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