KAHN - Children of Poland - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
DAVID ROVICS -Sugihara - Troubador - 2010

What's wrong:
TERRY KITCHEN - Sequel - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.
SONIA RUTSTEIN - No Bomb Is Smart - No Bomb Is Smart -2004
FUZEK & ROSSONI - Waking Up from the American Dream - Waking Up from the American Dream - 2008
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY - In These Times - At Home - 2015 New World Multimedia

Liberty/Freedom:

JON FROMER - Still Looking for Freedom - We Do the Work – 1999
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY - America (Samuel Ward/Katharine Lee Bates) - At Home - 2015 New World Multimedia
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
JACKSON BROWNE - Walls and Doors - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

Playlist for 10/21/15

John McCutcheon was interviewed by phone during the show in anticipation of his concert at Mt. Toby Concerts on 10/22/15

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin – 2014

Mountain Top Removal:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Tonight - 22 Days - 2013 Appalsongs
THE HONEY DEWDROPS - Hills of My Home - Silver Lining – 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Hills of Tennessee - Waiting for the Fall - 2009
WOOL & GRANT - Last Man on the Mountain - Wool & Grant - 2013

Oil Spills:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Black Sea - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Productions
CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com
THE HOLLANDS! - That Fatal Shore - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Lost Farms and Banksters:

JOHN McCUTCHEON – Dearest Martha – Gonna Rise Again – 1987 Rounder Records
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New – 2005
DAN SCHATZ- Eighty Acre Farm (Doug Becken) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Economy:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's the Economy, Stupid - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs
SI KAHN - The Gap ($8,825 An Hour) - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
DISAPPEAR FEAR - The Banker - Broken Film - 2013 Sonia Rutstein
PADDY MILLS - Race to the Bottom - Race to the Bottom – 2104

Immigrants:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Nothing Like You - 22 Days - 2013 Appalsongs
TOM JURAVICH - Immigrants Like Me - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
JON FROMER - We Do the Work- We Do the Work

Playlist for 10/14/15

PAT LAMANNA - October - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Indigenous People's Day:

DULCIE TAYLOR - When the Cherokee Roamed - Wind Over Stone - 2015 Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
TIM GRIMM - Sam's Song - The Back Fields - 2005
JOE CHIOVARI - Indian Twilight - 2009
DARRYL PURPOSE - The Ghost of Crazy Horse (Darryl Purpose/Paul Zollo) - Next Time Around - 2012
GILLIAN WELCH/DAVID RAWLINGS - As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (Peter LaFarge) - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Big Mountain - Live At Club Passim - 2000
JIM PAGE - Song for Leonard Peltier - Ghost Bikes - 2010
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Generation - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
NEPTUNE'S CAR - A Blue Sky Turned to Rust - The 45th Parallel - 2015
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco)nn- Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

Mining Disasters:

TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
RANDY BROWNING - Black Waters - Radical Rags - 2007
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Laz'rus - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.
SUSIE GLAZE - West Virginia Mine Disaster (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
KRISTIN LEMS - The Heart of A Woman - You, Me, and All of the Above - 2015 Carolsdatter Prods.

Disabilities:
LIBBY RODERICK - How Could Anyone - How Could Anyone - 2005
ANNE FEENEY - Courage (Bob Blue) - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000
DAVID ROTH - Mary Jo and Carol - So Far, So Good - 2015

Politics and Elections:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Vote Republican - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
DAVID ROVICS - I'm A Better Anarchist than You - The Commons 2008
DAVE LIPPMAN - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Election - Beyond the Mall - 2008

Women in men's roles:
BOXCAR LILIES - Captain's Seat - Knockout Rose - 2015
ZOE MULFORD - Sister, Sail - Coyote Wings - 2013

Monday, October 12, 2015

Playlist for 10/7/15

SUE KRANZ & BEN TOUSLEY - Take Heart - Take Heart - 2012

Gun Control:
MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
VOICES - I Need a Gun (Matt Yanny-Tillar) - Step By Step - 1996
EVAN FRANKEL - Slaughter - 2013
SUZIE BROWN - Fallen Down - Almost There - 2013
TOM PAXTON - What If, No Matter... - Single - 2013

Slavery:
ANA EGGE - Jenny Run Away - Bright Shadow - 2015 Grace/Parkinsong
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Follow the Drinking Gourd - Steal Away/Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - No More Auction Block - Steal Away/Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Harriet Tubman (Walter Robinson) - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder Record

Women in History:
DAVID ROTH - Women Planting Trees - So Far, So Good - 2015
LEONARD COHEN - Joan of Arc - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music
ANNE FEENEY - Amelia Earhart's Last Ride - If I Can't Dance - 2006
JOHN FLYNN - Malala - Poor Man's Diamonds - 2014
ANNE FEENEY - Fannie Sellins - Union Maid - 2003
WOOL&GRANT - JANIS (Ina May Wool) - Wool&Grant - 2013

Poverty:
THE BURNS SISTERS - Workhouse - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music
SUE MASSEK - Dreadful Memories (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Dialectic - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JANET BATES - Calling for You - Another Child - 2006
DAVID ROTH - Goodness Is More Than a Dream - So Far, So Good - 2015

Health Care/Drugs:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Who's the Pusher Now? - Single - 2012
LINQ - Prescription Chaos - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music
LINQ - Addicted to Drugs - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music
BILLY MITCHELL - Prescription Drugs - Detour - 2011
DAVID ROTH - Energy Medicine - So Far, So Good - 2015

Songs for the Spirit:
DAVID FERSH - Let the Mystery Be (Iris Dement) - Songs of Peace, Protest, and Spirit - 2015
DAVID ROTH - So Far, So Good - So Far, So Good - 2015

Monday, October 5, 2015

Playlist for 9/30/15

WOOL&GRANT - Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go) (Bev Grant) - Wool&Grant - 2013

Gun Control:
EFRAT - Bring Me Peace - The Silver Lining - 2015
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Cary Grant, Esther Williams, Tom Cruise and the Romance of the Gun - Live at McCabe's - 2015
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Culture of Violence - Carry On - 2007 Talking Horse Music
LEON ROSSELSON - Child Killers - Harry's Gone Fishing - 2000 Gadfly
ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records

Democracy/Justice:
HEALY & JURAVICH - Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
DAVID ROVICS - From Kabul to Khartoum - Living in These Times - 2001
JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
APARNA LAKSHMI - Can I Get a Witness - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011
PATTI SMITH - People Have the Power - Outside Society - 2011 Sony Music

For the Earth:
MOLLY SCOTT - We Are All One Planet - Songs of Peace, Protest, and Spirit - 2015 David Fersh
LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005
STILL ON THE HILL - When I Go to Water - Once A River - 2014 Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
JOHN GORKA - Thirstier World - Bright Side of Down - 2014 Red House Records
SCOTT COOK - Pass It Along - One More Time Around - 2013

Prisons:
JOHN ROBERTS & DEBRA COWAN - Jim Jones - Ballads Long and Short - 2015 Golden Hind Music
JOHN ROBERTS & DEBRA COWAN - Anderson's Coast - Ballads Long and Short - 2015 Golden Hind Music
KYREEM TABAR, SHELLZ, RELL & INTEL - Three Strikes - Mass Incarceration - 2012
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Prison Yard - Hurricane - 2008
DAVID ROVICS - Deadhead in Prison - Live at Club Passim - 2000

Spanish Civil War:

DICK GAUGHAN - Jamie Foyers (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - Compass Records - 2015
PETE SEEGER - Viva la Quince Brigada - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
WOODY GUTHRIE - Jarama - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
Unknown/People of Seville- Sevillanos - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
DAVID ROVICS - The Last Lincoln Veteran - Troubador (People's History in Song) - 2010

LEONARD COHEN - Hallelujah - Songs from the Road - 2010 Sony Music

Monday, September 28, 2015

Playlist for 9/23/15

JASON TYLER BURTON - Evergreen - Headwaters - 2014

Freedom:
DULCIE TAYLOR - Not Here, Not Today - Wind Over Stone - 2015 Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
TRET FURE - Freedom - Rembrandt Afternoons - 2015 Tomboy Girl Records
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Walking Down that Freedom Highway - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Development/Gentrification:

DULCIE TAYLOR - When the Cherokee Roamed - Wind Over Stone - 2015 Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
DAN SCHATZ- The Kind Land (Gordon Bok) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
TIM GRIMM - Sam's Song - The Back Fields - 2005
JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - City of Dreams - Childhood Home - 2014

Lost Farms:
MIKE LAUREANNO - The Field - Road Signs - 2015
GENE MORRISON - Crying in the Night - Looking Back - 2010
DAN SCHATZ - One Last Look Behind - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Anti-Racism:
ANNE FEENEY - Rebuild America-Keep Hope Alive! - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Harriet Tubman (Walter Robinson) - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder Record
PATRICK SYLVEST - Ode to Rans McGaskey - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014
SARAH PIRTLE - Ballad of Juanita Nelson - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music
ANI DiFRANCO - Take Down Your Flag - (Peter Mulvey) - 2015

Aging:

TIM GRIMM - She Remembers - Farm Songs - 2009
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - When This Old Hat Was New - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music
MARA LEVINE - The Dutchman (Michael Peter Smith) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013
PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT - Old Apples - A More Perfect Union - 2012 Appleseed Recordings

FRED GILLEN, JR. - We the People - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
ANA EGGE - Rock Me (Divine Mother) (Ana Egge/Gary Nicholson) - Bright Shadow - 2015 Grace/Parkinsong

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Playlist for 9/16/15

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Dancin' in the Kitchen – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

What's wrong with America:

RACHAEL KILGOUR - In America - Whistleblower's Manifesto: Songs for a New Revolution – 2013
DAVID ROVICS - God Bless the USA - Into A Prism – 2013
SONIA RUTSTEIN - No Bomb Is Smart - No Bomb Is Smart -2004
BILLY JONAS - This We Know - Get Real – 2004
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009

Cultural Genocide/Gypsies:
ELIZA CARTHY - Thirty-foot Trailer (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records
PAUL BRADY - Freeborn Man (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records
NORMA WATERSON - Moving On Song (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records

Homelessness:
JACK WILLIAMS - Sleeping in the Streets - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records
3 PENNY ACRE - Rag and Bone -Rag and Bone – 2013
LEONARD COHEN - Never Gave Nobody Trouble - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music
KARINE POLWART - The Terror Time (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records
PETER KEANE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) - Rural Electification – 2015

Farms:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - No Turning Back Now - What It's Like – 1990
BETHEL STEELE - The Farm - Of Love & Whiskey – 2012
TOM CHAPIN - Farmer's Market Good - Give Peas a Chance - 2011 Sundance Music
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - Farmer's Market A-Z - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs – 2009

LGBT:
CARRIE FERGUSON - Girls Like Me - Riding on the Back of the Wind – 2009
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Everything Possible (Fred Small) – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – I Belong to A Family – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc
SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes – 2008
SI KAHN - Curtains of Old Joe's House - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records

Song:
LOUISE MOSRIE - Singing My Heart Out - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song – 2014

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Playlist for 9/9/15

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Labor Day - Supper's on the Table, Everybody Come In - 2001 Rounder Records

Fishermen:
TRET FURE - The Fishermen of Bristol Bay - Rembrandt Afternoons - 2015 Tomboy Girl Records
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
SI KAHN - Last Trip Home - Bristol Bay -2015 Strictly Country Records
PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music

Coal Miners:

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Pennsylvania Miner - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Laz'rus - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.
ANNE FEENEY - School Days End (Ewan MacColl) - Enchanted Way - 2010
JENI & BILLY - Land of the Pharaohs - Jewell Ridge Coal - 2008

Mill Workers:
BEV GRANT - I Am A Sewing Machine - 2015
JACK HARDY - Winter Sunlight - Noir - 2007
SI KAHN - Stitch and Sew - Threads - 2002 Double Time Music
HEDY WEST with Pete Seeger on banjo - Cotton Mill Girls - Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest

New Album by Terry Kitchen:
TERRY KITCHEN - Sequel - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.
TERRY KITCHEN - Perelli's Barber Shop - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.
TERRY KITCHEN - Stay Forever - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - One By One (Song for Trayvon Martin) - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.

Labor strikes:

LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones on the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002

Unions:

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005
SOLIDARITY SING ALONG - There Is Power in A Union (Billy Bragg)- This Is What Democracy Sounds Like - 2012 We're Still Here Records

Immigrants/Refugees:

DANA SIPOS - Night Sky - Roll Up the Night Sky - 2015
RAY KORONA - Displaced - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Before Their Ship Arrived-Spies Are Reading My Blog-2013
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

TRET FURE - Freedom - Rembrandt Afternoons - 2015 Tomboy Girl Records

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Playlist for 9/2/15

FREEBO & ERIC SCHWARTZ - Funk Up the Folk - If Not Now When - 2015 Poppabo Music

Prisons:
JOHNNY CASH - San Quentin - Live at San Quentin - 1969 Columbia Prisons - CA ruling re SHU
SI KAHN - Hutto - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
LARA HERSCOVITCH - But for the Grace - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012
JOHN FLYNN - Reggie's Question (What's in a Name) - America's Waiting - 2009

Civil War:
TERRY KITCHEN - Tall Against the Wave - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods. Civil War
BEN BEDFORD - Fisher's Hill - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
JENNIE AVILA - Breakfast at The Heck's - Civil War - 2009
LENNY SOLOMON - Gettysburg - Armando's Pie - 2004
LOUISE MOSRIE - Leave Your Gun - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music

Media:
SHARLEEN LEAHEY - Corporate News - Rumors of Peace - 2011 Media
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The News, The Blues and the People Take II - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DEAN STEVENS - New World Order - Eyes of Wonder - 1993
JANET BATES - Another Child - Another Child - 2006
DAVID ROVICS - All the News That's Fit to Sing - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014

Racism:
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records Racism
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
DAVID ROVICS - His Hands Were in the Air - When I'm Elected President - 2014
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - One By One (Song for Trayvon Martin) - 2015 Urban Campfire Productions

Religion:
FREEBO - A God of My Own Choosing - If Not Now When - 2015 Poppabo Music Religion
PAT LAMANNA - If I Believed in God - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Creation Science - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Hey Jesus - We the People - 2013
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts at Home - 2005

Songs for the Spirit:
FREEBO - I Ain't Runnin' No More - If Not Now When - 2015 Poppabo Music Songs for the Spirit
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Have A Little Faith - 2010 Inside Edge Records
COLLEEN KATTAU - Come with Me, Climb - The Living Years - 2013

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Playlist for 8/26/15

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary:
EVAN GREER - Ballad of Hurricane Katrina - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - New Orleans -Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Hurricane - Hurricane - 2008
FRED ARCOLEO - Ode to New Orleans - Seeds - 2010 - Rally Folk Records
GARY ALLEGRETTO - Four Days Late - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
FRICTION FARM - Louisiana (Rise Up Like the Water) - Believe - 2004 Quinn & Stay

War - refusal to fight for the system:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Not My War - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JANET BATES - Prisoner of Conscience - Another Child - 2006
JULIUS MARGOLIN - I Don't Want to Be A Soldier - Hail to the Thief II - 2003 George Mann
JON BROOKS - War Resister - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010

Speak Out:
FRICTION FARM - Believe - Believe - 2004 Quinn & Stay
JANET BATES - Calling for You - Another Child - 2006
JOHN FLYNN - Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is - Two Wolves - 2006
ELLEN BUKSTEL - By My Silence (Ellen Bukstel/Nick Annis) - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Peace:
JANET BATES - Bearded Stranger - Another Child - 2006
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Windows of the Heart (Live PMN Concert)- Standing Our Ground - 2006 Diane Crowe

Women:

HARPETH RISING - I Am Eve (I Am the Reason) - Shifted - 2015 Grimm Rising
KRISTIN LEMS - The Heart of A Woman - You, Me, and All of the Above - 2015 Carolsdatter Prods.
ZOE MULFORD - Sister, Sail - Coyote Wings - 2013
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Me? (Ellen Bukstel/Nancy Wuerzburger) - Daddy's Little Girl 2008

Environment-Climate Change:
HARPETH RISING - Well Hell - Shifted - 2015 Grimm Rising
PETER MAYER - Tomorrow's Train - Third Street - 2015

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Tree of Life - IfB8:B40

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Playlist for 8/19/15

Immigration:
WOOL & GRANT - In America (Bev Grant & Bruce Markow) - 2013 Ina May Wool & Bev Grant
DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President - 2014
THE BURNS SISTERS - Prisoner of the Promised Land - The Hills of Ithaca - 2012 Sisters Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Chelsea Manning:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for Chelsea Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011
GRAHAM NASH & JAMES RAYMOND - Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning) - 2011
DAVID NEAL - Bradley Manning - 2012 dissenter.firedoglake.com

Sacco & Vanzetti/Capital Punishment:

CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID ROVICS - Sacco and Vanzetti - Single - 2008
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - The Ballad of Tim Evans - Pressed for Time - 2013
ANNE HILLS - Iron Lady(Phil Ochs) - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Interview with Dan Schatz - new album: The Promise of the Sowing
DAN SCHATZ- The Promise of the Sowing - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- One Last Look Behind - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records

Cultural Genocide:
JOHN COSTER - Walk So Proud - Lost Horizon - 2013
CHIP TAYLOR - Black & Blue America - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
HEALY & JURAVICH - Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
ELISE WITT - Blessed Nation (Pete Seeger/Jim Musselman/Elise Witt) - Valise - 2009
EDDIE VEDDER - Society - Into the Wild - 2007 J Records
DAN SCHATZ- The Kind Land (Gordon Bok) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records


Environment/Save the Earth:

JOHN COSTER - Last Stand on the Land - Lost Horizon - 2013
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013


Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Playlist for 8/12/15

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Nuclear Weapons:

MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003
GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand (Nazim Hikmet/James Waters) - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004
ROD MacDONALD - Unearthly Fire - 2011 So. Florida Folk Fest
TOM NEILSON - Heroes of the Cold War - Biomess - 2010
SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

Hunger:
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER - Hungry Faint and Poor - Deep End Sessions - 2015
JON FROMER - I Cannot Sleep - We Do the Work
SUE and DWIGHT - Lucky Me - Little Child Big World - 2008
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - I Am Hungry - Economics of an Empty Stomach - 2011

Hard Times:
JENNIFER EVANS - There But for Fortune - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's a Long Way to the Soup Line (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
PETER KEANE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) - Rural Electification - 2015
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster) - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio

Economy/Income Disparity:

CLINT ALPHIN - Blessed Are the Rich - Post Modern Man - 2015
SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles - 2011
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - The Favor - 2012
LON MILO DUQUETTE - Class Warfare - Sweet Baba Lon - 2015
PADDY MILLS - Race to the Bottom - Race to the Bottom - 2104

Domestic Abuse:
PAMELA MEANS - Pollack in Pink - Precedent - 2009 Phylorra Music
CAROLYN CURRIE - Red Hawk Rising - Echolocation - 2014
ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
FACES OF EVE/Celeste & Rebecca - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008
JENNIFER EVANS - The Rights of Battered Women - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
COLLEEN KATTAU - We Will Take It Back - Inhabited Woman - 2007

Peace:

CLINT ALPHIN - Plowshares - Post Modern Man - 2015
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - One By One (Song for Trayvon Martin) - 2012 Demo

Playlist for 8/5/15

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Oil:
THE HOLLANDS! - That Fatal Shore - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Black Sea - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Productions
THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Oil and Water - 2012 youtube.com
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com
DANA HUBBARD - Petroleum People - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Fracking:
THOM CHACON - Before the Drilling Rigs Got Here - 2014
PETER ALSOP - Frack, Frack, Fracking - River of Life - 2015
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hydrofracking Blues (Alison Frost) - Singing Clear - 2011 Colleen Kattau & Bev Grant
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - Ten New Songs - 2011

Development/Gentrification:

JACKIE MORRIS - China Blue - Money to Burn - 2008 Button Box
MISSY WERNER - Main Street - Turn This Heart Around - 2014
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - City of Dreams - Childhood Home - 2014
PETER SIEGEL - The Local's Leaving Town - Living in Rome - 2008
JACKIE MORRIS - Where the Legends Grow Like Weeds - Where the Legends Grow Like Weeds - 2005 Button Box

Immigration:
ERIC BANNAN - An American Dream - Stumbling Towards the Light - 2015
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josselline - New Hard Time Blues - 2011
JOEL RAFAEL - Sierra Blanca Massacre - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD - Hello, Bonjour (Franti & Itene) - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Religion:

ROY SCHNEIDER - Old Tyme Religion - Ten from the Pen - 2015
PAT LAMANNA - If I Believed in God - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
SARA THOMSEN - The Good News - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - Who Would Jesus Bomb - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Playlist for 7/29/15

R.I.P. Theodore Bikel:
THEODORE BIKEL - Dona Dona - youtube

Pollution of the Earth:
DAN SCHATZ- The Promise of the Sowing - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- Something in the Rain - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
MAGPIE - This Old Bay (Bob Zentz) - Living Planet - 1989 - Long Tail Records
SARA THOMSEN - Precious Water - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

Lost Farms:
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New - 2005
BETH DeSOMBRE - For Winter - Crooked Highways - 2007
GENE MORRISON - Crying in the Night - Looking Back - 2010
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Corporate Farms:
DAN SCHATZ- Eighty Acre Farm (Doug Becken) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - Farmer's Daughter - Childhood Home - 2014
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Corporate Farm - Not Alone - 2013 Vigitant Records
JACKIE MORRIS - Factory Farm - Can't Fix Crazy - 2014 Button Box
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Ask Any Farmer - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

Death of Fishing:
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
FINEST KIND - No More Fish, No Fishermen (Shelley Posen/John Goss) - Heart's Delight - 1999 Fallen Angel Music
PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
EAGLE McCALL - The Mains'l and the Bell - Song of the Seas - 2012

Development/Gentrification (more to come next week):
HARPETH RISING - Day After Day - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013
JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music

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

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Playlist for 7/15/15

NASA's New Horizon reached Pluto on 7/14/15:
CRAIG WERTH - Oh Pluto - 2015

Prisons:
JOHNNY CASH - San Quentin - Live at San Quentin - 1969 Columbia
LARA HERSCOVITCH - But for the Grace - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Mississippi Lullaby - But for the Grace - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Prison Yard - Hurricane - 2008
SI KAHN - Hutto - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

Spanish Civil War:

PETE SEEGER - Viva la Quince Brigada - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
WOODY GUTHRIE - Jarama - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
Unknown/People of Seville- Sevillanos - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
DAVID ROVICS - The Last Lincoln Veteran - Troubador (People's History in Song) - 2010
SI KAHN - Clarence Kailin - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

Resistance:

MARC BLACK - Sometime A Spark - Sometime A Spark - 2012
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Sing Our Own Song (UB40/Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
DAVID ROVICS - Riot Dog - Big Red Sessions - 2011
SUE MASSEK - Dreadful Memories (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Rebel Girl (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
BREE NEWSOME - Stay Strong - 2014

Oil Spills:

DAVID ROVICS - Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler - Troubador (People's History in Song) - 2010
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Black Sea - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Productions
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com
THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Oil and Water - 2012 youtube.com
PAUL SACHS - Oil Town - Oil Town - 2011

Hard Times:
KARRNNEL SAWITSKY & DANIEL KOULACK - How Does A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live - Tunes from the North, Songs from the South - 2015
Live - Tunes from the North, Songs from the South - 2015
SHAWN TAYLOR - Where's the Bottom - Home - 2012
DAVE LIPPMAN - Hamburger Hill - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Red Tail - The Hour Before - 2015
CONNOR GARVEY - Hold Your Breath - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

Peace:
MARC BLACK - American Children - Sometime A Spark - 2012
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Playlist for 7/8/15

ANNIE PATTERSON - Gone Gonna Rise Again (Si Kahn) - Mountain Side - 2011

Farming/Gardening:

HARKENBACKS - Garden Song - Farmless - 2013
MELODY WALKER & JACOB GROOPMAN - Come On Mule - We Made It Home - 2013
ROWDY HOUSE - Family Farm - I Won't Comply - 2012
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New - 2005
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Ask Any Farmer - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

Palestine:
DAVE LIPPMAN - More Dead and Gaza Moans - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Gaza- When I'm Elected President - 2014
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - No Home in Zion - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - Living in These Times - 2001
JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002
DAVE LIPPMAN - Gaza's Ark - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015

Immigration/Mexican Border:
TED WARMBRAND - Who's the Criminal? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
DAVID ROVICS - Guanajuato - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josselline - New Hard Time Blues - 2011
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
ELISE WITT - The Borderline (Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, James Dickinson) - Mezzanine - 1993 WMWorld Records
GATHERING TIME - Train Coming - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - Miguel y Celestina - Atlantica - 2014 Small Batch Music

Banksters - for Greece:
AUSTERITY ALLSTARS - Bugger the Bankers - 2012
CHERYL WHEELER - We're the Bank - Live - 2012 DIAS Records
JACKIE MORRIS - House of Cards - Tell Me a Story - 2011
STEVE CHIZMADIA - The Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail -Out Blues - Jack of All Trades - 2012
WOODY GUTHRIE - Jolly Banker - Woody at 100 - 2012 Smithsonian Folkways

Songs for the Spirit:

DAN SCHATZ - Hands Across the Waters - The Song and the Sigh - 2010
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - To Hear Doc Watson Play - Aragon Mill/The Bluegrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
LIBBY RODERICK - Cradle of Dawn - How Could Anyone - 2005
ANNIE PATTERSON - O Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seege) - Mountain Side - 2011

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Playlist for 7/1/15

4th of July:
BLUE O'CONNELL - American Song - Single -1990
GRANT PEEPLES - The 4th Of July Parade Song - Indiscretion - 2014
JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010
CHIP TAYLOR - Black & Blue America - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root

Revolution/Resistance:
DAVID ROVICS - Bella Ciao - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014
ALIZA HAVA - Independent Nation - 2006 FireMusicFaerie Productions
KAREN BRANDOW - Levantese Companero (Angel Parra) - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Remeniscent Sounds
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Power in the Blood (Alabama 3/Buffy Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Waiting for the Fall - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Stand Together - RPM -2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Liberty/Freedom:
NANCY GRIFFITH & Friends - If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger) - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - 1998 Appleseed Recordings
COLLEEN KATTAU - Agua Bendita - The Living Years - 2013
LOIS MORTON - Red White and Blues - As I See It - 2008
COLLEEN KATTAU - Amen to the Freedom Ride - Single - 2014
RAY KORONA - The Cost of Freedom - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Justice:
FRED GILLEN, JR. - We the People - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
PAUL KAPLAN - Stand Our Ground for Justice - 2014
JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - We Built This City - Not Alone - 2012
APARNA LAKSHMI - Can I Get a Witness - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011

Native American:

GILLIAN WELCH/DAVID RAWLINGS - As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (Peter La Farge) - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
DARRYL PURPOSE - The Ghost of Crazy Horse (Darryl Purpose/Paul Zollo) - Next Time Around - 2012
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Sing Our Own Song (UB40/Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

KEB' MO' - America the Beautiful - Big Wide Grin - 2001  Sony Music

Friday, June 26, 2015

Playlist for 6/24/15

ANI DiFRANCO - Take Down Your Flag - (Peter Mulvey) - 2015

Civil Rights Movement of the '60's:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records
NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
MARSHALL & MATTHEW JONES, MAGPIE and KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - In the Mississippi River - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
CEJ - Let 'em Be the Last - Sleepwalker in Paradise - 2012

Civil War:
JACK WILLIAMS - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Robbie Robertson) - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records
BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
MAGPIE - Battle of Shiloh Hill (Lyrics: M B Smith) - Hard Times Come Again No More - 2011 Heritage Tourism Alliance of Montgomery Cnty.
LOUISE MOSRIE - Leave Your Gun - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
LENNY SOLOMON - Gettysburg - Armando's Pie - 2004
JENNIE AVILA - Breakfast at The Heck's - Civil War - 2009

Labor:

DELLA MAE - Boston Town - 2015 Rounder Records
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Pennsylvania Miner - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
SOLIDARITY SING ALONG - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister (Jim Garland/Daithi Wolfe) - This Is What Democracy Sounds Like - 2012 We're Still Here Records
DAVID ROVICS - Glory and Fame - We Just Want The World - 1998
SOLIDARITY SING ALONG - There Is Power in A Union (Billy Bragg)- This Is What Democracy Sounds Like - 2012 We're Still Here Records

Environment:

DELLA MAE - High Away Gone - 2015 Rounder Records
DANA HUBBARD - Petroleum People - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
BROTHER SUN - Well Well Well (Danny O'Keefe/Bob Dylan) - 2011 Brother Sun Music
OTTER CREEK - Bidder 70 - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
CAMBRIAH HEATON - Earth Song - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Economy:
ERIC BALKEY- My America - Everything Is Great - 2014
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The Money's Gonna Flow (Malvina Reynolds) - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
PADDY MILLS - Race to the Bottom - Race to the Bottom - 2104

MARV HAMILTON - Singin' With the Bees - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Playlist for 6/17/15

HEATHER PIERSON - Make It Mine - Still She Will Fly - 2015 Vessel Recordings

Welcome Summer:

ARI & MIA - Turn Me Round - Land on Shore - 2013
THE STEEL WHEELS - Until the Summer Comes - No More Rain - 2013
TERRY KITCHEN - Listening to Summer - Summer to Snowflakes - 2009 Urban Campfire Prods.
MARA LEVINE - Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin, Heyward DuBose) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

The Corporate System:

JAN HAMMARLUND - Free Enterprise (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
CHUCK BRODSKY - Not A Single Shot - Tell Tale Heart - 2015
SUE MASSEK - I Hate the Capitalist System (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
KEVIN ROBINS - Corporate Anorexia - 2010
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009

Mental Health:

CAROLINE DOCTOROW - Trigger in My Mind - Raven Girl - 2014
SANDY ROSS - Alice - Grandma's Got A Boombox - 2015 SLR Productions
LINQ - Tired - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Time - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012
ANNE LOUISE WHITE - The Place We Found for Michael (Andrew Lawrence) - Then Again - 1993 Mango Douce Music

Surveillance:

ROWDY HOUSE - Spy Drone Bounty - I Won't Comply - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Prism - Into A Prism - 2013
SPIRITCHILD - Surveillance Society (Free Tarek) - NSA Listening Party - 2015 Brooklyn For Peace
JOHN MUNNELLY - Things They Don't Want Us to Know (The Minotaur) - NSA Listening Party - 2015 Brooklyn For Peace
DAVE LIPPMAN - The Interdictedcalle - NSA Listening Party - 2015 Brooklyn For Peace

Fracking:

MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - Demo - 2011
PAUL SACHS - When the River Didn't Flow - Oil Town - 2011
ANNE HILLS - The Trade - Single - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - Ten New Songs - 2011
WOOL&GRANT - Get the Frack Outta Here - Wool&Grant - 2013 Ina May Wool and Bev Grant

Father's Day:

CHUCK BRODSKY - The Point - Tulips for Lunch - 2006
ELLEN BUKSTEL- Daddy's Little Girl - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
JOHN McCUTCHEON - My Old Man (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) - Nothing to Lose - 1995 Rounder Records

Friday, June 12, 2015

Playlist for 6/10/15

JONATHAN EDWARDS - Down in the Woods - Tomorrow's Child - 2015 Rising Records 207

R.I.P. Ronnie Gilbert:

RONNIE GILBERT with Robin Flower & Libby McLaren - Empty Pocket Blues (Pete Seeger) - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - 1998 Appleseed Recordings
THE WEAVERS - Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida (Holly Near) - youtube.com
HOLLY NEAR & RONNIE GILBERT - Precious Friend (Pete Seeger) - Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

TOM PAXTON - Get Up and Go (Pete Seeger) - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - 1998 Appleseed Recordings

Environmental beauty:

LYNNE TAYLOR - Butterfly - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
BILL STEELY & WHERE'S DAVE - Houseguest of the Earth - Jane - 2013 Sky Lllama Duck Records
KATHY MOSER - Straw Clay Wood and Stone - Single - 2011
JOHN GORKA - Honeybee - Bright Side of Down - 2014 Red House Records
TODD BURGE with Kathy Mattea - Water Works - Imitation Life - 2015

Climate Change:
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2005
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Let's Go Swimming - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Sun and the Wind - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SUE and DWIGHT - Mercury Rising - Little Child Big World - 2008

Hard Times:
JONATHAN EDWARDS - Hard Times (Stephen Foster) - Tomorrow's Child - 2015 Rising Records 207
HEATHER PIERSON - The Hard Work of Living - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Tramp (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
JAN HAMMARLUND - Blues Street (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
THE BURNS SISTERS - Workhouse - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music
TIM GRIMM - Blame It on the Dog - The Turning Point - 2013

Labor:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's a Long Way to the Soup Line (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
REED FROMER - Downsized (Jon Fromer) - Looking for Freedom - 2015 PM Press
JAN HAMMARLUND - Upside Down (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2003
SI KAHN/SUE MASSEK - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister (Jim Garland) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records

Freedom and Justice:

JON FROMER - If You're Looking for Freedom - Looking for Freedom - 2015 PM Press
JACKSON BROWNE - Walls and Doors - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings
CRABTREE & MILLS - The Price of Freedom - Freedom - 2008 Free & Easy Music
JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009

JON FROMER - Harvest of My Soul (Reprise) - Looking for Freedom - 2015 PM Press

Playlist for 6/3/15

R.I.P. Jean Ritchie:
MOLLY ANDREWS - Now Is the Cool of the Day (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean -2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

Coal Mining Disasters:

JOHN McCUTCHEON et al - Black Waters (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
KRISTIN LEMS - The Heart of A Woman - 2015
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
SUSIE GLAZE - West Virginia Mine Disaster (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

Unions/Organize:

SUE MASSEK - Come All You Coal Miners (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Ghost of Joe Hill - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005

Aging:
CONNOR GARVEY - Real Old - Meteors and Beating Hearts - 2014
ELAINE ROMANELLI - 25 - The Hour Before - 2015
LON MILO DUQUETTE - Don't Write Me Off - Sweet Baba Lon - 2015 Ninety Three Records
TODD BURGE - Aches and Pains - Imitation Life - 2015
LEONARD COHEN - Stages - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music
WILLIE NELSON/MERLE HAGGARD - Live This Long - Django and Jimmie - 2015 Sony Music

Gun Culture:

LON MILO DUQUETTE - I'm Scared - Sweet Baba Lon - 2015 Ninety Three Records
VOICES - I Need a Gun (Matt Yanny-Tillar) - Step By Step - 1996
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Culture of Violence - Carry On - 2007 Talking Horse Music
MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004

Palestine/new CD from Dave Lippman:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Bricks from the Wall - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - Boycott Call Is Comin' (Andrew Kadi) - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - Academic Boycott Days- Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - Gaza's Ark - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015

Songs for the Spirit:

KELLY BOSWORTH - Worry Not - 2014
DAVEY O. - Man in Motion - No Passengers - 2014
FANNIE LOU HAMER - This Little Light of Mine - Songs My Mother Taught Me - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways
TROUT STEAK REVIVAL - Brighter Every Day - Brighter Every Day - 2015
PATRICK SYLVEST - Collard Greens - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Playlist for 5/27/15

Archbishop Romero canonized:
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Romero (Jolie Rickman) - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Coal Mining:
SUE MASSEK - Fair Ye Well Old Ely Branch (Aunt Molly Jackson) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
SUE MASSEK - That 25 Cents That You Paid (Jim Garland) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
SUE MASSEK - Only A Miner (Aunt Molly Jackson) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records

MEMORIAL DAY:
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
BOB BRADSHAW - Remember Me - Home - 2013 Fluke Records
LAURA ZUCKER - Memorial Day - A Step Ahead
TOM PAXTON - The Unknown - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
NELL ROBINSON - Poppies - The Rose of No-Man's Land - 2014
RUSTIC RIDERS - We Remember - Hearing Hearts - 2008
NATHAN BELL - Names - Blood Like a River - 2014
SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World - 2007
SPUYTEN DUYVIL - The Cruel War - The Social Music Hour, V I - 2015
MARE WAKEFIELD - About the War - Meant to Be - 2011 Maresie Music
SALLY SPRING - Boys in the Cornfield - Made of Stars - 2010 Sniffinpup Records
BEN BEDFORD - Fisher's Hill - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
BEN BEDFORD - Lincoln's Man - Lincoln's Man - 2008
PHARIS & JASON ROMERO - The Dying Soldier - A Wanderer I'll Stay - 2015 Lula Records
ANNE FEENEY - No Man's Land - Enchanted Way - 2010
LOKASHAKTI - We Regret to Inform You - Three Stories - 2010 Lokashakti Records
EMILY NYMAN - Give Me A Dream - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
AMY SPEACE - The Weight of the World - The Killer in Me - 2008 Wildflower Records
DONNA LYNN CASKEY - They Go On- Nameless Heart - 2014
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Home - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

Peace:
THE LEVINS - World of Peace - Trust - 2015
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

Monday, May 25, 2015

Playlist for 5/20/15

Happy Would-Be 90th Birthday (5/19/1925), Malcolm X:
MATTHEW JONES - As Above, So Below: Tribute to Malcolm X & Betty Shabazz - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change Malcolm X birthday 5/19 - would be 90 yrs old
DAVE DERSHAM - Betty's Ballad - The Burn of Summer - 2003
MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change
MAGPIE - Cry Carolina (Greg Artzner) - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Too Many Martyrs - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
MATTHEW & MARSHALL JONES - When I Was Young (Matthew Jones) - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Have Gone (Phil Ochs) - The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love (Greg Greenway) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013

SI KAHN & SUE MASSEK Interview with songs from the new CD, Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
SUE MASSEK - Dreadful Memories (Sarah Ogan Gunning)
SUE MASSEK - Come All You Coal Miners (Sarah Ogan Gunning)
SUE MASSEK - I Am A Traveling Creature
SUE MASSEK - Hello, Coal Miner (Sarah Ogan Gunning)
SUE MASSEK - I'm Going to Organize (Sarah Ogan Gunning)
SUE MASSEK - Down on the Picket Line (Sarah Ogan Gunning)

Songs from 2 new albums:
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Power in the Blood (Alabama 3/Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - We Are Circling - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Ke Sakihitin Awasis (I Love You, Baby) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
LEONARD COHEN - Never Gave Nobody Trouble - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music Leonard Cohen new album
LEONARD COHEN - Joan of Arc - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music
LEONARD COHEN - Stages - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Playlist for 5/13/15

COLLEEN KATTAU - Come with Me, Climb - The Living Years - 2013

Economy/Classism:
FINEST KIND - Song of the Lower Classes - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Working Class - Class - 2013
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - The Favor - Demo CD - 2012
LUCY BILLINGS - State of Blind - Carry the Water - 2014
MELISSA RUTH - Dusty Boxcar - Ain't No Whiskey - 2011 Who Said Music
JOHN GORKA - Ignorance & Privilege - So Dark You See - 2009
TERRY KITCHEN - Ninety-nine - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire
SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles - 2011

Corporations:
KEVIN ROBINS - Corporate Anorexia - 2010
COLLEEN KATTAU - Borderline - Sing It Down - 1996 A Two Story Production
DAVE LIPPMAN - Citizens United - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Citizens United - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011

Palestine - 5/14/1948 the Nakba:
DAVID ROVICS - The Key - Return - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Palestine - Return - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - I Wanna Go Home - Behind the Baricade: The Best of David Rovics 2003

Torture:
DAVID ROVICS - After We Torture Our Prisoners - For the Moment - 2005
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Rain - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
KEVIN SO - Letter from Guantanomo - Best Foot Forward - 2009
HARLEY STRING BAND - Guantanamo - Didn't Come to Stay Long - 2007

Fracking:
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - Ten New Songs - 2011
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire - Single - 2014
WOOL&GRANT - Get the Frack Outta Here - Wool&Grant - 2013 Ina May Wool and Bev Grant
LENNY SOLOMON - The Fracking Song - Under My Hat - 2014
THE BURNS SISTERS - Gas Man - The Hills of Ithaca - 2012 Sisters Music

CONNOR GARVEY - Monster - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

Playlist for 5/6/15

JAMES DURST - An Occasional Eagle - Wish I Were Here - 2014 WorldWind

Happy Mother's Day:
THE BURNS SISTERS - Mothers' Ode - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music
LYNN HOLLYFIELD - Mostly Wild - In the Balance - 2014
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - O Mother - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music
MARA LEVINE - The Sweetest Gift - Mara's Gems - 2008
JOHN SMITH - She Loved Flowers - The Longing Road - 2014 Blue Pine Music

Viet Nam War - ended 4/30/75:

ERIC BALKEY - Born in the USA - Everything Is Great - 2014 Hudson Harding Music
RAMBLIN JACK ELLIOTT - Drive On - The Rose of No-Man's Land - 2014
TOM PAXTON - Draft Dodger Rag - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records
ARLO GUTHRIE - I Ain't Marching Anymore - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records
JAY PSAROS - The Orphan - Single - 2013
COUNTRY JOE MacDONALD - Fixin' to Die Rag - Live at Woodstock - 1969
SCOTT AINSLIE - Rice Grows Again in Vietnam - The Feral Crow - 2004

Kent State Massacre - 5/4/70:
MAGPIE - Kent - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
DAVID ROVICS - Dead - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014

Hunger Strike - Bobby Sands 4/4/81, Francis Hughes 5/12/81:
DAVID ROVICS - Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands - Everything Can Change -2013
LARRY KIRWAN/BLACK 47 - Bobby Sands MP - Bittersweet Sixteen - 2006
MARY COURTNEY - 66 Days - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003
MARY COURTNEY - The Seeds of Freedom - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010

Gardens and Farms:
DAVID ROVICS - The More Gardens Song - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
ROWDY HOUSE - Family Farm - rowdyhousemusic.com - 2012
TOM CHAPIN - Farmer's Market Good - Give Peas a Chance - 2011 Sundance Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Farmer Is the Woman - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - Farmer's Market A-Z - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music

Song:
JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - 2014
STEVE CHIZMADIA - Find A Song - Jack of All Trades - 2012
SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Playlist for 4/29/15

SARAH PIRTLE - That Quiet Place - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Labor:
BEV GRANT - I Am A Sewing Machine - 2015
SUE MASSEK - Down On the Picket Line - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
DANA SIPOS - Night Sky - Roll Up the Night Sky - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Casey Jones - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
JOHN McCUTCHEON - There Is Power In A Union - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs

Racism in Sports:
CHUCK BRODSKY - The Handshake - Tell Tale Heart - 2015
PAUL KAPLAN - Welcome Home - 2014
TERRY KITCHEN - The Greatest Game They Never Played - That's How It Used to Be - 2004
TOM NEILSON - Fighting Whities - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005

Empire/Capitalism:
CHUCK BRODSKY - Not A Single Shot - Tell Tale Heart - 2015
TIMOTHY HILL - Don't Take It So Personally - Spirit's Body - 2004 Melihodos
SUE MASSEK - I Hate the Capitalist System - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
JACK HARDY - Empires- Noir - 2007
DAVE CROSSLAND - The Man Who Would Be King - Mother and Country - 2015

Aging:
TODD BURGE - Aches and Pains - Imitation Life - 2015
DYLAN SNEED - The Garden - Texodus - 2010
LUCY BILLINGS - What You Gonna Do? - Carry the Water - 2014
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - When This Old Hat Was New - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music

Death/AIDS:
MARTIN SWINGER - Red Ribbon - 2014
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Wooden Box - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
LUCY BILLINGS - The Here and Now - Carry the Water - 2014
SUE and DWIGHT - See the Little Baby - Little Child Big World - 2008
ELAINE ROMANELLI - The Year of Death - The Hour Before - 2015

Peace:
COLLEEN KATTAU - Word Bomber (Chumbawamba) - In My Name - 2012
JACK TEMPCHIN - Jesus and Mohammed - Room to Run - 2015 Blue Elan Records
COLLEEN KATTAU - Peace Loving Nation - In My Name - 2012

MYA BYRNE - Forgotten Dreams - As I Am - 2014

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Playlist for 4/22/15

Happy Earth Day:
LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005

Taxes:
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Don't Pay Taxes - Sparks and Tears 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Taxed Enough Already?! - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
TAYLOR FERRERA - Poll Tax - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - Ten New Songs - 2011
STEVE CHIZMADIA - The Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail -Out Blues - Jack of All Trades - 2012

Civil Rights - for Walter Scott, Eric Harris and Freddy Gray:
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - Single - 2013
MIKE & ALEXI GLICK - Living While Black - Two for the Blues - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Trayvon - Spies Are Reading My Blog - 2013
PAMELA MEANS - The Color of His Skin - 2014
DAVE LIPPMAN - Hands Up - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - His Hands Were in the Air - When I'm Elected President - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Watch Out for the Cops - Meanwile in Afghanistan - 2013

Phone interview with Elaine Romanelli - New CD:

ELAINE ROMANELLI - 25 - The Hour Before - 2015
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Real - The Hour Before - 2015
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Red Tail - The Hour Before - 2015
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Starting Over - The Hour Before - 2015
ELAINE ROMANELLI - Shine - The Hour Before - 2015

Labor - Strikes for fast food workers striking for $15 minimum wage:
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim - 2000
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
CHARLIE KING - Our Life Is More Than Our Work - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Fast food/Junk food:
CHRIS CHANDLER & ANNE FEENEY - Fast Food Confederacy - Flying Poetry Circus - 1993
ROWDY HOUSE - Pink Slime Burgers & Gov Cheese - Single - 2012
GRANT PEEPLES - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Okra and Ecclesiastes - 2011
TOM NEILSON - 5 Tons an Acre - Biomess - 2010

CARRIE FERGUSON - Beautiful World - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009

Playlist for 4/8/15

LYNN HOLLYFIELD - Spring- In the Balance - 2014
TODD BURGE - Time to Waste Time - Imitation Life - 2015

Casey Sheehan killed 4/4/04 in Iraq:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Cindy Sheehan - Haliburton Boardroom Massacre - 2005
DAVID ROTH - Ranch of All Compassion - Practice Makes Progress - 2008 Wind River Records
SARAH PIRTLE - Home for Dinner - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Media:
DAVID ROVICS - Spanish Journalist Strike - For the Moment - 2005
DAVE LIPPMAN - The Times They Aren’t A-Changin’ - Single - 2014
LYNNE TAYLOR - Walkout - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The News, The Blues and the People Take II - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID ROVICS - All the News That's Fit to Sing - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014
DEAN STEVENS - New World Order - Eyes of Wonder - 1993

Domestic Violence:

CAROLYN CURRIE - Red Hawk Rising - Echolocation - 2014
PAMELA MEANS - Pollack in Pink - Precedent - 2009 Phylorra Music
ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
VIKA BULL - Sweet Guy - The Merri Soul Sessions - 2014
GEOFF MORGAN - How Could I Hurt the Ones I Love - Finally Letting It Go - 1981 Flying Fish
JEREMY LYONS - Clouds on Her Face - Make It Better - 2014

Environment:
VIKA BULL - Smells Like Rain - The Merri Soul Sessions - 2014
ARO VENO - Water - Singing Clear - 2011 Colleen Kattau & Bev Grant
PAT LAMANNA - Banana - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012
DEAN STEVENS - Salmon River - Eyes of Wonder - 1993
TODD BURGE - Water Works - Imitation Life - 2015

Songs for the Spirit:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - I'm In - 2012
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Playlist for 4/1/15

HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records
PETE SEEGER - Maple Syrup Time - Seeds: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

Triangle Shirtwaist Factor Fire - 3/25/1911:
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Chains - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records
SI KAHN - Washington Square - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - We Were There! - 2002

Mining Disasters:
NEPTUNE'S CAR - A Blue Sky Turned to Rust - The 45th Parallel - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Laz'rus - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
PETE SEEGER - The Bells of Rhymney - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

Labor and Hard Times:
NEPTUNE'S CAR - River Street - The 45th Parallel - 2015
JON FROMER - Middle of the Night - We Do the Work
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - New Hard Time Blues - New Hard Time Blues -2011
TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MARGHI ALLEN - Freedom Train - Little Pieces of My Heart - 2014
PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - 3 Lefts - 2011
FINEST KIND - No More Fish, No Fishermen - Heart's Delight - 1999 Fallen Angel Music

Palestine:
DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002
DAVID ROVICS - Gaza- When I'm Elected President - 2014
PAT LAMANNA - David and Goliath - 2013 Single
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - No Home in Zion - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
DAVE LIPPMAN - Human Rights Man - Single 2014
PINK FLOYD - We Shall Overcome (Song for Gaza) - Single - 2010

Outlaws:
SIS CUNNINGHAM/MIKE MILLIUS/WES HOUSTON - Jesse James - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways
WOODY GUTHRIE - Billy the Kid - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways

Peace:
JON FROMER - One in the Number - We Do the Work
SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Playlist for 3/18/15

Happy St. Patrick's Day:
ANNE FEENEY - Irish Jokes - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records
LARRY KIRWAN - History of Ireland - Kilroy Was Here - 2001 Gadfly Records
LARRY KIRWAN - History of Ireland, Cont'd. - Kilroy Was Here - 2001 Gadfly Records
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
TONY DeSANTIS - Ballinamuck - Across the Border - 2008 Bright Sky, Ltd.

Irish Immigration:
MARY COURTNEY - Crasna na oConnca (Crossing the Waves) - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003
SI KAHN - Ireland of My Dreams - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
LEE MURDOCK - Kilkelly - What About the Water - 2014
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - Stor Mo Chroi - Pressed for Time - 2013
HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road- Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

Irish Resistance:
ANNE FEENEY - Arthur McBride - Enchanted Way - 2010
LARRY KIRWAN - Bobby Sands MP - youtube.com
MARY COURTNEY - 66 Days - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
AZTEC TWO-STEP - Remembrance Day -1987 - Cause & Effect - 2012 Red Engine Records

Prisons:
JOEL RAFAEL - Old Portland Town - Baladista - 2015 Inside Recordings
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Rain - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SI KAHN - Hutto - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
DAVID ROVICS - Deadhead in Prison - Live at Club Passim - 2000

Immigrant Labor:

JOEL RAFAEL - El Bracero - Baladista - 2015 Inside Recordings
JOE JENCKS - Bracero - Links in a Chain - 2009
ANI DiFRANCO - Deportee - Woody Guthrie at 100 - 2012 Legacy Recordings
WOODY GUTHRIE - Pastures of Plenty - Selections from Woody at 100 - 2012 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JON FROMER - We Do the Work- We Do the Work
TOM JURAVICH - Immigrants Like Me - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002

JACKSON BROWNE - Standing in the Breach - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Playlist for 3/11/15

ESTHER GOLTON - Stay Warm - Stay Warm - 2013
PADDY MILLS - When Spring Comes Around - 3 Lefts - 2011 Ormalnye Records

Civil Rights/50th Anniversary of Selma to Montgomery march:
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
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
MIKE MILLIUS - The Ballad of Martin Luther King
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS: LEN CHANDLER & TOM PAXTON - Carry It On
RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday

Nuclear Power Disasters:

DAVID ROVICS - Minami Sanriku - Ten New Songs - 2011
THE SWEET LOWDOWN - Fallout- Chasing the Sun - 2014
BARBARA & GRAHAM DEAN - Chernobyl - Nuclear Power - 2004
TOM NEILSON - Just A Little Meltdown - Fools No More - 2006
ANNE FEENEY - Take Them Down - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

The Dust Bowl:
HARLEY STRING BAND - Rain Follows the Plow - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
KEVIN DUDLEY - Indian Joe - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
STEVE COFFEE - Black Sunday - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
THE GLIMPSES - If It Rains - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
JIM JOHNSON - Mary Can't Come Out to Play - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
STEVE COFFEE - Duster #99 - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler

War:

PHARIS & JASON ROMERO - The Dying Soldier - A Wanderer I'll Stay - 2015 Lula Records
SPUYTEN DUYVIL - The Cruel War - The Social Music Hour, V I - 2015
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Cost of War - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records

Olden Days:
NORMAN BLAKE - Grady Forester's Store & Cotton Gin - Wood, Wire & Words - 2015
LOUISE MOSRIE - Backroads - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
TIM GRIMM - Better Days - Farm Songs - 2009

Playlist for 3/4/15

MOORS & McCUMBER - My Heart Is Open - Pandemonium - 2014

Women:
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Women Walking Wearing Wings - If You're Drunk, You Cannot Buy a Puppy - 2015
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Real Woman - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
LISA MARTIN - Superwoman - Set Me on Fire - 2001 Red Lion Records
FRICTION FARM - Raise Your Hand - I Read Your Book - 2013

Hunger Strike:
LARRY KIRWAN - Bobby Sands MP - youtube.com
DAVID ROVICS - Khader Adnan - Everything Can Change - 2013
MARY COURTNEY - The Seeds of Freedom - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos - Troubador - 2010

Banksters:

WOODY GUTHRIE - Jolly Banker - Woody at 100 - 2012 Smithsonian Folkways
CHERYL WHEELER - We're the Bank - Live - 2012 DIAS Records
DAVID ROVICS - Stay Right Here - 2011
JACKSON BROWNE - Which Side? - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings
DAVE LIPPMAN - Geithner Fit the Battle - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
AUSTERITY ALLSTARS - Bugger the Bankers - 2012
DISAPPEAR FEAR - The Banker - Broken Film - 2013 Sonia Rutstein

Change:
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Grow Up and Change the World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Change - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Rise - The Twangtown Paramours - 2010 Inside Edge Records
SCOTT COOK - New Grist - One More Time Around - 2013

Palestine:
AMBASSADOR - Free Palestine - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013
JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002
MASAKHABIBI - Palestine Song فلسطين أغنية - Single - 2010
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - No Home in Zion - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014

Peace:

JEAN RITCHIE and Friends - The Peace Round - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

Playlist for 2/18/15

Happy Valentine's Day:
LORETTA HAGEN - Mighty Winter - Sundown Till Dawn - 2008
JEREMY LYONS - I Don't Mind the Rain - Make It Better - 2014
JOE JENCKS - The Sweetest of Rose - The Candle and the Flame - 2007
ERIK BALKEY - Love It Ain't Easy - Everything Is Great - 2012 Hudson Harding
HEALY & JURAVICH - Great Chazy River - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006
DAVID ROVICS - Lakes of Pontchartrane - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014

Immigration:
SI KAHN - Mother Jones' Farewell to Ireland - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Records
ANNE FEENEY - Kilkelly - Enchanted Way - 2010
THE BURNS SISTERS - Clare to Here - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music
HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road- Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - Stor Mo Chroi - Pressed for Time - 2013

Hard Times:
THE BURNS SISTERS - Workhouse - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - New Hard Time Blues - New Hard Time Blues -2011
SUE and DWIGHT - See the Little Baby - Little Child Big World - 2008
MARGHI ALLEN - Freedom Train - Little Pieces of My Heart - 2014
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hard Times Come Again No More - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998

Labor/Coal Mining:

ANNE FEENEY - School Days End - Enchanted Way - 2010
STEVE SUFFET -- Three Foot Seam - I've Been Up on the Mountain - 2007
JENI & BILLY - Land of the Pharaohs - Jewell Ridge Coal - 2008
MICHELLE DALZIEL - The Mine - Mission Street Project/Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Laz'rus - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.

War:

DAVID ROVICS - From Kabul to Khartoum - Living in These Times - 2001
DAVID ROVICS - Comets of Kandahar - Everything Can Change -2013
ANNE FEENEY - No Man's Land - Enchanted Way - 2010

Corporations:
JOHN & SHEILA LUDGATE - Bobblehead Boogie (The Yes Man Song) - Two, Three, Four...- 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Corporations Are People Too - Everything Can Change - 2013
TOM NEILSON - Corporations Are Human - Between the Rivers - 2011

BOBTOWN - Stitch in Time - A History of Ghosts - 2014

Playlist for 1/28/15

MARA LEVINE - Raise the Dead of Wintertime - Mara's Gems - 2008
TIM GRIMM - Heart of the Winter - Farm Songs - 2009

Cuba:
DAVID ROVICS - Playa Giron - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Vasili - Into A Prism - 2013
SILVIO RODRIGUEZ - Sueno con Serpientes - 1975
KAREN BRANDOW - Pequena Serenata Diurna - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Domestic Violence:

PAMELA MEANS - Pollack in Pink - Precedent - 2009 Phylorra Music
FACES OF EVE/Celeste & Rebecca - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008
BETH DeSOBRE - How I Got to Jackson - Crooked Highways - 2007
PAT HUMPHRIES - Jamie - Same Rain - 1992 Moving Forward Music
ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
COLLEEN KATTAU - We Will Take It Back - Inhabited Woman - 2007
HEATHER PIERSON - I'll Never Know Freedom Again - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings

The Civil War:
BEN BEDFORD - Lincoln's Man - Lincoln's Man - 2008
JACK WILLIAMS - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records
LOUISE MOSRIE - Leave Your Gun - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
SALLY SPRING - Boys in the Cornfield - Made of Stars - 2010 Sniffinpup Records
BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

Media:
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The News, The Blues and the People Take II - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
JAY MANKITA - They Lied - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004
LYNNE TAYLOR - Walkout - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - All the News That's Fit to Sing - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014

Songs for the Spirit:

SUE KRANZ & BEN TOUSLEY - Take Heart - Take Heart - 2012
CONNOR GARVEY - Meteor - Meteors and Beating Hearts - 2014

Playlist for 1/21/15

JACK HARDY - Winter Sunlight - Noir - 2007
GWYNETH MORELAND - Slaughterhouse Gulch - Ceilings, Floors and Open Doors - 2014

Homelessness/Hard Times:

LENNY SOLOMON - Spare Change - Maybe Today - 2007
FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Somebody's Child - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013
JACK WILLIAMS - Sleeping in the Streets - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records

Labor/Mills:
JACK HARDY - Uley Mill Song - Noir - 2007
SI KAHN - Cotton Mill Blues - Threads - 2002 Double Time Music
WINTERGREEN - Snow in Paradise - Old Songs and New - 2005
DEB & DAVE COWAN - The Weaver & the Factory Maid - A Dram for the Singer - 1997
HEDY WEST with Pete Seeger on banjo - Cotton Mill Girls - Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest

Olden Days:

GENE MORRISON - Muzzy's Store - Looking Back - 2010 Listen Here Records
TERRY KITCHEN - That's How It Used to Be - That's How It Used to Be - 2004
JAMES LEE STANLEY - The World We Left Behind - The Eternal Contradiction - 2007
TIM GRIMM - Family History - The Turning Point - 2013

Slavery:

MARIENNE KREITLOW - Motherless Child - Like Noah's Dove - 2014 Living Song
PATRICK SYLVEST - Ode to Rans McGaskey - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - No More Auction Block - Steal Away - Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Harriet Tubman/Steal Away - Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Free At Last - Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings

Obama and Bombing:
DAVID ROVICS - Four More Years - Everything Can Change - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Barack Obama - Into A Prism - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Has the Bombing Begun - Spies Are Reading My Blog - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Terrorist in Chief - When I'm Elected President - 2014

Hope:
ERIN THOMAS - Beautiful - You Don't Know Me - 2012
TIM GRIMM - The Tree - The Turning Point - 2013

Monday, January 19, 2015

Playlist for 1/14/15

Winter:
ANNIE LOU - Winter Song - Grandma's Rules for Drinking - 2012
ANNE FEENEY - Winter Go Away! - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records

Resistance and Solidarity:

LIBBY RODERICK - Cradle of Dawn - How Could Anyone - 2005
HARPETH RISING - The Sparrow - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013 Grimm Rising
JACKSON BROWNE - Which Side? - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings
KRISTEN GRAVES - Folk Army - Now Ain't the Time for Tears - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Bella Ciao - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014
ANNE FEENEY - Which Side Are You On? - Union Maid - 2003
ALIZA HAVA - Rise - Rise - 2006 FireMusicFaerie Productions

War (those left behind):

DONNA LYNN CASKEY - They Go On- Nameless Heart - 2014
RED MOLLY - With a Memory Like Mine - The Red Album - 2014
LOKASHAKTI - We Regret to Inform You - Three Stories - 2010 Lokashakti Records
THE MAMMALS - Alone on the Homestead - Departure - 2006 Humble Abode Music
AMY SPEACE - The Weight of the World - The Killer in Me - 2008 Wildflower Records

Politics:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Vote Republican - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
TAYLOR FERRERA - Poll Tax - 2012
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Taxed Enough Already?! - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROVICS - Whoever Wins in November - For the Moment - 2005
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010

Outlaws:

MATTHEW HORNELL - Relief - Have It All - 2013
RED MOLLY - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - The Red Album - 2014
DOUG SPEARS - Yellow Butter Moon - Welcome Home - 2009
DAVID GRISMAN et al - Pancho & Lefty - Old & in the Gray - 2002 Acoustic Disc
DAVID ROVICS - Pirates in Somalia - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

Development/Sprawl:

BEN & ELLEN HARPER - City of Dreams - Childhood Home - 2014
JACKIE MORRIS - China Blue - Money to Burn - 2008 Button Box

LEONARD COHEN - Hallelujah - Songs from the Road - 2010 Sony Music

Friday, January 9, 2015

Playlist for 1/7/15

Happy New Year:
THE COPPER PONIES & JOE CROOKSTON - It's A New Year Now - Hudson Harding Sampler, Vol. 7 - 2012
FRED ARCOLEO with Amy Soucy - NEW YEARS - Hudson Harding Sampler, Vol. 7 - 2012
MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO- Oh Winter - Laughter Out of Tears - 2013

Power of Song and Solidarity:

SALLY BARRIS/CLIFF EBERHARDT/LOUISE MOSRIE - With One Voice One Guitar - 2014
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006
NEAL & LEANDRA - One - A Hundred Years from Now - 2012 Uncle Gus Music
SCOTT COOK - Song for the Slow Dancers - Moonlit Rambles - 2011
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - A Silly Little Song - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
THE STRAY BIRDS - Best Medicine - Best Medicine Promo Copy - 2015
ROY ZIMMERMAN - I'm In - 2012

Environment - Climate Change:

TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012
LENNY SOLOMON - Global Warming Blues - Armando's Pie - 2004
LEEANN ATHERTON, KELLEY CORWIN, LAURA ASHWORTH - Global Warming of the Heart - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Let's Go Swimming - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Sun and the Wind - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MAGPIE - Power of the Wind - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records

Greed:
JACKSON BROWNE - If I Could Be Anywhere - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings
SPUYTEN DUYVIL - Scratch - Temptation - 2013
ARI & MIA - Hymn - Land on Shore - 2013
EDDIE VEDDER - Society - Into the Wild - 2007 J Records
DAVE DERSHAM - More, More, More - The Burn of Summer - 2003
ELISE WITT - Blessed Nation - Valise - 2009

Surveillance:
JACK WARSHAW - Snoopers - Single - 2014
PETER CHIYKOWSKI - Hello NSA (A Love Song of Mass Surveillance) - Single - 2014
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Hello, NSA - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
DAVID ROVICS - Spies Are Reading My Blog - Spies Are Reading My Blog - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Prism - Into A Prism - 2013
DARK & STORMY - My Country Right or Wrong - Along the Way - 2008 Narragansett Songs

JOE CROOKSTON - Out on the Run - Georgia I'm Here - 2014