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