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