Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Playlist for 12/19/18

Happy Holidays:                                                                                                                       CHRISTINE LAVIN - Oy to the World - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
RICH KRUEGER - It's That Time Again - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
FRICTION FARM - A Fine Christmas Present - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
MARK STEPAKOFF - Santa & Elvis - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
ROB SIEGEL - I Made My Peace with Christmas - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
DAVE FRYE – Cool Yule – The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
Winter Solstice:
ERIC GERBER – Solstice Blues - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
CROWE'S PASTURE - A Hazy Shade of Winter (Paul Simon) - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
KATHERINE RONDEAU - Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell) - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
KIM MOBERG - In December - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
ANDY & JUDY - Take Back the Winter - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
Homelessness:
MEGHAN CARY - Christmas Through My Eyes - Single - 2018
CHUCK WILLIAMS - Lonely People - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Caught Between the Times - Parts & Labor - 2014
TOM PAXTON - Christmas in the Shelter - Boat in the Water - 2017
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records
Immigration:
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josselline - New Hard Time Blues – 2011
DAVID ROVICS - Upon Our Shores - Single - 2015
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
JOEL RAFAEL - Sierra Blanca Massacre - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - What Would Jesus Do? - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
Equality/Diversity:
CARLA GOVER & ZOEY BARRETT - Snowflake - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music
BEV GRANT - DeColores - We Were There! - 2002
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Am You (Anne Hills & Michael Smith) - Rhubarb Trees – 2011
JOHN SHELDON - The Same Water - Single
Peace:
SONIA/disappear fear - Imagine (John Lennon) - Live at Maximal - 2016
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Playlist for 11/21/18

Thanksgiving:                                                                                                                                       SI KAHN - Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving - 2007 Strictly Country Records
THE LUCKY SISTERS - Grateful (David Francey) - So Lucky - 2015 Patio Records
ERIC GERBER - Mama Lou (Jack Williams) - Three – 2017
SWAMP BROTHERS - Food on the Table - The Tennessee Sessions - 2015 Itchy Sabot Records
ELIZA GILKYSON - Secularia - Secularia – 2018
Values/Consumerism:
ROD MacDONALD - Black Friday - 3 New Songs 11-17
AMY MARTIN - Rose of Sharon - Partake - 2005
GRANT PEEPLES - Treason Is the Reason - A Congress of Treasons - 2016
ARI & MIA - Hymn - Land on Shore - 2013
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Oh America - Hearts at Home – 2005
War:
SI KAHN - First Time at a War - Thanksgiving - 2007
MARION HALLIDAY - Lost Things - Walking in Tall Grass – 2017
ANNA DAGMAR - We Were Children - Satellite - 2012
STORYHILL - Better Angels - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records
BEN BEDFORD - Virginia Girls - Lincoln's Man - 2008 Hopeful Sky Records
Native American/Genocide:
JIM PAGE - Song for Leonard Peltier - Ghost Bikes - 2010
MARION HALLIDAY - If Statues Could Speak - If Statues Could Speak - 2018
NEPTUNE'S CAR - A Blue Sky Turned to Rust - The 45th Parallel - 2015
TIM GRIMM - Sam's Song - The Back Fields - 2005
JON BROOKS - Sgt. Tommy Prince - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
Lost Farms:
HANNAH BINGMAN – Deep Water - Loam - 2018
STILL ON THE HILL - Granny Henderson - Still A River - 2016
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
Hard Times:
HANNAH BINGMAN - Hard Times, Our Times - Loam - 2018
DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998

Playlist for 11/14/18

DAVID DODSON - Life Goes On - Life Goes On - 2017
Politics/Bye-bye Jeff Sessions:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Pixie Man - Rize Up - 2018
SAM STEFFEN - Words, Words, Words - Words, Words, Words - 2018
JOE CAMUGLIA - Lady Liberty - Folksinger Eclipse - 2017
PAT WICTOR & DEBORAH LATZ – Lincoln Park (Phil Ochs) – Counterpoise - 2018 Duology Records
THE LUCKY NOWS - Rise - Rise - 2018 Blind Justice Music
Immigration/Refugees:
THE LUCKY NOWS - Borders - Rise - 2018 Blind Justice Music
SAM STEFFEN - Wyy, mama? - Words, Words, Words - 2018Wyy, mama?
CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - Who's Gonna Build That Wall - Single - 2016
DON CARON - The Battle of the Wall - Single - 2018 The Parody Project
BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013
Veterans Day:
THE LUCKY NOWS - Goodnight - Rise - 2018 Blind Justice Music
JON BROOKS - Tajik Boy - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
ARLON BENNETT - Bandana Man - Summer's Voice - 2007 Red Sea Records
Aging:
THE BLACK FEATHERS - The Ghosts Have Eaten Well - Demo - 2018
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - When This Old Hat Was New - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music
CONNOR GARVEY - Real Old - Meteors and Beating Hearts - 2014
ANNE FEENEY - The Dutchman (Michael Smith) - Enchanted Way - 2010
LEONARD COHEN - Stages - Can't Forget - 2013 Sony Music
Courage/Hope:
TELLICO - Courage for the Morning - Woven Waters - 2018
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Every Day - Legacy of Love - 2017
THE BLACK FEATHERS - Holy Water - Demo - 2018
SUE HOROWITZ - There Is Hope - Notes from the Garrison – 2016

Playlist for 11/7/18

Hope/Change:                                                                                                                                   ROY ZIMMERMAN - Hope, Struggle and Change - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1 – 2012
JOHN GORKA – Particle and Wave – Single – 2018
KEN WHITELEY - The Moment We've Been Waiting For - KEN WHITELEY & the Beulah Band - 2015
YOUNG and RUSTY – Boats to Build (Guy Clark/Verlon Thompson) – Come Back Coming On – 2017
Community:
LAURA ZUCKER - What Are We For - Say Yes - 2017
KATHERINE RHODA - Bright Morning Stars - Songs of Freedom, Struggle and Spirit -2009
TRET FURE - In This Circle - Roses in Novermber – 2018
ROB McHALE - Common Ground - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018
MARTIN SWINGER - Last Cup of Community - Living Things - 2018
Stand Up:
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
THE LUCKY SISTERS - These Hands (Dave Gunning) - So Lucky - 2015 Patio Records
DAVE GUNNING - Sing It Louder (Dave Gunning/Sally Spring) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music
3HATTRIO - Get Up Stand Up - Solitaire - 2016
BEV GRANT - National Anthem: Arise! Arise! (Jean Rohe) - It's Personal - 2017
Peace:
PETER MAYER - Looking for the Dove - Midwinter – 2005
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Stand for Love - Rhubarb Trees – 2011
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Windows of the Heart (Live PMN Concert) - Standing Our Ground - 2006 Diane Crowe
Spiritual:
PETER MAYER - All the World Is One - Heaven Below - 2010
NANCY CASSIDY - One Star - River's Rising - 2018 Twitter Twatter Music
DAVID ROTH – I Surrender (David Roth/Karen Drucker/Faith Rivera)– Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Closer to the Light (Jim Beloff) - Shout and Shine - 2018
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
Song:
HEATHER PIERSON - Singin' - Singin' - 2017
LOUISE MOSRIE - Singing My Heart Out - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Sing People Sing - Revolution Now - 2017
THE MALVINAS - How Can I Keep from Singing - God Bless the Grass – 2017

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Playlist for 10/24/18

PADDY MILLS - It's Getting Cold - The Good Life - 2016
Spiritual:
DAVID ROTH – I Surrender (David Roth/Karen Drucker/Faith Rivera)– Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
NANCY CASSIDY - One Star - River's Rising - 2018 Twitter Twatter Music
AUSTIN & ELLIOTT - All God's Children - 13 Songs Plus - 2015
MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Closer to God - Time to Fly – 2018
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Closer to the Light (Jim Beloff) - Shout and Shine - 2018
Genocide:
DAVID ROTH – Trail of Tears (David Roth/Freebo) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
SARA THOMSEN - Halabja - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
KARINE POLWART - The Terror Time (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records
HARPETH RISING - Well Hell - Shifted - 2015 Grimm Rising
Terrorism/Mass Shootings:
ANDY & JUDY - Another Senseless Tragedy - Reflections - 2018
ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
RACHAEL SAGE - Disarm Distrust (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017
ABBIE GARDNER - I Can't Believe - Wishes on a Neon Sign – 2018
CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me-1997
Women/GenderStereotypes:
ANDY & JUDY - Do Something With Your Hair- Reflections - 2018
SLOAN WAINWRIGHT - Thinking Outside of the Box - Bright Side of A Rainy Day – 2016
Sara Thomsen - Renaissance Woman - Somewhere To Begin - 2014
BEV GRANT - Throw Me the Ball - It's Personal - 2017
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be An Engineer - Three Score and Ten - 2007 Appleseed Recordings
Stand Up/Change the World:
ANDY & JUDY - Turn Off the Noise - Reflections - 2018
THE STRAY BIRDS - Hands of Man - Magic Fire - 2016
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Principle - Supper's on the Table - 2001 Rounder Records
CRYS MATTHEWS - American History XIX - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Sing People Sing - Revolution Now – 2017
Songs for the Spirit:
DAVID ROTH – Last Day on this Earth – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
NANCY CASSIDY - River's Rising - River's Rising - 2018 Twitter Twatter Music
NANCY CASSIDY - We'll Float On the Water - River's Rising - 2018 Twitter Twatter Music
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES – I'm Happy Every Day I Live - Shout and Shine – 2018

Playlist for 10/17/18

TROUT STEAK REVIVAL - Fall at Your Feet - Spirit to the Sea - 2017
Newly Received CDs:
ROBINSON & ROHE - Hunger - Hunger - 2017
ROBINSON & ROHE - For A Moment - Hunger - 2017
JEAN ROHE - Water - The End of the World Show - 2013
JEAN ROHE - No Work - The End of the World Show - 2013

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Drain the Swamp - Rize Up - 2018
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Rize Up - Rize Up - 2018
ROY ZIMMERMAN - You Can't Unring That Bell - Rize Up - 2018

HOUSE OF HAMMIL - Pound a Week Rise - March Though Storms - 2018
HOUSE OF HAMMIL - Pandora's Box - March Though Storms - 2018
HOUSE OF HAMMIL - Snake Oil - March Though Storms - 2018

JOHN FLYNN - She Persisted - Vintage - 2018
JOHN FLYNN - Church of the Broken Sidewalks- Vintage - 2018
JOHN FLYNN - Take It Down (Uncivil War)- Vintage - 2018
Rod at Mt. Toby Concerts this Saturday:
ROD MacDONALD - Fake News - 3 New Songs 11-17
ROD MacDONALD - A Tale of Two Americas - A Tale of Two Americas – 2011
ROD MacDONALD - Love Is the Common Ground - A Tale of Two Americas - 2011
Fascism:
DAVID ROVICS - 1933 - Single - 2018
MICHAEL VEITCH - White Rose - Wake up Call - 2017
ERIC ANDERSEN - Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam - Memory of the Future - 1999
JIM PAGE - Masters Of Lies - A Hand Full of Songs – 2017
ROD MacDONALD - For the Good of America - Recognition – 2003
Draft Resistance:
PHILOCHS - Draft Dodger Rag - I Ain't Marching Anymore - 1965 Elektra
LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005
HEALY & JURAVICH - Cold Mountain - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
DAVID ROVICS - Neither King Nor Kaiser - When I'm Elected President - 2014
BARBARA DANE - Join the GI Movement - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Playlist for 10/10/18

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
Indigenous People's Day:
NANCY SCHIMMEL - 1492 - Sun, Sun Shine - 1991
DAVID ZIMMERMAN - Columbus - Just a Little Something - 1999
GILLIAN WELCH/DAVID RAWLINGS - As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (Peter La Farge) - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Generation - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco) - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings
Domestic Violence:
TRACY CHAPMAN - Behind the Wall - Tracy Chapman - 1988 Elektra/Aylum Records
TOM PAXTON - She Sits on the Table - Best of Friends - 2004
BRIAN McNEILL - Steady As She Goes - No Gods - 1996
MILLPOND MOON - Lena Baker - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015
REBECCA LOEBE - Weeping Willow - Blink - 2017
John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry 10/16/1859:
DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
JENNIE AVILA - The Carpenter - Civil War - 2009
MAGPIE – Heaven Is Less Than Fair (Reggie & Kim Harris) - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit - 2000
MAGPIE - Captain - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit - 2000
ROB McHALE - Deep in the River - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018
Justice:
ERIC BANNAN - Blessed Be - You Are Welcome Here - 2017
JOHN O'CONNOR - Waiting - Rare Songs - 2018
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Someday (We Shall Overcome) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015
FRED GILLEN, JR. - We the People - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
Hurricanes/Climate Change:
RUSTIC RIDERS - The Storm Is Coming - Wake Up! - 2015
DAVID ROTH - Community of Faith - Practice Makes Perfect - 2008 Wind River Records
PHAT - WQRZ - Live - 2017
CROWES PASTURE - The Storm - Edge of America - 2017
ROD MacDONALD - Days of Rain - After the War - 2009

DAVID ROTH - Pachamama Turns - So Far, So Good - 2015

Playlist for 11/3/18

Women/Abuse:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Believe Her - I Believe Her - Single – 2018
PETER ALSOP - When the Women Say No - Disciples of Perfection - 2010 Moose School Prods.
BEV GRANT – Inez - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
THREE MILES LOST - Til It Happens to You (Lady Gaga) - 2016 Sled Dog Studios
B - You Can't Take This Away from Me - Ghosts Underneath My Skin - 2018
Political Corruption:
BRUCE T. CARROLL - Fox in the Henhouse - Finding You - 2018
LESLIE ODOM Jr. - Seriously (Sara Bareilles) - 2016
ZOE SPEAKS – Wings of A Dove - Wings - 2018
ZOE SPEAKS - There's A Hole Where Your Soul's Supposed to Be - Wings - 2018
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY - Impeachable- summerfallwinterspring – 2017
WILLIE NELSON - Vote 'em Out - Single - 2018
Spanish Civil War:
PETE SEEGER - Viva la Quince Brigada - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
WOODY GUTHRIE - Jarama - Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 & 2 - 2014 Smithsonian Folkways
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - The Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade - Diamonds and Pearls – 2017
SI KAHN - Clarence Kailin - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
DAVID ROVICS - The Last Lincoln Veteran - Troubador (People's History in Song) – 2010
Gun Massacres:
ROD MacDONALD - Many Can't Be Moved - Later That Night - 2014
ABBIE GARDNER - I Can't Believe - Wishes on a Neon Sign - 2018
JOE JENCKS - Why Are the Guns Still Firing (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JACKIE MORRIS - Crazy Eddie - Single - 2018
B - We Are All the Same - Ghosts Underneath My Skin - 2018
Climate Change Effects:
DAVID ROVICS - Famine, Flood and Fire - Ballad of A Wobbly - 2017
TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013
MICHAEL BRAUNFELD - Washed Away - Full Circle - 2014
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - When I Was Your Age - Parts & Labor - 2014
Songs for the Spirit:
PADDY MILLS - The Good Life - The Good Life -2016
THE NIELDS - Treasure in the Rock - XVII – 2015 Mercy House Prods.

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Playlist for 9/26/18

JACKIE MORRIS - Autumn Song - Periscope

Freedom:
DULCIE TAYLOR - Not Here, Not Today - Wind Over Stone - 2015 Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
TRET FURE - Freedom - Rembrandt Afternoons - 2015 Tomboy Girl Records
FRED GILLEN, JR. - Walking Down that Freedom Highway - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

LGBTQ:
CARRIE FERGUSON - Girls Like Me - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009
DAVID ROVICS - I Know A Man - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
ROY ZIMMERMAN - I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011
COLLEEN KATTAU - Winter Came Early - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes - 2008

Farms:
JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR - Penny's Farm - Penny's Farm - 2016
ROWDY HOUSE – Family Farm – I Won't Comply – 2012
KATE CAMPBELL – The Locust Years (Kate Campbell, Ira Campbell, Johnny Pierce) – The K.O.A. Tapes (Vol. 1) – 2015 Large River Music
ANGELA EASTERLING - Hammer - Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Farmer Is the Woman - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder

Interview THE WHISPERING TREE – Eleanor Kleiner & Elie Brangbour
THE WHISPERING TREE - Garden - Live in studio – 2018
THE WHISPERING TREE – Deportees (Woody Guthrie) – Live in studio - 2018
THE WHISPERING TREE - Fat Cat - Invisible Forces - 2018
THE WHISPERING TREE - These Houses - Invisible Forces - 2018

Change:
RAYE ZARAGOZA – American Dream – Fight for You – 2017
GEOFF BARTLEY - The Past Is Dead and Gone - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Grow Up and Change the World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
SCOTT COOK - New Grist - One More Time Around - 2013
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Change - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Peace/Civility:
AARON NATHANS & MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - The Strength to Not Fight Back - Hang On for the Ride - 2017
MARIA DUNN - For Peace and Plenty - We Were Good People - 2004
CHARLIE KING - If Baboons Can Work It Out - So Far...So Good - 2013
AUSTIN & ELLIOTT - Don't Go Away Mad - Cradle and Crow - 2016

Playlist for 9/19/18

DON WHITE - Away from the Sun - More Alive - 2016

Occupy Wall Street 9/18/11
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Occupy the USA - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROVICS- Stay Right Here - Single - 2011
MICHAEL HOWARD - Meet Me at the Front Lines - Gasoline Dream – 2016
MANKANA - We Are The Many - 2011
CHARLIE KING - Our Demands (Rick Burkhardt) - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

Forests:
JIM PAGE - Butterfly Wings - Gettin Squeezed – 1999
JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - The Death of David Chain - We Just Want the World - 1998
AMY MARTIN - Limestone - Unbroken - 2001
TIM GRIMM - Thirteen Years - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

Anti-War:
DAVID ROVICS - Barbara Lee - When I'm Elected President - 2014
BARBARA DANE - Join the GI Movement - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone – 2005
RISE AGAINST - Hero of War - Appeal to Reason - 2008
HEALY & JURAVICH - Cold Mountain - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

Capitalism/Anniv. of 9/16/08 Global Financial Crisis:
SKINNER & T'WITCH - Money, Money, Money - Everybody's Grotty - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Kick It While It's Down - Everything Can Change - 2013
SUE MASSEK - I Hate the Capitalist System (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015
DISAPPEAR FEAR - The Banker - Broken Film - 2013 Sonia Rutstein
PAUL SIMON - The Werewolf - Stranger to Stranger - 2016

Income Disparity:
ERIC LEE - Prince of Dreamers - Heartache Town - 2018
LUCY BILLINGS - State of Blind - Carry the Water - 2014
TERRY KITCHEN - Ninety-nine - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire
GEOFF BARTLEY - Money Is King - Put the Big Stone Down - 2009
ROY ZIMMERMAN - End of the Ship - Real American - 2010

ERIC LEE - Help My Neighbor On - Heartache Town - 2018

Playlist for 9/12/18

JIM SHARKEY - September - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015

American Dream/Change:
RAYE ZARAGOZA - American Dream - Fight for You - 2017
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Promised Land - Parts & Labor - 2014
SI KAHN - When the Land and They Were Young - Thanksgiving - 2007 Strictly Country Records
MICHAEL TROY - I Am American - I Am American - 2015
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Terrorist Attack on 9/11:
PAT LAMANNA - Two Towers - Full Circle - 2009
ROBIN GREENSTEN - Hole in the Ground - Tears and Laughter - 2002
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Short Shift at Ground Zero - Simplicity - 2002
KITTY DONOHOE - There Are No Words - Northern Borders - 2008 Roheen Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Response to 9/11 Attack:
DAVID ROVICS - Hang A Flag in the Window - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002
TONY DENIKOS - Kill 'Em All - Time Tells Tales - 2003
SONIA RUTSTEIN - I Am the Enemy - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004
SEIZE THE DAY - United States - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
DAVID ROTH - Rise We Will - Think Twice - 2004

Environment/Hurricane Season:
MICHAEL BRAUNFELD - Washed Away - Full Circle - 2014
EVAN GREER - Ballad of Hurricane Katrina - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
ROBIN GREENSTEIN - A Tale of Two Cities - Tears and Laughter -2016
MOLASSES CREEK - Waterbound - Waterbound - 2015
PAT WICTOR - Make Levees Not War - Mission Street Project/Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music

Emma's Revolution at Mt. Toby Concerts:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Killing Game - Revolution Now - 2017
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Shadow of the Wall - Revolution Now - 2017
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Sing People Sing - Revolution Now - 2017

HEATHER PIERSON - Make It Mine - Still She Will Fly - 2015 Vessel Recordings

Friday, September 7, 2018

Playlist for 9/5/18

LABOR DAY:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Labor Day - Supper's on the Table, Everybody Come In - 2001 Rounder

Women in Labor:
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002
BARBARA DANE - Working-Class Woman (Peter Boyd/Barbara Dane) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003
HEDY WEST with Pete Seeger on banjo - Cotton Mill Girls - Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest
MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Bread & Roses (James Oppenheim & Martha Coleman) - When We Stand Together - 2017

War on the Workers:
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2003
KEVIN ROBINS - Corporate Anorexia - 2010
TOM JURAVICH - The Problem - Altar of the Bottom Line – 2007
CHARLIE KING - Bring Back the Eight Hour Day - So Far…So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain (Louise Mosrie/Mike Richardson) - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music

Labor Disasters:
DAVID ROVICS - Sometimes I Walk the Aisles - When I'm Elected President - 2014
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Ruth Rubin) - We Were There! - 2002
BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Blantyre Explosion - Beg & Borrow - 2015
MICAH & MARK ATKINSON - A Miner's Wife - Land of Broken Angels - 2016
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Organize:
PAT HUMPHRIES - No Sweat (Bev Grant/Pat Humphries) - Hands – 2001
TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union (Billy Bragg) - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece) - When We Stand Together - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim - 2000
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Stand Together - RPM -2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Fascism:
ROD MacDONALD - For the Good of America - Recognition - 2003
DAVID ROVICS – Henk - DAVID ROVICS – Henk – Into A Prism – 2013
JIM PAGE - Masters Of Lies - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017
MICHAEL VEITCH - White Rose - Wake up Call - 2017

Justice?:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Scrotus (Roy Zimmerman/Melanie Harby) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015
PHIL OCHS - Power and the Glory - All The News That's Fit To Sing - 1964 Elektra
PETE SEEGER – And Still I'm Searching – Where Have All the Flowers Gone – 1998

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Playlist for 8/29/18

HOLLY NEAR - Front Porch - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music

What's wrong:
KATE CAMPBELL - Damn Sure Blue (Kate Campbell/Tom Kimmel) - Damn Sure Blue - 2018
ROGER SALLOOM - Don't Let My Country Wash Away - Single - 2017
THE WHISPERING TREE - Fat Cat - Invisible Forces – 2018
HOLLY NEAR - Are You Kidding Me - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music
CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - I Saw the Sea - Incantations - 2017

Politics/Trump:
HOLLY NEAR - Coup d'Etat - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music
TIM GRIMM - Gonna Be Great - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
ROY ZIMMERMAN - T-Rump - Single - 2017
Up & Down Theatre - Make America Great Again - Single - 2016

Civil Rights:
KATE CAMPBELL – Change Should Have Come By Now (Kate Campbell/Will Kimbrough) - Damn Sure Blue - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Today in Charlottesville - Single – 2017
GORDON BOK & BOB ZENTZ - Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life (Bob Carawan) - Together Again for the First Time - 2017
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - Single - 2013
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - I've Got a Dream - Activist Music Old and New- 2012

Vote:
CRYS MATTHEWS - American History XIX - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
SPOOK HANDY - Vote - Breakfast at Bill's - 2001 Akashic Records
ROY ZIMMERMAN - My Vote, My Voice, My Right (Roy Zimmerman/Melanie Harby) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015
CHARLIE KING - Willin' To Be Votin' - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Vote - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Hurricane Season is coming:
ROD MacDONALD - Days of Rain - After the War - 2009
PAMELA MEANS - New Orleans - Precedent - 2009
PATRICK SYLVEST - The Ballad of Hurricane Isaac - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014
RUSTIC RIDERS - The Storm Is Coming - Wake Up! - 2015

Rise Up/Resist:
HOLLY NEAR - Someone Was Brave Before Me - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

Songs for the Spirit:
DAVID ROTH – Is It Too Much to Ask – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
KATE CAMPBELL - Peace, Precious Peace - Damn Sure Blue - 2018
EMMA'S REVOLUTION – Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DAVID ROTH – Last Day on Earth – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
TIM GRIMM – Over Hill and Dale - A Stranger in This Time – 2017

Friday, August 24, 2018

Playlist for 8/15/18 and 8/22/18

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman (Jolie Rickman) - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Terrorism/Mass Killings:
JOAN BAEZ - The President Sang Amazing Grace (Zoe Mulford) - Whistle Down the Wind - 2018
PAUL SACHS - Hit and Run - Full Detroit - 2018
DIANE PATTERSON - Shape of Your Sorrow - Open Road - 2018
RACHAEL SAGE - Disarm Distrust (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Don't Take Anyone - Spaghettification - 2017

Gun Control:
TOM PAXTON - What If, No Matter... - Single - 2013
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Singalong Second Amendment - Real American - 2010
SUZIE BROWN - Fallen Down - Almost There - 2013
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Gun Country - We the People - 2013
CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me-1997

Immigration/Hard Times:
PAUL SACHS – Leave a little Heaven Behind - Full Detroit - 2018
GREG CORNELL & THE CORNELL BROTHERS - I Had a Pony - Come On Home - 2016
PAUL SACHS - Family Secrets - Full Detroit - 2018
TIM GRIMM - The Hungry Grass - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
LEAH K. MANNING - The New World - In California - The Miner's Town (Paul Marsteller) - Roving Lily - 2017
THE BURNS SISTERS - Mothers' Ode - Looking Back - 2015 Sisters Music

Dying Cities:
PAUL SACHS - Full Detroit - Full Detroit – 2018
DAVE LIPPMAN - They Bailed Out Everything But Detroit - 2013 Single
PROFESSOR LOUIE - New York City - Be for Real - 1996
KAIA KATER - Paradise Fell - Nine Pin - 2016

Spirituality:
PAUL SACHS - Foxhole Prayer - Full Detroit - 2018
AUSTIN & ELLIOTT - All God's Children - 13 Songs Plus - 2015
MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Closer to God - Time to Fly - 2018
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Me and Jesus - Ghost Light - 2018

Love:
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - May the Light of Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011
TOM PAXTON - Life - Boat in the Water - 2017

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Playlist for 8/8/18

MARA LEVINE – Leaves That Are Green (Paul Simon) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

Hiroshima/Nagasaki:
DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003
GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand (Nazim Hikmet/James Waters) - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004
JIM PAGE - Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
TOM NEILSON - Heroes of the Cold War - Biomess - 2010
SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

Elections:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Take Your Vagina to the RNC - Single - 2011
TAYLOR FERRERA - Vote with your Vagina - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - IRV - Who Would Jesus Bomb - 2003
BRIAN HUNT - The Redistricting Song - 2011
CRYS MATTHEWS - American History XIX - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

Racism:
JANE ROSS FALLON - Before the Fire - Songs on Purpose - 2016
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Battle of Maxton Field - Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth - 1967
3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Old Songs for Modern Folk - 2016

Environment/Pollution:
JANE ROSS FALLON - Sweet Poison - Songs on Purpose - 2016
SARA THOMSEN - Precious Water - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
MAGPIE - This Old Bay (Bob Zentz) - Living Planet - 1989 - Long Tail Records
DAN SCHATZ- Something in the Rain (Tish Hinojosa) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
TOM NEILSON - Jacksonville - Dancin' Shoes - 1997

PTSD:
JANE ROSS FALLON - My Daughter - Songs on Purpose - 2016
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
FREEBO - A Soldier at War - Before the Separation - 2005 Poppabo Music
LINDSAY MAC - His Dreams - Stop Thinking - 2008
JIM PAGE - Jim's Song - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:
PAT HUMPHRIES - Never Turning Back - Same Rain - 1992 Moving Forward Music
JOE CROOKSTON - Out on the Run - Georgia I'm Here - 2014

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Playlist for 8/1/18

RACHEL SAGE - Alive - Myopia - 2018

Change:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Change - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
GREG GREENWAY - The Good Man - 20,000 Versions of the Sun - 2016
JAN GILLIES- Change is Coming - Change is Coming - 2013
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - A Spider's Web/Tomorrow Is A Highway (Pete Seeger/Lee Hays/E.B. White) - Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo - 2017

Environmental destruction:
ZOE SPEAKS - The Earth Has Had Enough - Wings - 2018
ERIC ANDERSEN - Darkness - Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron - 2017
JOHN COSTER - Last Stand on the Land - Lost Horizon - 2013
NORMAN BLAKE - How the Weary World Wears Away - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017
JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records

Persist in Hard Times:
ZOE SPEAKS - One Foot - Wings - 2018
HEATHER PIERSON - The Hard Work of Living - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings
HAPPY TRAUM - High Muddy Water (John Herald) - Just for the Love of It - 2015 Lark's Nest Music
BROTHER SUN – Mary Don't You Weep and Moan – Weights & Wings – 2016
BETH DeSOMBRE - Dandelion Wine - I Was Here – 2016

Victims and Survivors:
ZOE SPEAKS - Bluebird - Wings - 2018
DAVE FRY - Louise (Paul Siebel) - Troubadour - 2018
RACHEL SAGE - Daylight - Myopia - 2018
LOUISE MOSRIE - Lay It Down - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
PETER ALSOP - When the Women Say No - Disciples of Perfection - 2010 Moose School Prods.

Political hypocrisy/Corruption/Patriarchy:
ZOE SPEAKS - There's A Hole Where Your Soul's Supposed to Be - Wings - 2018
DAVID ROVICS – Someone's Got Their Ear – Into A Prism – 2013
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Big Republican Tent - Single - 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
HARPETH RISING - 535 (Are You Even Alive?) - Against All Tides - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Shout and Shine - Shout and Shine - 2018
DAVE FRY - We Are Welcolmed to This World (Sally Rogers) - Troubadour – 2018
EMMA'S REVOLUTION – Better Days - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
LOUISE MOSRIE – Singing My Heart Out - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY – When I Sing My Song - Diamonds and Pearls – 2017
SARA THOMSEN - Contemplation Chant - Winter Wanderings - 2012

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Playlist for 7/25/18

DENNIS CARAHER - The Kingdom of Summer - The Kingdom of Summer - 2016 

Stand up/Speak out:
ZOE SPEAKS - Drop in the Bucket - Drop in the Bucket - 2008 
JOHN FLYNN - Put Your Freedom Where Your Mouth Is - Two Wolves - 2006 
THE LUCKY SISTERS - These Hands (Dave Gunning) - So Lucky - 2015 Patio Records 
3HATTRIO - Get Up Stand Up - Solitaire - 2016 
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Big, Big World - Simplicity - 2002 

White supremacy:
DAVID ROVICS - Breivik - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013 
HARPETH RISING - Love Child - Against All Tides - 2017 
GRANT PEEPLES - Pitchforks and Torches - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018 
ROD MacDONALD - Joe Public - Later That Night - 2014 
ANI DiFRANCO - Take Down Your Flag - (Peter Mulvey) – 2015 

Hunger strikes/Prison:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Pelican Bay - Spies Are Reading My Blog – 2013 
LARRY KIRWAN - Bobby Sands MP - youtube.com 
MARY COURTNEY - The Seeds of Freedom - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music 
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010 

Disposable Society:
ROB SIEGEL - Watchmaker - A Landscape of Ghosts - 2018 
ESTHER GOLTON - What Can I Say - Stay Warm - 2013 
JEFFERSON PEPPER - Disposable Me, Disposable You - American Evolution - 2008 American Fallout Records 

Aging:
PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT - Old Apples - A More Perfect Union - 2012 Appleseed Recordings 
HIGHWAYMEN - Desperados Waiting for a Train (Guy Clark) - Nassau Coliseum concert - 1990 
THE BLACK FEATHERS - Winter Moves In - Soaked to the Bone - 2016 
CONNOR GARVEY - Real Old - Meteors and Beating Hearts - 2014 

Environmental Threats:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire! - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015 
WOOL & GRANT - Last Man on the Mountain - Wool & Grant - 2013 
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Black Sea - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Productions 
SCOTT COOK - Alberta, You're Breaking My Heart (Scott Cook/Benjamin Caldwell) - Further Down the Line - 2017 
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music 

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Mister Rabbit - 2017

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Playlist for 7/18/18

ALICE HOWE - Tiger Lily - Tiger Lily EP – 2014

Nelson Mandela's 100th Birthday:
LARRY MURANTE - Nelson - Patch of Sky - 2016
GREG ENGLE - Nelson - Take It Personally - 2009 Ambo Records
MARY COURTNEY - Mandela - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music
DOLORES KEANE - Lion in a Cage (John Faulkner) - Lion in a Cage - 1989
SHARON KATZ & The Peace Train - Mandela - Imbizo - 2202 Appleseed Recordings

Black live matter/Eric Garner killed 7/17/14:
DAVID ROVICS – I Can't Breathe - The Other Side - 2015
LINDA SUSSMAN - The Change - Every Road - 2018
ELLEN BUKSTEL - By My Silence (Ellen Bukstel/Nick Annis) - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
CRYS MATTHEWS – We Must Be Free - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

Drugs/Big Pharma:
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Who's the Pusher Now? - Single - 2012
BILLY MITCHELL - Prescription Drugs - Detour - 2011
LINQ - Addicted to Drugs - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music
JULIE SNOW - The Pink One - No Ordinary Love - 2016
EVAN GREER - Adderall Song - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk

Immigration:
GLORIA ATTOUN - America - Single - 2018
COSY SHERIDAN & CHARLIE KOCH - My Fence & My Neighbor - My Fence & My Neighbor - 2018
WYATT EASTERLING - An American Dream - Acoustic Rainbow Sampler Vol 47 - 2017
PHAT - There Be Monsters Here - Live - 2017
MARIA DUNN - Immigrant Dream - Piece By Piece – 2012

Corporate farming:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Ask Any Farmer - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records
JACKIE MORRIS - Factory Farm - Can't Fix Crazy - 2014 Button Box
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Corporate Farm - Not Alone - 2013 Vigitant Records
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - Farmer's Daughter - Childhood Home - 2014

Songs for the Spirit:
ELIZA GILKYSON - Secularia - Secularia - 2018
THE LUCKY SISTERS - Grateful (David Francey) - So Lucky - 2015 Patio Records
TWO OF A KIND - One Foot/Lead with Love (Melanie DeMore) - Lead With Love – 2018

Playlist for 7/11/18

ARI & MIA - Turn Me Round - Land on Shore - 2013

Politics/Trump:
DON CARON & LINDA GOWER - Confounds the Science (Caron/Gower/McCartney) - Single - 2018
BRUCE T. CARROLL - Fox in the Henhouse - Finding You - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - 1933 - Single - 2018
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - King of the Whole Wide World (Dave Gordon) - Higher Ground - 2008
ALASTAIR MOOCK - Make It Great - Alastair Moock - 2017

Politics/Immigration:
BRUCE T. CARROLL - I Will Never Leave - Finding You - 2018
DON CARON - The Battle of the Wall - Single - 2018 The Parody Project
DAVID ROVICS - ICE - Single - 2018
ROD MacDONALD - The Python Song - 3 New Songs 11-17 - 2017
GRANT PEEPLES - More for Us, Less for Them - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018

Politics/Intolerance:
CHUCK BRODSKY - Them and Us - Them and Us - 2018
CHARLIE KING - Why Don't You Move to Russia? - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man – 2010
MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Promised Land -Bridging the Gap – 2010
JANIS IAN - Danger Danger - Folk Is the New Black - 2006

Racism/White supremacy:
CHUCK BRODSKY - Couldn't Do What Daddy Done - Them and Us - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Today in Charlottesville - Single - 2017
PAMELA MEANS - The Devil's Henchmen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003
JOHN GORKA - Ignorance & Privilege - So Dark You See - 2009
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

Women:
KATE CALLAHAN - Wildflower - Triumph - 2018
ZOE MULFORD - Sister, Sail - Coyote Wings - 2013
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Supershero - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006
WOOL&GRANT - Vakhegula Vakhegula (Go Granny Go) (Bev Grant) - Wool&Grant – 2013
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Real Woman - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Song:
KATE CALLAHAN - Sing - Triumph - 2018
SCOTT COOK - Song for the Slow Dancers - Moonlit Rambles - 2011

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Playlist for 6/27/18

Fourth of July:
PHIL OCHS - Power and the Glory - All The News That's Fit To Sing - 1964 Elektra
JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010
BLUE O'CONNELL - American Song - Single -1990
LOIS MORTON - Red White and Blues - As I See It – 2008
CHIP TAYLOR - Black & Blue America - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
MICHAEL VEITCH - Happy Fourth of July - Wake up Call - 2017

Freedom:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
RON ISRAEL - The Freedom Song - Tribal War - 2018
JON FROMER - If You're Looking for Freedom - Looking for Freedom - 2015 PM Press
NANCY GRIFFITH & Friends - If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger/Lee Hays) - Where Have All the Flowers Gone - 1998 Appleseed Recordings
BOB DYLAN - Chimes of Freedom - The Best of the Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music

Immigrants:
B - We Come from War - Ghosts Underneath My Skin - 2018
GATHERING TIME - Can't Find Our Way - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman – 2006
DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President – 2014
BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth – 2013

What's Wrong:
RON ISRAEL - Divisions - Tribal War - 2018
CLAUDIA RUSSELL + BRUCE KAPLAN - Land of Plenty - Lovers tree - 2018
B - We Are All the Same - Ghosts Underneath My Skin - 2018
MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Promised Land -Bridging the Gap - 2010
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Not Me - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

Resistance:
KIM MOBERG – Resist - Above Ground - 2017
KATE CALLAHAN - Love's Rebels - Triumph - 2018
TOM MORELLO - Until the End - Hugs for Chelsea – 2017
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Sing Our Own Song (UB40/Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008

Songs for the Spirit:
KATE CALLAHAN - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Triumph - 2018
WOODY GUTHRIE - This Land Is Your Land - This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings - Vol. 1 - 1956 Ludlow Music

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Playlist for 6/6/18

BARBARA DANE - This Little Light of Mine - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

D-Day - 6/6/1944:
LAURA WETZLER - Flying - Flying - 2011
DAVID FRANCEY - Crucible - Empty Train - 2016
PETER, PAUL and MARY - Semper Fi (John Gorka) - Discovered/Live in Concert - 2014
DAVID ROVICS –Liberty and Justice for All - The Other Side - 2015
JOE JENCKS - Children of Trochenbrod - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

Labor:
RICHARD RUANE & BETH DUQUETTE - Stuffing Clams in Exeter - Notch Road - 2018 Riptone Records
DAVE LIPPMAN - When We Stand Up for 15 - You Don't Own the World – 2016
STEVE DEASY - I'm Working for Walmart - People Once Were Welcome Here – 2010
JOE JENCKS - Third Shift (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
CHARLIE KING - Our Life Is More Than Our Work - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Presidential Lies:
ROWDY HOUSE - Don't Let a Liar Lead You - I Won't Comply - 2012
BARBARA DANE - Gipper Gate Blues - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
AMY MARTIN - It's About Oil - Partake - 2005
RON ISRAEL - Everyone Knows the President Lies - Homeless in America - 2017
JIM PAGE - Masters Of Lies - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017

1960's - Bobby Kennedy killed 6/6/1968:
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
GREG GREENWAY - Never Say Never - 20,000 Versions of the Sun - 2016
BARBARA DANE - Come By Here - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
BARBARA DANE - It Isn't Nice (Dane/Reynolds) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
REGGIE HARRIS - Another Age (Phil Ochs) - Ready to Go - 2018 Reggie Harris Music

Phil Ochs Song Night:
JOE JENCKS with Ysaye Barnwell and Tret Fure - Hands (Phil Ochs) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers – 2017
PAT WICTOR - Changes (Phil Ochs) - Sunset Waltz – 2008
CHRIS & MEREDITH THOMPSON - There But for Fortune (Phil Ochs/Noel Paul Stookey) - Lines of Longitude - 2017
ERIC ANDERSON - When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs) - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Sustainable Living:
PADDY MILLS - The Good Life - The Good Life -2016
ASHLEY STORROW - Close to the Bone - The Bear and the Bird - 2016

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Playlist for 5/30/18

ABRAHAM JAM - Rhythm of Surrender - Single - 2018

Memorial Day:
MARE WAKEFIELD - About the War - Meant to Be - 2011 Maresie Music
BOB BRADSHAW - Remember Me - Home - 2013 Fluke Records
SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World – 2007
DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
RUSTIC RIDERS - We Remember - Hearing Hearts - 2008

War:
BOB DYLAN - Masters of War - Bob Dylan in Concert - 2011
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out – 2011
BOBBY DARIN - Simple Song of Freedom - 1969
AUSTIN & ELLIOTT - Dance on the Killing Floor - 13 Songs Plus - 2015
HOLLY NEAR - In the Shadow of War - Peace Becomes You - 2012

Inclusion:
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Shout and Shine - Shout and Shine - 2018
DONNA LYNN CASKEY - Worthy - Nameless Heart - 2014
ERIC BANNAN - You Are Welcome Here - You Are Welcome Here - 2017
ANNIE PATTERSON - O Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seeger) - Mountain Side - 2011
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Y'all Means All - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

Poverty:
FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - If the Poor Don't Matter (Tom Paxton) - Shout and Shine - 2018
TRET FURE - Unemployment Blues - Roses in Novermber - 2018
SUE MASSEK - Dreadful Memories (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - Everything That Happens Makes Me Stronger (David Roth et al) - Rhubarb Trees – 2011
PHIL OCHS - There But for Fortune - Phil Ochs - In Concert - 1966 Elektra

Immigration:
TRET FURE - Edith Rivera - Roses in Novermber - 2018
DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
SARA THOMSEN - Amber Stone - Somewhere to Begin – 2014
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Immigrant - Supper's On the Table - 2005 Appalsongs
WYATT EASTERLING - An American Dream - Acoustic Rainbow Sampler Vol 47 – 2017

Love:
TRET FURE - In This Circle - Roses in Novermber – 2018
PAUL SIMON - Proof of Love - Stranger to Stranger - 2016

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Playlist for 5/16/18

Spring baseball:
CHUCK BRODSKY - The Handshake - Tell Tale Heart - 2015
TIM GRIMM - My Favorite Spring (Tom Paxton) - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

Refugees/Immigrants:

THE KENNEDYS - Don't Talk to Stangers -Safe Until Tomorrow – 2018
TIM GRIMM - The Hungry Grass - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
IKE REILLY - Bolt Cutter - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017
THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt - 2017
THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein

Environmental destruction:
THE KENNEDYS - Dancing on the Moon -Safe Until Tomorrow – 2018
TIM GRIMM - Black Snake - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Rising Tide - Parts & Labor - 2014
NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017
THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND - Songbird - Deep Waters - 2016
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Bloomin' Rose - Echo in the Valley – 2017

Hard Times/Unemployment:
TOM HEANY - I Just Don't Know - Reservoir - 2018
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Tramp (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
BYRD & STREET - Man with A Cardboard Sign - This Much Is True - 2017
MARGHI ALLEN - Freedom Train - Little Pieces of My Heart - 2014
MARIA DUNN - How Do You Do, 1935? - We Were Good People – 2004
TIM GRIMM - Blame It on the Dog - The Turning Point - 2013

Farming:
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - Farmer's Market A-Z - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music
ANNIE PATTERSON - Gone Gonna Rise Again (Si Kahn) - Mountain Side – 2011
RUSTIC RIDERS - Small Farms Rising - Wake Up! - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Farmer Is the Woman - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder

Songs for the Spirit:
TIM GRIMM - The Tree - The Turning Point - 2013
MARV HAMILTON - Singin' With the Bees - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
PADDY MILLS - The Good Life - The Good Life - 2016
JAMES DURST - Cycle Song of Life (The River Song) - Wish I Were Here - 2014 WorldWind

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Playlist for 5/9/18

JENNIFER CUTTING'S OCEAN ORCHESTRA - Song to the Sun - Waves – 2017

International Workers Day:
ANNE FEENEY - The Internationale (Pottier/Degeyter) - Jail for Justice - 2000
JOE JENCKS - The Old Labor Hall - (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
MARIA DUNN - Troublemaker - We Were Good People - 2004
TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union (Billy Bragg) - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Workers of the World Awaken (Joe Hill) - When We Stand Together - 2017

Kent State shooting of students 5/4/ 1970:
MAGPIE - Kent - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
DAVID ROVICS - Dead - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014
REGGIE HARRIS - Another Age (Phil Ochs) - Ready to Go - 2018 Reggie Harris Music
SCOTT AINSLIE - Rice Grows Again in Vietnam - The Feral Crow - 2004
TIM GRIMM - My Turn -The Back Fields – 2005

VE Day 4/8/1945:
DAVID FRANCEY - Crucible - Empty Train - 2016
JOE JENCKS - Children of Trochenbrod - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017
THE MALVINAS - The Ukranian Song - God Bless the Grass - 2017
CHUCK BRODSKY - Your Violin - Them and Us – 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Bella Ciao - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014

Poverty:
AMY MARTIN - Rose of Sharon - Partake - 2005
FINEST KIND - Song of the Lower Classes - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music
KAIA KATER - Paradise Fell - Nine Pin - 2016
GILLIAN WELCH - Annabelle - Boots No. 1 - 2016 Acony
DAVID ROTH - Goodness Is More Than a Dream - So Far, So Good - 2015

Nuclear War:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JOEL RAFAEL - Dance Around my Atom Fire (Woody Guthrie) - America Come Home - 2012 Inside Recordings
SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

Stand Up/Change:
REGGIE HARRIS - Ready to Go - Ready to Go - 2018 Reggie Harris Music
ANNIE PATTERSON & PETER BLOOD - The Tide Is Rising (Shoshana Meira Friedman /Yotam Schachter) - Single - 2015
THE KENNEDYS – Be Silent No More (Shoshana Meira Friedman/Yotam Schachter) -Safe Until Tomorrow – 2018
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Turn this Ship Around - Spaghettification - 2017

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Playlist for 4/18/18

MARA LEVINE - April Come She Will (Paul Simon) - Jewels and Harmony – 2013

Environment:
LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005
LES SAMPOU - Nature's Song - Sweet Perfume - 1993
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Bloomin' Rose - Echo in the Valley – 2017
PAT LAMANNA - Banana - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
THE MALVINAS - God Bless the Grass (Malvina Reynolds) - God Bless the Grass – 2017

Conscience:
FRED SMALL - Denmark, 1943 - I Will Stand Fast - 1988 New Rounder
DAVID ROVICS - One Day in Kenya - Letter to My Landlord – 2016
CHARLIE KING - Presente - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017
FRED GILLEN Jr - Julia (Fred Gillen Jr/Matt Turk) - What She Said - 2017
BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming - Single - 2003

Oil:
TIM GRIMM - Black Snake - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Oil Train - Spies Are Reading My Blog - 2013
AMY MARTIN - It's About Oil - Partake – 2005
DANA HUBBARD - Petroleum People - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
OTTER CREEK - Bidder 70 - The Fiddle Preacher - 2015

Trump:
TIM GRIMM - Gonna Be Great - A Stranger in This Time – 2017
ROY ZIMMERMAN - T-Rump - Single – 2017
Up & Down Theatre - Make America Great Again - Single – 2016
ALASTAIR MOOCK - Make It Great - Alastair Moock – 2017
RACHAEL SAGE - Tomorrow (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017

Resistance:
AMY MARTIN - Georgia, Late November - To You! - 2000
KRISTEN GRAVES - Folk Army - Now Ain't the Time for Tears - 2014
KATHERINE RHODA - Wellspring - Songs of Freedom, Struggle and Spirit - 2009
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008
ERIKA KULNYS - Rise Up - Rise Up- 2016

RAVEN SPIRIT – In the Wild – Folk Songs for Climate Justice – 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Playlist for 4/11/18

ESTHER GOLTON - Stay Warm - Stay Warm - 2013

Environment/Endangered Species:
JAMES DURST - An Occasional Eagle - Wish I Were Here - 2014 WorldWind
LEE MURDOCK - The Blue Pike Song - Loving Light - 2016
ARTHUR DAVENPORT - Jonathan Leviathan - Jonathan Leviathan – 2016
SI KAHN - Upstream - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records
JANET BATES - Celia Says (Dave Carter) - The Little Spinner - 2009

Anniversary of Phil Ochs' death 4/9/1976: PHIL OCHS - Changes - The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
PHIL OCHS - There But for Fortune - Phil Ochs - In Concert - 1966 Elektra
PHIL OCHS - When I'm Gone - Phil Ochs - In Concert - 1966 Elektra

War:
AUSTIN & ELLIOTT - Dance on the Killing Floor - 13 Songs Plus - 2015
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011
STORYHILL - Better Angels - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records
JIM PAGE - Collateral Damage - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017
SARA THOMSEN - Shattered Gardens - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

New CD/Labor:
JOE JENCKS - Shuttle & Loom (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - Morning Star (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - Third Shift (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - Union Miner (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Corporate Greed:
EVAN GREER - Their Eyes - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
JAN HAMMARLUND - Free Enterprise (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
JOE JENCKS - You Don't Have the Right - I Hear Your Voice – 2003
RICHARD SHINDELL - Atlas Choking - Careless - 2016
PROFESSOR LOUIE - Corporate Power - Hurricane - 2008

Hard Times:
TIM GRIMM - Rumblin' in the Land - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records
JENNIFER EVANS - There But for Fortune - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998
SWAMP BROTHERS - Hard Times (Stephen Foster) - The Tennessee Sessions - 2015 Itchy Sabot Records

DAN SCHATZ - Hands Across the Waters - The Song and the Sigh - 2010
DAN SCHATZ – A Little Gracefulness (John Calvi) - The Song and the Sigh - 2010

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Playlist for 4/4/18

MLK Assassinated 4/4/1968:
BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love - Some Part of the Truth - 2013 Brother Sun Music
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA - Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks - Big Round World
JANET BATES - Martin - For All of His Wealth - 2007
STEVEN BLANE - I Hung My Head - The Shed Sessions - 2017
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Letters from a Ghost - Through A Frozen Midnight Sky - 2009

Slavery:
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board! - 2007 Appleseed Recordings
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More – 2006
KAIA KATER - Rising Down - Nine Pin - 2016
MICAH & MARK ATKINSON - We'll Be Gone - Land of Broken Angels – 2016
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Free At Last – Steal Away: songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings

Racism then:
JANE SAPP/SI KAHN/PETE SEEGER - Harriet Tubman (Walter Robinson) - Carry It On - 1987 Flying Fish Records
3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
KATY MOFFATT - Here's to the State of Mississippi - Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Civil Rights Movement:
DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - That Kind of Grace - Rhubarb Trees – 2011
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Have Gone (Phil Ochs) - The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
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
GREG GREENWAY - Never Say Never - 20,000 Versions of the Sun - 2016
JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Racism Now:
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Old Songs for Modern Folk - 2016
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - Single - 2013

Activism:
CRYS MATTHEWS - One and the Same - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
BREE NEWSOME - Stay Strong - Single - 2014

Joe Jencks at Mt. Toby Concerts:
JOE JENCKS – Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers – 2017
JOE JENCKS - Solidarity Forever (Joe Jencks/Ralph Chaplin) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

Monday, April 2, 2018

Playlist for 3/28/18

Spring:
HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song (H. Masse/Nicky Mehta) - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records
PETE SEEGER - Maple Syrup Time - Seeds: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

Iraq War started 3/19/2003:
DAVID ROVICS - Operation Iraqi Liberation - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw - 2007
ANNE FEENEY - Shell Game - If I Can't Dance - 2006
RICH EILBERT - Ocean of Sand - Back from the War – 2009
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006

Three Mile Island Meltdown 3/28/1979:
DANA LYONS - Building One in My City - Animal - 1985
JEFFERSON PEPPER - The Crying Land - American Evolution - 2008
CHARLIE KING - Acres of Clams – So Far...So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
THE PRINCES OF SERENDIPITY -TG VANINI – Plutonium Pops – What She Said – 2011 Jaiya Records
TOM NEILSON - Just A Little Meltdown - Fools No More - 2006

Genocide:
DAVID ROVICS - 1492 -1939 – 2015
SARA THOMSEN - Halabja - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
JANET BATES - Rwanda - Another Child - 2006
CHARLIE KING - Kristallnacht Is Coming (Bob Franke) - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

Laborers:
GREG KLYMA - Garbageman - Another Man's Treasure - 2013
MICHAEL BRAUNFELD - The Local - Full Circle - 2014
BARBARA DANE - Working People's Blues (Kenny Whitson) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
STEVE ALLAIN - My Father's Only Son - Thirteen - 2011
ZOE MULFORD - When the Coffee's All Gone - Coyote Wings - 2013

New Album:
JOE JENCKS - Why Are the Guns Still Firing - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn- 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - I'm A Stranger in this Land - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - The Old Labor Hall - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
JOE JENCKS - Who Will Speak for Me - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

For Suzy Polucci:
PAT HUMPHRIES - To My Old Brown Earth (Pete Seeger) - Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Playlist for 3/14/18

JOAN BAEZ - Another World (Anohni) - Whistle Down the Wind - 2018

Gun Control/Mass Shootings:
JOAN BAEZ - The President Sang Amazing Grace (Zoe Mulford) - Whistle Down the Wind – 2018
SUZIE BROWN - Fallen Down - Almost There - 2013
EVAN FRANKEL - Slaughter - 2013
ROD MacDONALD - Many Can't Be Moved - Later That Night - 2014
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Culture of Violence - Carry On - 2007 Talking Horse Music

Labor Strikes:
ROB McHALE - Blair Mountain - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
Milwaukee, WI 7 died after militia fired on 14,000 workers fighting for 8 hour day
SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Casey Jones (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming – 2003

Conscience:
BIRDS OF CHICAGO - American Flowers - American Flowers - 2017
BOB DYLAN - Blowin' in the Wind - The Best of the Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music
ANDY & JUDY - High Road - This Old Town - 2017
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Don't Let It Bring You Down - Echo in the Valley - 2017
SAM GLEAVES - The Golden Rule - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

Equality/The Commons:
ROB McHALE - Common Ground - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018
MONDAY MORNING DENIAL - Scoundrels That We Are - Scoundrels That We Are – 2016
Song based on an 1883 trial in Lyon, France, of sixty anarchists, including Peter Kropotkin
LAURA ZUCKER - This Boat - Say Yes - 2017
MICHAEL VEITCH - Pledging Allegiance - Wake up Call - 2017
JOHN SHELDON - The Same Water - Single

Women:
BARBARA DANE - Working-Class Woman (Peter Boyd/Jane Felczer/Barbara Dane) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
BARBARA DANE - Truck-Driving Woman (Si Kahn) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Upcoming Concert at Mt. Toby:
SAM GLEAVES - Angel in the Ashes - Ain't We Brothers - 2015
SAM GLEAVES - Two Virginia Boys - Ain't We Brothers - 2015
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Stockyard Hill – Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - When We Love - Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Playlist for 2/28/18 and 3/7/18

SAM GLEAVES - If I Could Write A Song - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

Loss of American Dream:
SHAWN TAYLOR - Swing Low Sweet Liberty - Home - 2012
FUZEK & ROSSONI - Waking Up from the American Dream - Waking Up from the American Dream - 2008
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009
RACHAEL KILGOUR - In America - Whistleblower's Manifesto: Songs for a New Revolution - 2013
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Promised Land - Parts & Labor - 2014

Women/Abuse/Rape:
ERIC BANNAN - Not Your Emma Lee Anymore - You Are Welcome Here - 2017
THE MALVINAS - Meteorite - God Bless the Grass - 2017
THREE MILES LOST - Til It Happens to You (Lady Gaga) - 2016 Sled Dog Studios
SUSAN TONEY - Ransom - Strange Child - 2007 Strange Child Records
JANET BATES - She Sings Her Song - For All of His Wealth - 2007

Justice:
ERIC BANNAN - Blessed Be - You Are Welcome Here - 2017
FRED GILLEN, JR. - We the People - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records
APARNA LAKSHMI - Can I Get a Witness - Points of Light & the Constellation - 2011
PAUL KAPLAN - Stand Our Ground for Justice - 2014
PHIL OCHS - Power and the Glory - All The News That's Fit To Sing - 1964 Elektra

Revolution:
KRISTEN GRAVES - Demand - Now Ain't the Time for Tears - 2014
JOAN BAEZ - The Great Correction (Eliza Gilkyson) - Whistle Down the Wind - 2018
SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Declaration of War - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Waiting for the Fall - 2009

Responsibility/Help One Another:
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew – Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017
CURTIS & LORETTA - When There's Good to Be Done - When There's Good to Be Done - 2015

Songs for the Spirit:
DIANE PATTERSON - Come On Rain - Open Road - 2018
ERIC ANDERSEN - Mingle with the Universe - Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron - 2017

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Playlist for 2/21/18

RACHEL SAGE - The Tide - The Tide - 2017

Mass shootings/Gun control:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
PETE KRONOWITT - Got Guns? - A Lone Voice - 2016
MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
KATHY MOSER - Someone Like You - Someone Like You – 2007
DIANE PATTERSON - Shape of Your Sorrow - Open Road - 2018

Homelessness:
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records
CROWES PASTURE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) – Crowes Pasture – 2016
LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Caught Between the Times - Parts & Labor - 2014
RON ISRAEL - Homeless in America - Homeless in America - 2017

LGBTQ:
MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Bernice & Bernadette - Time to Fly - 2018
AMBER CROSS - Trinity Gold Mine - Savage on the Downhill - 2017
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Annie - (Fred Small) - Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
HEATHER MAE - No Poor Soul - I Am Enough - 2016
SAM GLEAVES - Ain't We Brothers - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

Refugees:
DIANE PATTERSON - Rogue River Highway - Open Road - 2018
DAVID CROSBY - Look in their Eyes - Lighthouse – 2016
SKINNER & T'WITCH - Calais Nights - The Fool's Journey - 2016
IKE REILLY - Bolt Cutter - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017
BETH DeSOMBRE - Here - Resistance – 2017

Freedom/Stand Up:
DIANE PATTERSON - Spliff Song - Open Road - 2018
CRABTREE & MILLS - The Price of Freedom - Freedom - 2008 Free & Easy Music
DULCIE TAYLOR - Not Here, Not Today - Wind Over Stone - 2015 Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
DAVE LIPPMAN - Are We Gonna Make Some Noise? - You Don't Own the World - 2016
K'NAAN - Wavin' Flag - Troubadour - 2009 A&M Octone Records

JULIE SNOW - Beautiful World - No Ordinary Love - 2016

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Playlist for 2/14/18

Love/Happy Valentine's Day:
JOE PURDY & AMBER RUBARTH - Moonlight - American Folk - 2018 American Folk Records
THE BOXCAR LILIES - If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt) - Sugar Shack - 2013
JOE JENCKS - The Sweetest of Rose - The Candle and the Flame - 2007
HEALY & JURAVICH - Great Chazy River - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES – When We Love – Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes – 2017

Terrorism:
SONIA RUTSTEIN - I Am the Enemy - No Bomb Is Smart – 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013
RACHAEL SAGE - Disarm Distrust - The Tide - 2017
MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - I Will Not Be Broken - Time to Fly - 2018

Politics:
GRANT PEEPLES - It Could Be A Long Night - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - King of the Whole Wide World (Dave Gordon) - Higher Ground - 2008
RACHAEL SAGE - Tomorrow (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017
RON ISRAEL - Talking World War III Blues (Revisited) - Homeless in America - 2017
ROD MacDONALD - Joe Public - Later That Night - 2014

Immigration:
LUCY KAPLANSKY/RICHARD SHINDELL/ DAR WILLIAMS - Cathedrals: Cry Cry Cry (Jump Little Children) - Single - 2018
GRANT PEEPLES - More for Us - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018
ROD MacDONALD - The Python Song - 3 New Songs 11-17 - 2017
CROWES PASTURE - Edge of America - Edge of America - 2017
DAVID ROTH/KAREN DRUCKER/JD MARTIN - Home of the Brave – Single – 2017

War/Inhumanity:
JOHN PRINE - Some Humans Ain't Human - American Folk – 2018 American Folk Records
JOE PURDY & AMBER RUBARTH - This Old Guitar - American Folk - 2018
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - War for Sale - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Streets of Sarajevo - Untold - 2009
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Genocide/Native American:
THE BOXCAR LILIES - In This Valley - Sugar Shack - 2013
KEVIN DUDLEY - Indian Joe - Rain Follows the Plow - Sampler CD - 2014
BYRD & STREET - The Good Old Days - This Much Is True - 2017

Earth's Beauty:
MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Closer to God - Time to Fly - 2018

Friday, February 9, 2018

Playlist for 1/31/18

Congrats to Taj and Keb' Mo for Grammy Best Contemporary Blues Album:
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' – All Around the Word (Kevin R Moore/Chic Street Man) - TajMo - 2017
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Om Sweet Om (Kevin R Moore/ohn Lewis Parker/Om Johari) - TajMo - 2017
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo – 2017

Results of War:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Dark Side of this Town - Ghost Light - 2018
RODNEY BROWN - Casualty of War - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
HEATHER MALONEY - Involuntary - Make Me Break - 2015
PAUL SIMON - The Riverbank - Stranger to Stranger - 2016

Religion/Values:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Me and Jesus - Ghost Light - 2018
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - Who Would Jesus Bomb - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
SCOTT COOK - If He Showed Up Now - Further Down the Line - 2017

Refugees:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Story of Abe - Ghost Light - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Send Them Back - Letter to My Landlord - 2016
CHIP TAYLOR - Refugee Children - Little Brothers – 2016
BRUCE T. CARROLL - When Two Worlds Collide - Ruckus and Romance – 2016
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Over the Divide - Echo in the Valley - 2017

Development/Cultural & Environmental Destruction:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
TIM GRIMM - Sam's Song - The Back Fields - 2005
DAN SCHATZ- The Kind Land (Gordon Bok) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New - 2005

Stand Up Against Fascism:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Machine - Ghost Light - 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Today in Charlottesville - Single - 2017
CHUCK BRODSKY - Not A Single Shot - Tell Tale Heart - 2015

End of Life Celebration:
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - To Hear Doc Watson Play - Aragon Mill/The Bluegrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
FREEBO - Standing Ovation - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - When My Fight for Life Is Over (Woody Guthrie/John McCutcheon) - Ghost Light - 2018

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Playlist for 1/24/18

JOE SCARBOROUGH - Stand - Single - 2018

Trump:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Bible - Trolling for Dreams - 2017
GRANT PEEPLES - More for Us - Single - 2017
TIM GRIMM - Gonna Be Great - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
Up & Down Theatre - Make America Great Again - Single - 2016
RACHAEL SAGE - Tomorrow (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017

Immigration:
CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - Who's Gonna Build That Wall - Single - 2016
PHAT - There Be Monsters Here - Live - 2017
ROD MacDONALD - The Python Song - 3 New Songs 11-17 – 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Upon Our Shores - Single - 2015
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Those Left Behind:
MARIA DUNN - You Can't Take That Away - The Peddler - 2008
PRICE SISTERS - Widow of the Mountain (Twangtown Paramours) - A Heart Never Knows - 2018
THE PIEDMONT MELODY MAKERS - Poor Little Orphaned Boy - Wonderful World Outside – 2016
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Home - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
MICAH & MARK ATKINSON - A Miner's Wife - Land of Broken Angels - 2016

Black Lives Matter:
AUDREY & ORWELL - Rapture - Stairwells - 2011
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Old Songs for Modern Folk - 2016
PAUL SACHS - The Witness - Love Is Love – 2016
DAVID ROVICS – I Can't Breathe - The Other Side - 2015
BREE NEWSOME - Stay Strong - Single - 2014

Politics:
LYNNE TAYLOR - Grand Empire - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
LEONARD COHEN - The Future - The Future - 1992 Sony Music
JOHN COSTER - Walk So Proud - Lost Horizon - 2013
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Tea Party People - Real American - 2010
ALASTAIR MOOCK - Make It Great - Alastair Moock - 2017

Stand Up/Speak Out:
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
HEATHER MAE - Stand Up - I Am Enough - 2016
PHIL OCHS - When I'm Gone - Phil Ochs - In Concert - 1966 Elektra

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Playlist for 1/1018

HEATHER PIERSON – Take A Deep Breath and Smile – Singin' – 2017

Palestine/BDS:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Bricks from the Wall - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - Boycott Call Is Comin' (Andrew Kadi) - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 – 2015
DAVE LIPPMAN - More Dead and Gaza Moans - Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015
JOEL ZOSS - Oh, Jerusalem - Lila - 2016
DAVID ROVICS - Gaza- When I'm Elected President - 2014

lABOR:
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Song About A Miner - Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Handful of Earth (The Worker's Song) (Ed Pickford) - Wayfaring Stranger - 2014
JOE JENCKS with Ysaye Barnwell and Tret Fure - Hands (Phil Ochs) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017
RON POPE - Work - Work - 2017
SAM GLEAVES - Working Shoes - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

LGBTQ:
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Annie - (Fred Small) - Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
SAM GLEAVES - Ain't We Brothers - Ain't We Brothers - 2015
CARRIE FERGUSON - Girls Like Me - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009
PAT HUMPHRIES - People Love - Hands - 2001 Appleseed
CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Everything Possible (Fred Small) – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

Gun Control:
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Not Another Gun (John Fisher/James Durst) - Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
LEON ROSSELSON - Child Killers - Harry's Gone Fishing - 2000 Gadfly
EFRAT - Bring Me Peace - The Silver Lining - 2015
ABBIE GARDNER - I Can't Believe - Wishes on a Neon Sign - 2018
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgive Us - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

Martin Luther King:
BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love (Greg Greenway) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013
ERIC BALKEY - Atticus Taught Me - 2012 Single
GEOFF BARTLEY - Litany for January 15 (Chip Quinn) - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012
JANET BATES - Martin - For All of His Wealth - 2007
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Let Us Begin - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012

Speak Out:
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - When I Sing My Song- Diamonds and Pearls - 2017
JOHN O'CONNOR - Waiting - Rare Songs - 2018
BEV GRANT - National Anthem: Arise! Arise! (Jean Rohe) - It's Personal - 2017

Playlist for 1/3/18

Happy New Year:
THE COPPER PONIES & JOE CROOKSTON - It's A New Year Now - Happy Holidays, Vol. 7 - 2012 Hudson Harding Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - Another New Year - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings
FRED ARCOLEO with Amy Soucy - New Year's - Hudson Harding Sampler, Vol. 7 - 2012

Prejudice:
HEATHER MAE - Stand Up - I Am Enough - 2016
PAT HUMPHRIES - I'll Be There - Hands - 2001 Appleseed
CHIP TAYLOR & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ - Who's Gonna Build That Wall - Single - 2016
WINDBORNE- The Diggers' Song (Words: Gerrard Winstanley) - Song on the Times - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Just Humans - Single - 2017

Refugees:
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Over the Divide - Echo in the Valley - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Denmark, 1943 - The Other Side - 2015
THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt – 2017
MIKE VIAL - Girl on the Mountain, Boy on the Beach - A World That's Bigger - 2016
THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein


Coal Mining:
WINDBORNE - I Can Hew (Davey Dodds)- Lay Around that Shack - 2015
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Pennsylvania Miner - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
ANNE FEENEY - School Days End (Ewan MacColl) - Enchanted Way - 2010
PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Come All You Coal Miners - Echo in the Valley – 2017
WINDBORNE - Greenland Fisheries - Lay Around that Shack - 2015
EAGLE McCALL - The Bonnie Ship, The Diamond - Song of the Seas - 2012 Michael E. Bryant
RUNA - Farewell to Tarwathie - Live -2016
MAGPIE - Song of the Whales - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records

Whaling:
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Don't Let It Bring You Down - Echo in the Valley – 2017
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Four Wise Monkeys - Four Wise Monkeys – 2012
MARA LEVINE - You Reap What You Sow (Susan B Shann) - 2017
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
HEATHER PIERSON - Righteous Song - Singin' - 2017

Conscience/Keepin' On:

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - If I Could Talk to a Younger Me - Echo in the Valley - 2017
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN – Tree of Life - If All the Land Would Rise – 2005
HUDSON VALLEY SALLY – Gracias a la Vida (Violeta Parra) – Diamonds and Pearls – 2017