Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Playlist for 1/18/17

MARTIN LUTHER KING:
BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love - Some Part of the Truth - 2013
FRICTION FARM - Birmingham - Every Mile Is a Memory - 2010 Aidan Quinn & Christine Stay
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA - Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks - Big Round World
ERIC BALKEY - Atticus Taught Me - 2012 Single
GEOFF BARTLEY - Litany for January 15 (Chip Quinn) - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012

Women's March:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Real Woman - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - Sadila Jana - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music
KRISTIN LEMS - The Heart of A Woman - You, Me, and All of the Above - 2015 Carolsdatter Prods.
BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming - 2003
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Supershero - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006

Sheros:
SARA THOMSEN - The Ballad of Molly Ivins - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgotten - 22 Days - 2013 Appalsongs
DAVID ROTH - Women Planting Trees - So Far, So Good - 2015
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003
WOOL&GRANT – Janis (Ina May Wool) - Wool&Grant - 2013

Whistleblowers:

RACHAEL KILGOUR - Whistleblower - Whistleblower's Manifesto: Songs for a New Revolution - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Chelsea Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011
DAVID NEAL - Bradley Manning - 2012 dissenter.firedoglake.com
GRAHAM NASH & JAMES RAYMOND - Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning) - 2011

Health Care:
SILAS LOWE - Poor People's Doctor - Wandering Father Forgotten Son - 2016
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
DAVID ROTH - Energy Medicine - So Far, So Good - 2015

Poverty:
NORMAN BLAKE - High Rollers - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017
SOFIA TALVIK - Cold Cold Feet - 2015
KAIA KATER - Paradise Fell - Nine Pin - 2016
DAVID ROTH - Goodness Is More Than a Dream - So Far, So Good - 2015

PUTNAM SMITH - Let's Give A Damn - 99 Desires - 2016

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Playlist for 1/11/17

Slavery:
LOUISE MOSRIE - When Cotton Was King - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Harriet Tubman (Walter Robinson) - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder Record
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Follow the Drinking Gourd - Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
KAIA KATER - Nine Pin - Nine Pin – 2016
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More - 2006

Racism:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Battle of Maxton Field - Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth - 1967
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - That Kind of Grace - Rhubarb Trees - 2011
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records

Corporate Greed:

STEVE SUFFET - Were You in Boston in 1919? - Folksinger's Fancy - 2008
JAN HAMMARLUND - Free Enterprise (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
RICHARD SHINDELL - Atlas Choking - Careless - 2016
KEVIN ROBINS - Corporate Anorexia - 2010
DAVE GUNNING - This Changin' Wind (Dave Gunning/Ray Stewart) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music

Live Interview with Chris Brashear and Ben Demarath
CHRIS BRASHEAR & BEN DEMARATH – Across the Great Divide (Kate Wolff)
CHRIS BRASHEAR – The Little Boy Loser

Inclusion:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Y'all Means All - Trolling for Dreams - 2017
CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - Who's Gonna Build That Wall - 2016
DONNA LYNN CASKEY - Worthy - Nameless Heart - 2014
LIBBY RODERICK - How Could Anyone - How Could Anyone - 2005

Stand Up/Speak Out:

CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Stand Up (Mike Stern) - Sparks and Tears 2003 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
BROTHER SUN – Mighty Long Way – Weights & Wings - 2016
COLVIN & EARLE - Tell Moses - 2016

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Three Chords and the Truth - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Playlist for 1/4/17

Happy New Year:
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - Happy New Year - Tears and Laughter -2016
FRED ARCOLEO with Amy Soucy – New Years – Happy Holidays, Vol. 7 – 2012 Hudson Harding Music
THE COPPER PONIES & JOE CROOKSTON - It's A New Year Now - Happy Holidays, Vol. 7 - 2012 Hudson Harding Music
THE PAPERBOYS - Better Than the Last - At Peace with One's Ghosts - 2015

War (Power & Greed):
MATTHEW OLWELL - By the Hush, Me Boys - CyberTrad - 2016
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - War for Sale - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Blood for Oil - Be for Real - 1996
RICH EILBERT - Ocean of Sand - Back from the War - 2009
ANNE FEENEY - Shell Game - If I Can't Dance - 2006

Freedom:
PHIL OCHS - Power and the Glory - All The News That's Fit To Sing - 1964 Elektra
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
TAINA ASILI - Freedom - 2016
JON FROMER - Still Looking for Freedom - We Do the Work - 1999
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND - If I Had a Hammer(Pete Seeger/Lee Hays) - Deep Waters - 2016

Justice:
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - We Built This City - Not Alone – 2012
JOHN GORKA - Ignorance & Privilege - So Dark You See - 2009
CLINT ALPHIN - Blessed Are the Rich - Post Modern Man - 2015
APARNA LAKSHMI - Can I Get a Witness - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011
DAVE GUNNING - I Robbed the Company Store - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009

Immigration:
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
DAVID ROVICS - Before Their Ship Arrived-Spies Are Reading My Blog-2013
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Immigrant - Supper's On the Table - 2005 Appalsongs
DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Environment:

MOLLY SCOTT - We Are All One Planet - Songs of Peace, Protest, and Spirit - 2015 David Fersh
JOHN SMITH - This Field - The Longing Road - 2014 Blue Pine Music
CARRIE FERGUSON - Beautiful World - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009

GREENFIELD HARMONY, Mary Cay Brass, Dir. - Aulde Lang Syne - Live Concert - 2011