Monday, May 30, 2016

Playlist for 5/25/16

JOE CROOKSTON - I Sing - Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee - 2011

Perspectives:
JOE CROOKSTON - Good Luck John - Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee - 2011
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Creation Science - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
JAY MANKITA - From A Dog's Stance - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010
JAMES DURST - I Wish You Good Evening - Wish I Were Here - 2014 WorldWind

The Media:

DAVID ROTH - No Apologies - Practice Makes Progress - 2008 Wind River Records
JAY MANKITA - They Lied - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004
DAVE LIPPMAN - The Times They Aren’t A-Changin’ - Single - 2014
TOM NEILSON - That Was the Week (Dan Hart/Tom Neilson) - Spirit of Justice - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - Who Will Tell the People - Living in these Times - 2001

Palestine:
DAVID ROTH - Ahmed Al-Khatib - Practice Makes Progress - 2008 Wind River Records
MASAKHABIBI - Palestine Song فلسطين أغنية - Single - 2010
AMBASSADOR - Free Palestine - Single - 2014
PINK FLOYD - We Shall Overcome (Song for Gaza) - Single - 2010
SCOTT MacFARLANE, DAVIDSON, COBAIN - Ship of Hope - 2012 gazaark.org

Horror of War:

JIM PAGE - Collateral Damage - Collateral Damage - 2002
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Cost of War - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
BEN BEDFORD - Fisher's Hill - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
SARA THOMSEN - Shattered Gardens - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Memorial Day:
LAURA ZUCKER - Memorial Day - A Step Ahead
JON BROOKS - In Flanders Fields - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World - 2007
DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Playlist for 5/18/16

PAT HUMPHRIES – It Really Isn't Garbage - Same Rain - 1992 Moving Forward Music

LGBT - Gay Pride:
ARJUNA GREIST - Normal Is - Odd Numbers - 2003
LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs
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

Discrimination:
AMY WHITE - Love Among the Ruins - Didn't We Waltz - 2016 Fairewood Studios
COLLEEN KATTAU - Winter Came Early - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
DAVID ROVICS - Ballad of Cece McDonald - The Other Side - 2015
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

Civil Rights Movement:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Too Many Martyrs (Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson) - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
The Freedom Singers - We'll Never Turn Back (Bertha Gober) - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
Phil Ochs - Freedom Riders - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus (Words: Carver Neblett) - The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
JON FROMER - My Feet Are Tired - We Do the Work

Interview Art Steele and John Coster – Pioneer Valley Musician's Emergency Fund

Health Care:

TOM NEILSON - In A Public Place - In A Public Place – 1991
LINQ - What Happened to the Care - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Dear Number 10369924053887 - Thanks for the Support - 2008 Metaphor Records

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Playlist for 5/11/16

HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records

What's Wrong:
DAVE MURPHY - Brooklyn Street - American Landscape - 2016 Phoenix Night
DAVE GUNNING - They Don't Do That No More (Dave Gunning/Jim Dorie) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
POST NUCLEAR TRASH - Last Chance Avenue - 2010
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Not Me - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs
DAVE GUNNING - This Changin' Wind (Dave Gunning/Ray Stewart) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music

Nostalgia for Olden Days:

DAVE MURPHY - Rochester - American Landscape - 2016 Phoenix Night
JOHN PRINE - Grandpa Was a Carpenter - The Best of John Prine - 1978 Atlantic Recording Corp.
DAVE GUNNING - A Tractor - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
DAVE GUNNING - Breaker's Yard (Dave Gunning/Jamie Robinson) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
TERRY KITCHEN - That's How It Used to Be - That's How It Used to Be - 2004

Addiction:
LINQ - Addicted to Drugs - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music
DAVE MURPHY - You and Morphine - American Landscape - 2016 Phoenix Night
BILLY MITCHELL - Prescription Drugs - Detour - 2011
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Who's the Pusher Now? - Single - 2012

Justice/Corporate Lies:

DAVE GUNNING - I Robbed the Company Store - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Pennsylvania Miner - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
JAN HAMMARLUND - Free Enterprise (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009

Stand Up and Speak Out:

DAVE GUNNING - Sing It Louder (Dave Gunning/Sally Spring) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
ANNE FEENEY - The Men Behind the Wire (P. McGuigan) - Enchanted Way – 2010
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts at Home - 2005

YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - Little Birdie - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music
YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - Ichichila - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music

Monday, May 9, 2016

Playlist for 5/4/16

May Day:
ANNE FEENEY - The Internationale (Pottier/Degeyter) - Jail for Justice - 2000
SI KAHN - Mother Jones' Farewell (I Was There) - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005
TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union (Billy Bragg) - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
DAVID ROVICS - Solidarity Forever (Ralph Chaplin) - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014

Labor Strikes:
CHARLIE KING - Bring Back the Eight Hour Day - So Far…So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
ANNE FEENEY - Whatever Happened to the Eight Hour Day? - Union Maid - 2003
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002
BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones on the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music

Assassinations/Kent State 5/4/1970:
MAGPIE - Kent - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
DAVID ROVICS - Dead - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014
BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love (Greg Greenway) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013
JOHN COSTER - Lost in America - Lost Horizon - 2013
DAVE DERSHAM - Betty's Ballad - The Burn of Summer - 2003
LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005

Resistance:
DAR WILLIAMS - I Had No Right - The Green World - 2000 Razor & Tie
OTTER CREEK - Bidder 70 - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
MARC BLACK - Sometime A Spark - Sometime A Spark – 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Berkshire Hills - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Romero (Jolie Rickman) - Higher Ground - 2008 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Mother's Day:
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - O Mother - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music
MARA LEVINE - The Sweetest Gift (James B. Coates) - Mara's Gems - 2008
LYNN HOLLYFIELD - Mostly Wild - In the Balance - 2014
THE BURNS SISTERS - Mothers' Ode - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music

New CD:
YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - Green (Vincent's Tune) - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music
YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - O'Neill's Cavalry March - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music

Playlist for 4/27/16

SARA THOMSEN - Metamorphosis - Everything Changes - 2008

Nuclear Power:
TOM NEILSON - Hot Frogs on the Loose - Dancin' Shoes - 1997
THE SWEET LOWDOWN - Fallout- Chasing the Sun - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Minami Sanriku - Ten New Songs - 2011
TOM NEILSON - Just A Little Meltdown - Fools No More - 2006

War - Iraq:
DAVID ROVICS - If I Had a Hammer - Spies Are Reading My Blog - 2013
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free – 2006
NELL ROBINSON - Heroes (Jeremy Campbell/Ray Stephenson/Guy Clark) - The Rose of No-Man's Land – 2014
THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw – 2007
JOHN McCUTCHEON - We Know War - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Prods.

Racism:
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - 2013
GENERATIONS - Living While Black - Two for the Blues - 2016
BEN BEDFORD - Blood on Missouri - The Pilot and the Flying Machine – 2016
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Old Songs for Modern Folk - 2016
J COLE - Be Free - Single – 2014

Classism:
ARLO GUTHRIE with the Dillards – DoReMi (Woody Guthrie) - Thirty-two Cents - 2008 Rising Son Records
JACK WARSHAW - No Country for Poor People - Single - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - We Have Fed You All for A Thousand Years - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014
EVAN GREER - Their Days Are Numbered - 2011
MANKANA - We Are The Many - 2011

Immigration:
BEN BEDFORD - The Voyage of John and Emma - The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016
SARA THOMSEN - Amber Stone - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
JESSE PALIDOFSKY - I Am An Immigrant - 2015
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman – 2006

Earth Day:
BEN BEDFORD - The Fox - The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016
SARA THOMSEN - Earth Moves in a Mysterious Way - Winter Wanderings - 2012