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