Playlist for 10/13/21

 JENNIFER CUTTING'S OCEAN ORCHESTRA - Leaves of Autumn - Waves - 2017

Indigenous People's Day:

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Generation - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music

MARIA DUNN - When the Grandmothers Meet - Gathering - 2016

PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco) - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

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

Refugees:

DIANA JONES with Peggy Seeger, Steve Earle & Richard Thompson - El Chapparal - Song to A Refugee - 2021

MICHAEL & NELL -  No Man's Land - Welcome Home - 2020

RAUL ZURITA – Desiertos 4 – Border Songs – 2012

DUO GUARDABARRANCO -  Cancion Pequena – Border Songs 2012

SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013

DIANA JONES - Song to A Refugee- Song to A Refugee - 2021

Re-release of Si Kahn's Been A Long Time:

SI KAHN - Been A Long Time - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN – Just A Lie - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Brown Lung Blues - Been A Long Time – 2021

Interview with Si Kahn on his release of Been A Long Time

SI KAHN - Where the Song Never Ends - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Houses on the Hill - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Tarpaper Shacks - Been A Long Time - 2021

Ordinary Elephant at Mt. Toby Concerts, 10/16:

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - I Come From - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Jenny & James - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - If I Am Being Honest - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Before I Go - Before I Go - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT – Thank You - Before I Go - 2017

For the Spirit:

JOSEPH FIRECROW - Silent Warrior - Face the Music - 2009

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Stand for Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

Playlist for 10/6/21

 PAT LAMANNA - October - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Earth:

BEN BEDFORD -  PrairyErth- The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016

MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Closer to God - Time to Fly - 2018

SUSAN SHANN - Price on Heaven - Reckless Abandon - 2018

RICHEY BELLINGER  - Mountain Song - The Well Is For Water - 2018 Metolius River Studio

LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005

Oil Spills:

DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com

STEVE FORBERT - The Oil Song - 2010 www.steveforbert.com

CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

What's Wrong, America:

LARRY FOLK - Feeling Lost in America - Single - 2021

JACKSON BROWNE - The Long Way Around - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

TERRY KITCHEN - Sequel - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.

LULA WILES - Good Old Amercan Values - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Real America - Real American - 2010

Capital Punishment:

THE QUIET AMERICAN - Wild Bill Jones - Wild Bill Jones – 2013

TOM PACHECO - Texecution - Luminol - 2012

ANNE HILLS - Iron Lady - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

GRANT PEEPLES - The Hanging - Pawnshop - 2000

ROY ZIMMERMAN - DWB - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

Racism:

3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013

DAVID ROVICS - Watch Out for the Cops - Meanwile in Afghanistan - 2013

J COLE - Be Free - Single - 2014

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest - 2019

Ordinary Elephant at Mt. Toby Concerts 10/16:

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Who I Am - Before I Go - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The War - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The Things He Saw - Before I Go - 2017

Playlist for 9/29

Autumn:

PADDY MILLS - It's Getting Cold - The Good Life - 2016

COVID-19:

DAVID ROTH - When the Universe Is Ready - Single - 2020

DAVID ROVICS - Precipice - Notes Fom A Failed State - 2020

MARSH FAMILY - Have the New Jab (Marsh Family/Leonard Cohen) - Single 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - When All This Is Over- Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

What's Wrong/Economy:

JOE JENCKS - I Will Shout Youngstown (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles – 2011

JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's the Economy, Stupid - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs

TIM GRIMM - Rumblin' in the Land (Tom Paxton) - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

CONNOR GARVEY - Hold Your Breath - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

Politics:

THE NIELDS et al - America the Beautiful - Single - 2020

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017

JAMES LEE STANLEY - Political Party - The Envoy - 1993

DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010

CHATHAM STREET - House of Fools - All That Mattered - 2011

Abortion:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

PETE KRONOWITT - Body, Choice & Mind - A Lone Voice - 2016

ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- Nobody's Body But Mine (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020 Strictly Country Records

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Am A Woman - Revolution Now – 2017

Labor/Inequality:

SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020

BYRD & STREET - Workin' Man - This Much Is True - 2017

TERRY KITCHEN - Ninety-nine - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire

WINDBORNE- Song of the Lower Classes (Ernest Jones/Ian Robb) - Song on the Times - 2017

ARTHUR DAVENPORT - The Rich Man Always Gets His Pay - Jonathan Leviathan – 2020

Dance:

JOHNSMITH - Old Flag Floor - Ginkgo - 2018

DENNIS CARAHER - Snapdragons - Radio Boy - 2006

ANDY & JUDY - Dancing in the Breeze - This Old Town - 2017

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Dancin' in the Kitchen – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005

Playlist for 9/22/21

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

Hurricanes:

PATRICK SYLVEST - The Ballad of Hurricane Isaac - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014

CROWES PASTURE - The Storm - Edge of America – 2017

FRICTION FARM - Louisiana (Rise Up Like the Water) - Believe - 2004 Quinn & Stay

PAT WICTOR - Make Levees Not War - Mission Street Project/Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music

RUSTIC RIDERS - The Storm Is Coming - Wake Up! - 2015

Climate Change:

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - When I Was Your Age - Parts & Labor - 2014

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Won't Be Long – Ladies & Gentlemen - 2016

TERRY KITCHEN - Nature's Way - The Quiet Places – 2017

NORMAN BLAKE - How the Weary World Wears Away - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal – 2017

Capital Punishment:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Dead Man Walking - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs

DAVID ROVICS - The Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg - Punk Baroque – 2017

CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

MILLPOND MOON - Lena Baker - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015

PAT WICTOR - The Trial (Phil Ochs) – This Is Absolutely Real: Visions & Versions of Phil Ochs – 2017

Pinochet military coup/Chile:

DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

HOLLY NEAR- Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida - And Still We Sing: The Outspoken Collection - 2002 Calico Tracks Music

OLD-TIME PHARMACEUTICALS - Joan and Victor Jara - Roots & Honey - 2020

ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara (Adrian Mitchell/Arlo Guthrie) - Amigo - 2008

RESISTANCE REVIVAL CHORUS with RHIANNON GIDDENS - All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Woody Guthrie) - Single - 2020

Occupy Wall Street:

MICHAEL HOWARD - Meet Me at the Front Lines - Gasoline Dream - 2016

DAVID ROVICS- Stay Right Here - Single - 2011

MAKANA - We Are the Many - Ripe - 2013

Peace:

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage -  2010 Strictly Country Records

ANNIE PATTERSON - O Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seeger) - Mountain Side - 2011

SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013

Playlist for 9/15/21

 LUDGATE - End of Summer - Two, Three, Four...(Vol Two) - 2019

GREG BROWN - Canned Goods -  Live on Prairie Home Companion - 1985

Diversity:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Other - Bucket List - 2020

CARLA GOVER & ZOEY BARRETT - Snowflake - The Longest Night of the Year, V.1 - 2018 Hudson Harding Music

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Am You (Anne Hills & Michael Smith) - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

ROBERT JONES & MATT WATROBA - Could You Love Me? - Common Chords - 2019

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – I Belong to A Family – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

Injustice/Prisons:

JOE TROOP - The Rise of Dreama Caldwell - Borrowed Time - 2021

JOE JENCKS - The Lady Juliana (Kat Eggleston) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

CHARLIE KING - Shoes - So Far…So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

DERVISH - The Fields of Athenry (Pete St. John) - The Great Irish Songbook - 2019 Rounder Records

CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021

Racism/White supremacy:

LULA WILES - Shaking As It Turns - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

DAVID ROVICS -  Breivik - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

CHUCK BRODSKY - Couldn't Do What Daddy Done - Them and Us - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Atonement - Bucket List - 2020

Sanctuary/Refuge:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Le Chambon-sur-Lignon - Bucket List - 2020

CARRIE NEWCOMER - Sanctuary - The Beautiful Not Yet - 2016

DAVID ROVICS - Denmark, 1943 -  The Other Side - 2015

ZOE MULFORD - Answer the Knock at the Door - Small Brown Birds - 2017

DAVID ROTH - Home of the Brave (David Roth/Karen Drucker/JD Martin) - Last Day on This Earth - 2017 May the Light Music

Outlaws/Moonshiners:

DOUG SPEARS - Yellow Butter Moon - Welcome Home - 2009

KAIA KATER - Moonshiner - Sorrow Bound - 2014

SI KAHN - Moonshine Man - New Wood - 1994 Rounder

GILLIAN WELCH - Tear My Stillhouse Down - Boots No. 1 - 2016

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Moonshiner - Bucket List - 2020

Paul Kaplan at Mt. Toby Concerts 9/18:

PAUL KAPLAN - Survival - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - Life on This Planet - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

PAUL KAPLAN & Leverett Community Chorus - After the Fire - Single -  2002

Playlist for 9/8/21

Storms: 

RUSTIC RIDERS - The Storm Is Coming - Wake Up! - 2015

CROWES PASTURE - The Storm - Edge of America - 2017

Labor/Inequality:

HOLLY NEAR - Moon (Holly Near/Tammy Hall) - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music

MICHAEL BRAUNFELD - The Local - Full Circle - 2014

JOHN McCUTCHEON & TOM CHAPIN - Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) - Doing Our Job - 1997 Rounder Records

BYRD & STREET - Workin' Man - This Much Is True - 2017

SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020

Coal Mining:

JESSE BROCK - Black Rock City - Streamliner - 2021

JENI & BILLY - Land of the Pharaohs - Jewell Ridge Coal - 2008

SAM GLEAVES - Working Shoes - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Come All You Coal Miners - Echo in the Valley - 2017

HAZEL DICKENS - Coal Tattoo - A Few Old Memories - 1984

Women in Labor:

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel)  - Union Maid - 2003

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 

CURTIS & LORETTA - Willmar 8 (We Are All Equal You Know) - When There's Good to Be Done - 2015

AMYTHYST KIAH and RHIANNON GIDDENS - Polly Ann's Hammer - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

Unions/Organizing:

DAVID ROVICS - When the Workers of the World Combine - May Day - 2021

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Bread & Roses - Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes - 2017

TOM JURAVICH - We Are Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

PAT HUMPHRIES - No Sweat (Bev Grant/Pat Humphries) - Hands - 2001

JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005

9/11:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Short Shift at Ground Zero - Simplicity - 2002

PAUL KAPLAN & Leverett Community Chorus - After the Fire - Single -  2002

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

SEIZE THE DAY - United States - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard

DAVID ROVICS - Hang A Flag in the Window - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

CARRIE NEWCOMER - Sanctuary - The Beautiful Not Yet - 2016

Playlist for 9/1/21

 COSY SHERIDAN - It's Gonna Get Better - A Beautiful Sound - 2021

National Recovery Month:

RICHARD RUANE & BETH DUQUETTE - Come on Back- Notch Road  - 2018 Riptone Records

THE BLACK FEATHERS - Holy Water - Demo - 2018

SCOTT COOK - Tulsa - Tangle of Souls - 2020

CHUCK BRODSKY - The Absence of You - Them and Us - 2018

DAVID ROTH – Taking Our Turns (David Roth/Megon McDonough) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music

World Alzheimer's Month:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Remember Me - Single - 2021

ANNE FEENEY - The Dutchman (Michael Smith) - Enchanted Way - 2010

DAN AND FAITH - Come Again Another Day - Then and Now - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The Things He Saw - Before I Go - 2017

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Between Good and Gone - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

Women's Lib:

COSY SHERIDAN - I Leave Dishes in the Sink - A Beautiful Sound - 2021

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Hypatia of Alexandria - We Are Welcomed - 2016

SLOAN WAINWRIGHT - Thinking Outside of the Box - Bright Side of A Rainy Day - 2016

ASHLEY STORROW - Sweet Matilda - The Bear and the Bird - 20164

KRISTEN GRAINGER & TRUE NORTH - She Flies With Her Own Wings - Ghost Tatoo - 2020

Poverty:

SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020

GILLIAN WELCH - Annabelle - Boots No. 1 - 2016 Acony

GEOFF BARTLEY - Money Is King - Put the Big Stone Down - 2009

SHERRY BROKUS - Aliceanna St - Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus - Collection: 2008-2018 - 2020

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - Everything That Happens Makes Me Stronger (David Roth et al) - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

Farming:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Farmer - Bucket List - 2020

GORDON BOK - Hills of Dover (Margaret MacArthur/John Nutting) - Together Again for the First Time - 2017

DAVE GUNNING - Celebrate the Crop - Up Against the Sky - 2019 Wee House of Music

CRANDALL CREEK - The Bean Song - Single - 2020

TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009

Hope:

THE ACCIDENTALS - All Shall Be Well (Mary Gauther/Jaimee Harris/Sav Buist/Katie Larson) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

SARA THOMSEN - Song Like A Seed - Song Like A Seed - 2020

KATHERINE RHODA - Bright Morning Stars - Songs of Freedom, Struggle and Spirit -2009

KATHERINE RHODA – May We Fly Like Eagles - Songs of Freedom, Struggle and Spirit -2009

Playlist for 8/25/21

My Favorite Singer-Songwriters:

SI KAHN - Aragon Mill - New Wood - 1994 Rounder

SI KAHN - Washington Square - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

SI KAHN - I Have Seen Freedom - Best of the Rest - 2019 Strictly Country Records

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin (T.R. Ritchie) - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

SARA THOMSEN - By Breath - By Breath - 2003

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Christmas in the Trenches - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Y'all Means All - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

JOE JENCKS - On Eireann's Shore - Links in A Chain - 2009

BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel)  - Union Maid - 2003

ANNE FEENEY - Whatever Happened to the Eight Hour Day? - Union Maid - 2003

ANNE FEENEY - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

DAVID ROVICS - Meanwhile in Afghanistan -  Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013

DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion – People's History in Song - 2010

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

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal - 2017

SAM GLEAVES - Ain't We Brothers - Ain't We Brothers – 2015

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - When We Love - Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew -  Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Playlist for 8/11/21

SARA THOMSEN - Turning of the World (Ruth Pelham) - By Breath - 2003

Climate Change:

AARON NATHANS & MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Old Waltzes  and Skylights - Hang On for the Ride - 2017

TRET FURE - Roses in November - Roses in November- 2018

EMILY BARKER - Strange Weather - A Dark Murmuration of Words - 2020

JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records

ZOE SPEAKS - The Earth Has Had Enough  - Wings - 2018

Poverty and Violence:

ELVIS PRESLEY - In the Ghetto (Mac Davis) – Elvis in Memphis – 1969 RCA Victor

MILLPOND MOON - Lena Baker - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015

GORDONVILLE, U.S.A. - Ceiling Is the Floor - Single - 2021

SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004

AMBER CROSS - Storms of Scarcity - Savage on the Downhill - 2017

Anti-War:

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo - 2017

BARBARA DANE - Study War No More - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

ANDY & JUDY - Go Home Cajun Boy - Reflections - 2018 

THE LUCKY NOWS - Goodnight - Rise - 2018 Blind Justice Music

TIM GRIMM - My Turn - The Back Fields - 2005

War/Those Left Behind:

AMY SPEACE - The Weight of the World - The Killer in Me - 2008 Wildflower Records

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

THE MAMMALS - Alone on the Homestead - Departure - 2006 Humble Abode Music

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Home - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

Freedom:

SARA THOMSEN - Freedom Song - By Breath - 2003

MARY COURTNEY - The Seeds of Freedom - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003 Completely Stone Mad Music

JACKSON BROWNE - Walls and Doors - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

DULCIE TAYLOR - Not Here, Not Today - Wind Over Stone – 2015

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

One Earth:

SARA THOMSEN - By Breath - By Breath – 2003

Playlist for 8/4/21

 GREG BROWN - Canned Goods -  Live on Prairie Home Companion - 1985

Atomic Age:

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

LINQ - Living On the Edge of Disaster - Disconnect - 2013

SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

ANNE FEENEY - Take Them Down - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

Hiroshima/Nagasaki:

DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Hercules and Einstein - Sorry State - 2020

GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand (Nazim Hikmet/James Waters) - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004

MAKANA - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Single - 2020

FRED SMALL - Cranes Over Hiroshima - No Limit - 1985

WWII:

DAVID FRANCEY - Crucible - Empty Train - 2016

DAVID ROVICS –Liberty and Justice for All - The Other Side - 2015

THE MALVINAS - The Ukranian Song - God Bless the Grass - 2017

PAUL KAPLAN --I Can't Remember Wintertime -  The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music

JOE JENCKS - Children of Trochenbrod - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

Homelessness:

CHRIS PIERCE - Bring the Old Man Home- American Silence - 2021

MIKE WARD - No Way to Live - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

SCOTT COOK - Just Enough Empties - Tangle of Souls - 2020

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - If the Poor Don't Matter  (Tom Paxton) - Shout and Shine - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sheltered in Place - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

Sexual Harassment/Abuse:

KATHLEEN HEALY - Speaking Out - Embracing the Journey - 2018

DELLA MAE - Headlight - Headlight  - 2020

THREE MILES LOST - Til It Happens to You (Lady Gaga) - 2016  Sled Dog Studios

CINDY KALLET - I Used to Go Walking - This Way Home - 2000

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Believe Her - I Believe Her - Single - 2018

Songs for the Spirit:

REBB FIRMAN - Let It Rain (Firman/Freebo/Garrett/Olesen) - Songs I Left Behind - 2017

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - All Around the World (Kevin R Moore/Chic Street Man) - TajMo - 2017

Playlist for 7/28/21

COVID-19:

MARSH FAMILY - Have the New Jab (Marsh Family/Leonard Cohen) - Single 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - These Are the Days - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

CATHERINE MacLELLAN & CHRYS MATTHEWS - More Than It Took - Single - 2021 Folk Alliance

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Front Line - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

TIM GRIMM - Gone - Gone - 2021

Fascism:

JIM PAGE - Masters Of Lies - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017

DAVID ROVICS - Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree - 2020 Single

ROD MacDONALD - For the Good of America - Recognition - 2003

RESISTANCE REVIVAL CHORUS with RHIANNON GIDDENS - All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Woody Guthrie) - Single – 2020

FRICTION FARM - There Will Always Be - Evidence of Hope - 2021

Democracy Threatened:

TIM GRIMM - Gonna Be Great - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

SHARLEEN LEAHEY - Corporate News - Rumors of Peace - 2011

HARPETH RISING - 535 (Are You Even Alive?) - Against All Tides - 2017

SI KAHN and The Looping Brothers - Hard Times - It's A Dog's Life - 2019

GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - This Fair Land - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004

Labor/Outsourcing:

MARGHI ALLEN - Freedom Train - Little Pieces of My Heart - 2014

ANGELA EASTERLING - Throwing Strikes - Common Law Wife - 2015 De L'est Music

MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS - That Old Machine - Grain by Grain - 2016

JUD CASWELL - Watch the Fall - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019

TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

Corporate Greed:

TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009

JAN HAMMARLUND - Free Enterprise (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music

DAVE GUNNING - This Changin' Wind (Dave Gunning/Ray Stewart) - Lift - 2015 Wee House of Music

JOE JENCKS - You Don't Have the Right - I Hear Your Voice - 2003

JIM PAGE - Over My Dead Body - Collateral Damage - 2002

Songs for the Spirit:

JOE TROOP - Heaven on Earth - Borrowed Time - 2021

NATURE MAN - ALBERT PIERRE - Community - Courage to Courageousness - 2021

FOREST SUN - Let Your Love Shine - Stubborn Breathing Heart – 2021

TERRY KITCHEN - Stonecutter - First Album (Remastered) - 2021 (1991)

Playlist for 7/21/21

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

Racism:

DAVID ROVICS - State House Lawn -  The Other Side - 2015

AMYTHYST KIAH/RHIANNON GIDDENS/LEYLA McCALLA/ALLISON RUSSELL -  Black Myself - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

LEYLA McCALLA/RHIANNON GIDDENS/ALLISON RUSSELL- I Knew I Could Fly - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

PROFESSOR LOUIE - Without Justice - Be for Real - 1996

CRYS MATTHEWS – We Must Be Free - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

Poverty:

JOE TROOP - Red, White & Blues - Borrowed Time - 2021

NATURE MAN - ALBERT PIERRE - Community - Courage to Courageousness - 2021

FINEST KIND - Song of the Lower Classes - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music

KAIA KATER - Paradise Fell - Nine Pin - 2016

ANDY & JUDY - Street Lady (Andy Morris/Judy Daigle) - This Old Town - 2017

Conscience:

ALICIA VIANI - Good Man - Alicia Viani - 2019

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

SAM GLEAVES - The Golden Rule - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

JOHN PRINE - Caravan of Fools (John Prine/Dan Auerbach/Pat Mclaughlin)  - The Tree Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records

ARNOLD BENNETT - Be the Change - Summer's Voice -  2007 Red Sea Records

Addiction:

LULA WILES - Morphine - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

TIFFANY WILLIAMS - You Were Mine - When You Go - 2019

CHICAGO FARMER - Rocco N' Susie - Midwest Side Stories - 2016

ERIC GERBER - The Law and the Lonesome (Jonathan Byrd/Corin Raymond) - Three - 2017

MARION HALLIDAY - Still Burning - Rings Around Saturn - 2019

Guantanamo Prison:

HARLEY STRING BAND  -  Guantanamo - Didn't Come to Stay Long  -  2007

KEVIN SO - Letter from Guantanomo - Best Foot Forward - 2009

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Rain - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Afghanistan:

DAVID ROVICS - Meanwhile in Afghanistan -  Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013

JON BROOKS – Jim's Lonely Prayer – Ours and the Shepherds - 2007

Songs for the Spirit:

JOE TROOP - Heaven on Earth - Borrowed Time - 2021

NATURE MAN - ALBERT PIERRE - Community - Courage to Courageousness - 2021

FOREST SUN - Let Your Love Shine - Stubborn Breathing Heart – 2021

Playlist for 7/14/21

 DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER - Celia Says - Joy My Love - 2018

For the Birds:

HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song (H. Masse/Nicky Mehta) - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records

STILL ON THE HILL - Woe Whoa - Still A River  - 2016

DAN ZANES & Friends - Red Bird (Lead Belly) - Lead Belly, Baby! - 2017 Smithsonian Folkways

JIM SHARKEY - I'll Take Care of You - A Lovely Day - 2019

Democracy:

HEALY & JURAVICH -  Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

HARPETH RISING - 535 (Are You Even Alive?) - Against All Tides - 2017

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017

HOLLY NEAR - Coup d'Etat - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music

LEONARD COHEN - Democracy - The Future - 1992 Sony Music

Republicans:

Z-FLO - The Republican Song - Single - 2020

ROD MacDONALD - Young Republicans in Love - Later That Night - 2014

ROY ZIMMERMAN - My Conservative Girlfriend - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Bug Music

ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Big Republican Tent  - Single - 2015

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Vote Republican - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records

Climate Change:

STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - California - Windows - 2019 Icebird Records

DAVID ROVICS - Famine, Flood and Fire - Ballad of A Wobbly - 2017

SUE and DWIGHT - Mercury Rising - Little Child Big World - 2008

JANET BATES - A Canary in a Coal Mine - The Little Spinner - 2009

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal - 2017

Cuba:

SILVIO RODRIGUEZ - Sueno con Serpientes - 1975

SILVIO RODRIGUEZ - Playa Giron - Dias y Flores - 1975

CHRISTY MOORE - The Companeros (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records

PHIL OCHS - Talking Cuban Crisis - All the News That's Fit to Sing – 1964

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Guantanamera (Jose Marti/Julian Orbon/Hector /Angula/Pete Seeger) - To Everyone in All the World/A Celebration of Pete Seeger - 2019 Appalseed Prods.

Songs for the Spirit:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Am You (Anne Hills & Michael Smith) - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

TRUE NORTH - One Voice (Ruth Moody) - Elsebound - 2014

Playlist for 7/7/21

Politics: 

ROD MacDONALD – Ray & Ron - A Tale of Two Americas - 2011

ROD MacDONALD - A Tale of Two Americas - A Tale of Two Americas - 2011

THE NIELDS et al - America the Beautiful - Single - 2020

Chris Smither, Dar Williams, Vance Gilbert, Peter Mulvey, Kalliope Jones, and Ben Demerath

MURRAY McLAUCHLAN - America - Hourglass - 2021

LOIS MORTON - Bipartisan - Loving America - Thinking It Through - 2019

Outlaws:

MICHAEL J. MILES - Vincent Black Lightening (Richard Thompson) - New Century Suite - 2021

DAVID GRISMAN et al - Pancho & Lefty (Townes Van Zandt) - Old & in the Gray – 2002

SIS CUNNINGHAM/MIKE MILLIUS/WES HOUSTON - Jesse James - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways

WOODY GUTHRIE - Billy the Kid - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways

JOHN COSTER - Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - Lost Horizon - 2013

Home:

FOREST SUN - Take Me Home - Single - 2021

DAVID FERRARD  - Calling My Children Home - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Home – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

TIM GRIMM - Finding Home - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - My Stone Mountain Home -  Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Refugees:

DIANA JONES - Song to A Refugee- Song to A Refugee - 2021

DIANA JONES with Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger, Zara Phillips - We Believe You- Song to A Refugee - 2021

KORA FEDER - Child on the Move - In Sevens - 2019

BETT PADGETT - Don't Take My Child from Me - Single - 2018

THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein

Gun Control:

CHRISTINE LAVIN - More Than One Million Americans - Happydance Of The Xenophobe - 2007 Yellow Tail Records

DAVID ROVICS - Angry White American Man - The Other Side - 2015

SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004

RACHAEL SAGE - Disarm Distrust (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017

CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me -1997

Hope:

MICHAEL FRANTI - Hey World (Don't Give Up) - All Rebel Rockers - 2008

PAUL KAPLAN with the Leverett Chorus - After the Fire - Paul Kaplan -  2002

TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1 - 2012

Summer:

ALICE HOWE - Tiger Lily - Tiger Lily EP - 2014

Playlist for 6/30/21

4th of July: 

JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010

DAN  & CLAUDIA ZANES - Reparations Is A Must - Let Love Be Your Guide - 2021

BLUE O'CONNELL - American Song - Single -1990

MICHAEL VEITCH - Happy Fourth of July - Wake up Call - 2017

GRANT PEEPLES - The 4th Of July Parade Song - Indiscretion - 2014

 LGBTQ Pride Month:

LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs

CARRIE FERGUSON - Girls Like Me - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009

SAM GLEAVES - Two Virginia Boys - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Everything Possible (Fred Small) – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

PAT HUMPHRIES - People Love - Hands - 2001 Appleseed

Refugees:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

DIANA JONES with Peggy Seeger, Steve Earle & Richard Thompson - El Chapparal - Song to A Refugee - 2021

THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein

THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt - 2017

Earth's Extinction:

JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time - 2021

TOM NEILSON -  Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal – 2017

Politics:

LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021

COLLEEN KATTAU - This Wall - In My Name - 2012

CHRIS PIERCE - American Silence - American Silence - 2021

CHUCK BRODSKY - Them and Us - Them and Us - 2018

CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010

Songs for the Spirit:

JOE TROOP - Heaven on Earth - Borrowed Time - 2021

PATRICK SYLVEST - Collard Greens - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014

ERIKA KULNYS - Keep Your Feet Moving - 2016

Playlist for 6/23/21

 Summer solstice:

THE STEEL WHEELS - Until the Summer Comes - No More Rain - 2013

MARA LEVINE - Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin, Heyward DuBose) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

Coal mining dangers:

TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Widow of the Mountain - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records

TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess – 2010

JOHN McCUTCHEON et al  - Black Waters (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

BUDDY MONDLOCK - A Canary's Song (Garth Brooks/Buddy Mondlock) - The Memory Wall - 2013

HAZEL DICKENS - Coal Tattoo - A Few Old Memories - 1984

 Coal miners strikes:

SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Come All You Coal Miners - Echo in the Valley - 2017

JIM SHARKEY - Mother Jones - A Lovely Day - 2019

ARLO GUTHRIE with the Dillards - Ludlow Massacre (Woody Guthrie) - Thirty-two Cents - 2008 Rising Son Records

LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain (Louise Mosrie/Mike Richardson) - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music

Climate change:

ALLISON LUPTON & CRAIG WERTH - When Trouble Comes - Single - 2020

EMILY BARKER - Strange Weather - A Dark Murmuration of Words - 2020

JIM PAGE - Down to Zero - Single - 2020

STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - California - Windows - 2019 Icebird Records

THE MASTERSONS - No Time for Love Songs -  No Time for Love Songs- 2021

Homelessness/Poverty:

MIKE WARD - No Way to Live - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011

RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

DAVID ROVICS - A Dream Foreclosed - Everything Can Change - 2013

Injustice:

JOE JENCKS - The Lady Juliana (Kat Eggleston) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

CHARLIE KING - Shoes - So Far…So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

MARIA DUNN - Do You Know Slim Evans? - We Were Good People - 2004

DERVISH - The Fields of Athenry (Pete St. John) - The Great Irish Songbook - 2019 Rounder Records

CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021

Playlist for 6/16/21

 EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Clearwater Tune - Single - 2021

Whistle Blowers:

DAVID ROVICS - Reality Winner -  Strangers & Friends - 2020

SON VOLT - Reality Winner -  Union - 2019

TOM NEILSON - It's A Crime - It's A Crime to Tell the Truth - 2013

What's Wrong:

ERIC LONDON - World of Thieves - American Troubadour - 2020

GEOFF BARTLEY - Everything's for Sale - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012

LULA WILES - Shaking As It Turns - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

NORMAN BLAKE - There's A Storm Somewhere - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

KRAY VAN KIRK - O My Fathers - The Midnight Commander – 2020

What's Right:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet   (Jay Mankita) - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

COLLEEN KATTAU - Come with Me, Climb - The Living Years - 2013

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Brother, You Ought to Been There - Shout and Shine - 2018

JOE JENCKS with Edie Carey - Let It Rain - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

ANNIE PATTERSON - O Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seeger) - Mountain Side - 2011

Environment-Clean Air Day 6/17:

RON FETNER - Man on the Moon - In the Out Door - 2021

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Solar Carol ((Austin, Dorsey, King, Taylor) - Simplicity - 2002

MAGPIE - Power of the Wind - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Tree of Life - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

MALVINA REYNOLDS - The World's Gone Beautiful - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Juneteenth:

HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Get Off the Track  (Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.) - Activist Music Old and New- 2012

ALLISON RUSSELL/RHIANNON GIDDENS/LEYLA McCALLA - Quasheba, Quasheba - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More - 2006

CRABTREE & MILLS - The Price of Freedom - Freedom - 2008 Free & Easy Music

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board! - 2007 Appleseed Recordings

JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Dancing:

DENNIS CARAHER - Snapdragons - Radio Boy - 2006

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Dancin' in the Kitchen – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

Playlist for 6/9/21

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016

THE BARBALOOTS - Captain Key - Possum Came to Town - 2020

Nuclear Weapons:

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Hercules and Einstein - Sorry State – 2020

SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

HILLEL ARNOLD - Dance Around My Atom Fire (Woody Guthrie) - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet+

TERRI ROBEN - We Can Risk Disarmament - The Path We Make – 2008

MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

What's wrong – failed state:

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Sorry State - Sorry State - 2020

IAN ROBB - They're Taking It Away - From Different Angels - 1994

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Real America - Real American - 2010

BRUCE T. CARROLL - Fox in the Henhouse - Finding You - 2018

Inclusion – Racism:

THE BARBALOOTS - Possum Came to Town - Possum Came to Town - 2020

DENNIS WARNER - Carefully Taught - Pilot Me - 2020

COSY SHERIDAN & CHARLIE KOCH - My Fence & My Neighbor - My Fence & My Neighbor - 2018

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Welcome Table - Shout and Shine - 2018

MARA LEVINE - A Perfect Rose (Terry Kitchen) - Facets of Folk – 2019

Environment – Forests:

THE BARBALOOTS - Sawdust John - Possum Came to Town - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018

TIM GRIMM - Thirteen Years - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

JIM PAGE - Butterfly Wings - Gettin Squeezed – 1999

DENNIS WARNER - Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot) - Pilot Me - 2020

LGBTQ:

DENNIS WARNER - Michael - Pilot Me – 2020

COLLEEN KATTAU - Winter Came Early - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio

DAVID ROVICS - I Know A Man - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes - 2008

LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs

En-joy:

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Song of Joy (Ken Whiteley) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

SARA THOMSEN – May the Longtime Sun - By Breath - 2003

Playlist for 6/2/21

 TIM GRIMM - My Favorite Spring (Tom Paxton) - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

Memorial Day:

CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011

SALLY SPRING - Boys in the Cornfield - Made of Stars - 2010 Sniffinpup Records

RUSTIC RIDERS - We Remember - Hearing Hearts - 2008

SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World – 2007

DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

Freedom:

RHIANNON GIDDENS - Freedom Highway - Single - 2017

LULA WILES - In Dreams - Shame and Sedition - 2021

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Wings Like An Eagle ( Ola Belle Reed) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

BOB DYLAN - Chimes of Freedom - The Best of the Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music

SANDERS, KASS & WHITE - We Are Going (Woyaya) (T. Osei et al) - Feels Like Home - 1991

Aging/Women:

PEGGY SEEGER - The Invisible Woman - First Farewell - 2021

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Earned This Gray - Revolution Now - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Hope to Be That Happy - Honest - 2019

JULIE SNOW - Laugh or Cry - No Ordinary Love - 2016

MEGHAN CARY - Sing Louder - Sing Louder - 2017

What's Wrong:

THE ACCIDENTALS - Anyway (Sav Buist/Katie Larson/Tom Paxton) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021

GINA FORSYTH - Promised Land - Promised Land - 2012 Waterbug

KORA FEDER - Still We Write - In Sevens - 2019 

DON CARON - Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance - Single - 2018 The Parody Project

Fracking:

PEGGY SEEGER - Lubrication - First Farewell - 2021

ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire! - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

WOOL&GRANT - Get the Frack Outta Here (Bev Grant/Daniel A. Weiss) - Wool&Grant - 2013 Ina May Wool and Bev Grant

THE BURNS SISTERS - Gas Man - The Hills of Ithaca - 2012 Sisters Music

MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - Demo - 2011

Hope:

THE ACCIDENTALS - All Shall Be Well (Mary Gauther/Jaimee Harris/Sav Buist/Katie Larson) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

Matisyahu - One Day - Single - 2009

Playlist for 5/19/21

 

Spring:

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Redwinged Blackbird (David Francey) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

Palestine:

DAVID ROVICS - Watch the Buildings Crumble - Single - 2021

SHARON KLEIN - Borders of Stone - The Way Back Home - 2009

DARRYL PURPOSE - Song for Rachel Corrie - Next Time Around - 2012 Blue Rock Artists

DAVE LIPPMAN - Human Rights Man -  Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015

DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013

 What's wrong

TOM PRASADA-RAO - What's Going On (Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland) - Single 2021

RON ISRAEL - Living in a Strange World - Tribal War - 2018

KATE CAMPBELL - Damn Sure Blue (Kate Campbell/Tom Kimmel) - Damn Sure Blue - 2018

THE WHISPERING TREE - Fat Cat - Invisible Forces - 2018

AMY MARTIN - Hey Happy - Unbroken - 2001

Gun Control:

THE ADVOCATE COLLECTIVE - If It Were Up to Me (Cheryl Wheeler) - Single 2021

GORDONVILLE, U.S.A. - Too Late to Say Too Soon - Single - 2021

MARK STEPAKOFF - Making Guns - Any Port in a Storm – 2017

SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart – 2004

ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records

Poverty:

FINEST KIND - Song of the Lower Classes - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music

GEOFF BARTLEY - Money Is King - Put the Big Stone Down - 2009

GILLIAN WELCH - Annabelle - Boots No. 1 - 2016 Acony

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - If the Poor Don't Matter  (Tom Paxton) - Shout and Shine - 2018

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

Environmental destruction:

SI KAHN - Upstream - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

DAVID ROTH - When the Universe Is Ready - Single - 2020

EMILY BARKER - Where Have the Sparrows Gone - A Dark Murmuration of Words - 2020

PAT WICTOR - Well Well Well (Danny O'Keefe/Bob Dylan) - 2008

JANE ROSS FALLON - Sweet Amazon -  Songs on Purpose - 2016

Songs for the Spirit:

SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG - In the End - Undertaker's Songbook - 2021

SCOTT COOK - Tangle of Souls - Tangle of Souls - 2020

ANI DiFRANCO - Simultaneously - Revolutionary Love - 2021

Playlist for 5/12/21

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

Palestine:

DAVID ROVICS - After Friday Prayers - Single - 2021

PAT LAMANNA - David and Goliath - Something Beautiful - 2013 

THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Apartheid -  Three Little Birds - 2012 

DAVE LIPPMAN - Gaza's Ark -  Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015

PINK FLOYD - We Shall Overcome (Song for Gaza) - Single - 2010

PAUL KAPLAN Interview:

PAUL KAPLAN - Little Boxes - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - Life on This Planet - We Shall Stay Here – 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - We Shall Stay Here - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - Let's Make A Toast - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

PAUL KAPLAN - Survival - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

COVID-19:

CROWE'S PASTURE - Quarantine - Single - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Front Line - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

CRYS MATTHEWS & HEATHER MAE - Six Feet Apart - Single - 2020

MARSH FAMILY - Have the New Jab (Marsh Family/Leonard Cohen) - Single 2021

The Creative Process:

SI KAHN – We Don't Need No Moose - Live at Echo Lake Concerts – 2010

War/Afghanistan:

BOB DYLAN - Masters of War - Bob Dylan (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9) – 2010 Sony Music

DAVID ROVICS - Meanwhile in Afghanistan -  Meanwhile in Afghanistan – 2013

JIM PAGE - Her Eyes - Collateral Damage - 2002

JON BROOKS - Tajik Boy - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007

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

Songs for the Spirit:

THE MALVINAS - How Can I Keep from Singing - God Bless the Grass - 2017

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Stand for Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Well May the World Go/Letter from Pete's Banjo (Pete Seeger/Cathy Fink) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

Playlist for 5/5/21

 YO-YO MA and THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE - Green (Vincent's Tune)(Wu Man) - Sing Me Home - 2016 Sony Music

Kent State Massacre Anniversary:

MAGPIE - Kent - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records

GORDON THOMAS WARD - Four Angels - Eiderdown - 2020

RACHEL SAGE - Ohio (Neil Young) - Character - 2020

Democracy:

AARON NATHANS & MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - My Flag Too  -  Single - 2021

FRED GILLEN, JR. - We the People - Wage Love - 2015 Dys Records

EMMA'S REVOLUTION w/ Cathy Fink - On A Day in January - Single - 2021

HEALY & JURAVICH -  Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

LEONARD COHEN - Democracy - The Future - 1992 Sony Music

Black Lives Matter:

LILLI LEWIS - My American Heart - My American Heart Red + Blue - 2021

LEN SELIGMAN - Our Turn Now - Our Turn Now - 2020

AUDREY & ORWELL - Rapture - Stairwells - 2011

DAVID ROVICS - Elijah Played the Violin - Say Their Names – 2020

CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021

Poverty:

GORDONVILLE, U.S.A. - Ceiling Is the Floor - Single - 2021

KAIA KATER - Paradise Fell - Nine Pin - 2016

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

MARIA DUNN - Bedrock, Bedroll- Gathering - 2016

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - If the Poor Don't Matter  (Tom Paxton) - Shout and Shine - 2018

Environment:

DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER - Gentle Arms of Eden - Drum Hat Buddha - 2001

COLLEEN KATTAU - The Creator Always Wins - Single - 2021

ZOE SPEAKS - The Earth Has Had Enough  - Wings - 2018

BUDDY MONDLOCK - A Canary's Song (Garth Brooks/Buddy Mondlock) - The Memory Wall - 2013

TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010

Palestine:

JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002

DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

Peace:

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

Playlist for 4/28/21

What's Wrong in America:

TIM GRIMM - Gone - The Single - 2020

ROBINSON & ROHE - Hunger - Hunger - 2017

SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020

RAYE ZARAGOZA - American Dream - Fight for You - 2017

American Values:

Jesse Palidofsky - America The Beautiful - Single - 2020

SI KAHN - When the Land and They Were Young - Thanksgiving - 2007 Strictly Country Records

WES WEDDELL - These Truths - Somewhere in the Middle - 2019 Dusty Shadows Music

BIRDS OF CHICAGO - American Flowers - American Flowers – 2017

Immigration:

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman – 2006

BOB SIMA - Longer Table - Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds - 2020

DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President - 2014

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013

Resist:

BOB SIMA - The Song Gets a Little Bit Louder - Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds - 2020

TOM MORELLO - Until the End - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

KIM MOBERG - Resist - Above Ground - 2017

SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008

DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Waiting for the Fall - 2009

Black Lives Matter:

THE AVETT BROTHERS - I Should've Spent the Day with My Family - The Gleam III - 2020

WAR & PIERCE - Amen - Single - 2020

DANNY SCHMIDT - Black & Blue - Single – 2020

THE MAMMALS - Someone's Hurting - Nonet - 2020 Humble Abode Music

SHEMEKIA COPELAND - Uncivil War - Single - 2020

Songs for the Spirit:

BARRY ORECK – A Simple Song - We Fit Together – 2020

JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

SCOTT COOK - New Grist - One More Time Around - 2013

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo - 2017

Playlist for 4/21/21

Black Lives Matter: 

DAVID ROVICS - His Hands Were in the Air - When I'm Elected President - 2014

THE FOX RUN FIVE - $20 Bill (for George Floyd) (Tom Prasada Rao) - Single - 2020

PATTY GRIFFIN - The Wheel - Patty Griffin - 2019

RON ISRAEL - The Great Reckoning  - These Times - 2021

REGGIE HARRIS - Standing in Freedoms Name - On Solid Ground - 2021

 April 1846 US invaded Mexico:

DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010

THE CHIEFTAINS with RY COODER - The Sands of Mexico - San Patricio - 2010

JIM SHARKEY - A Man without A Country - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015

THE FENIANS - The San Patricios - Band of Rogues - 1999

TIM O'BRIEN -  John Riley (Tim O’Brien, Guy Clark) - The Crossing - 2020

Viet Nam antiwar movement:

DAVID ROVICS - They Couldn't Stand By - 1939 - 2016

TOM PAXTON - Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs) - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born in the USA - Born in the USA - 1984

COUNTRY JOE MacDONALD - Fixin' to Die Rag - Live at Woodstock - 1969

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The War - Honest - 2019

Gun Control:

FRICTION FARM - I Am A Mother - Evidence of Hope - 2021

KATHY MOSER - Someone Like You - Someone Like You - 2007

LOU DOMINGUEZ - Gun Country - We the People - 2013

RED TAIL WING - Gibson Town - Fall Away Blues - 2016

CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me -1997

What's wrong/Responsibility:

RON ISRAEL - American Tragedy - These Times - 2021

REGGIE HARRIS - It's Who We Are - On Solid Ground - 2021

ROB McHALE - Prophets on the Boulevard - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018

FRICTION FARM - Work - Evidence of Hope - 2021

MEGHAN CARY - Responsibility - Sing Louder - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:

SI KAHN - Going Up the Mountain - Courage - 2010 Double Time Music

RON ISRAEL -  Hope - These Times - 2021

Playlist for 4/14/21

 CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016

THE BARBALOOTS - Captain Key - Possum Came to Town - 2020

Nuclear weapons:

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Hercules and Einstein - Sorry State – 2020

SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

HILLEL ARNOLD - Dance Around My Atom Fire (Woody Guthrie) - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet+

TERRI ROBEN - We Can Risk Disarmament - The Path We Make – 2008

MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Failed state of USA:

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Sorry State - Sorry State - 2020

IAN ROBB - They're Taking It Away - From Different Angels - 1994

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Real America - Real American - 2010

BRUCE T. CARROLL - Fox in the Henhouse - Finding You - 2018

Racism/Inclusion:

THE BARBALOOTS - Possum Came to Town - Possum Came to Town - 2020

DENNIS WARNER - Carefully Taught - Pilot Me - 2020

COSY SHERIDAN & CHARLIE KOCH - My Fence & My Neighbor - My Fence & My Neighbor - 2018

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Welcome Table - Shout and Shine - 2018

MARA LEVINE - A Perfect Rose (Terry Kitchen) - Facets of Folk – 2019

Environment/Forests:

THE BARBALOOTS - Sawdust John - Possum Came to Town - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018

TIM GRIMM - Thirteen Years - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

JIM PAGE - Butterfly Wings - Gettin Squeezed – 1999

DENNIS WARNER - Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot) - Pilot Me - 2020

LGBTQ:

DENNIS WARNER - Michael - Pilot Me – 2020

COLLEEN KATTAU - Winter Came Early - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio

DAVID ROVICS - I Know A Man - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes - 2008

LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs

Joy:

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Song of Joy (Ken Whiteley) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

SARA THOMSEN – May the Longtime Sun - By Breath - 2003

Playlist for 3/31/21

 PETE SEEGER - Maple Syrup Time - Seeds: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

THE BOXCAR LILIES - Sugar Shack - Sugar Shack - 2013

Women's History Month:

JIM SHARKEY - Mother Jones - A Lovely Day - 2019

BILLY CROCKETT - Mavis - Rabbit Hole – 2016

SHARON ABREU -  Wangari - A New Bottom Line - 2014

ANNE FEENEY - Amelia Earhart's Last Ride - If I Can't Dance - 2006

WOOL&GRANT - JANIS (Ina May Wool) - Wool&Grant – 2013

Justice:

TIA McGRAFF - What If - Single - 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sharecropper's Son - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Someday (We Shall Overcome) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

JUD CASWELL - That's the Way We Climb - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019

JOEL RAFAEL - Under Our Skin (Joel Rafael/Jason Mraz) - Rose Avenue - 2019 Inside Recordings

Banksters:

AOIFE SCOTT – Ireland's Hour of Need - Homebird - 2020

JACKSON BROWNE - Which Side? - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

SKINNER & T'WITCH - Off-Shore - Everybody's Grotty - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON – Dearest Martha – Gonna Rise Again – 1987 Rounder Records

DAVID FRANCEY - The Money Boys - Empty Train - 2016

Immigration:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Strangers in This Land - Single - 2021

HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road- Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

KYLE CAREY - Wind Through Casper - North Star - 2014

BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth - 2013

Hard Times/Hope:

ELIOT BRONSON - Even This Is Going to Pass - Single 2020

BYRD & STREET - A Man with A Cardboard Sign - This Much Is True - 2017

MICHAEL FRANTI - Hey World (Don't Give Up) - All Rebel Rockers - 2008

DANIELLE MIRAGLIA - Glimmer of Gold - Box of Troubles - 2011

DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart  - 1998

Songs for the Spirit:

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - I'm Happy Every Day I Live (Rose Maddox/Alta Troxel) - Shout and Shine - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Well May the World Go (Pete Seeger) - To Everyone in All the World/A Celebration of Pete Seeger - 2019 Appalseed Prods.

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - All Around the World (Kevin R Moore/Chic Street Man) - TajMo - 2017

Playlist for 3/24/21

 CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Redwinged Blackbird (David Francey) - Get Up and Do Right – 2017

Massacres:

DAVID ROVICS - Puritan Slaughter - Single - 2021

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER - June 4, 1989 - The Age of Miracles - 2010

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - If I Am Being Honest - Honest - 2019

KATHY MOSER - Someone Like You - Someone Like You - 2007

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgive Us - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

For Julain Assange:

DAVID ROVICS - Behind These Prison Walls - Rebel Songs (Free the Imagination) - 2021

RYAN HARVEY -  To Keep You Silent - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

RACHAEL KILGOUR - Whistleblower - Whistleblower's Manifesto: Songs for a New Revolution - 2013

PETE KRONOWITT - Change Is Gonna Come - A Lone Voice - 2016

ROGER WATERS - Wish You Were Here - Live at Globo studios, Brazil - 2018

Labor disasters:

BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Ruth Rubin) - We Were There! - 2002

TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Widow of the Mountain - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records

BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Blantyre Explosion - Beg & Borrow - 2015

PETE SEEGER - The Bells of Rhymney  (Idris Davies/PeteSeeger) - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Unions:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Young Ones Don't Remember - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder

JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005

SI KAHN/SUE MASSEK - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister (Jim Garland) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records

SHELBY BOTTOM DUO & Friends - I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night (Alfred Hayes/Earl Robinson) - Joe Hill Roadshow - 2016

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel)  - Union Maid - 2003

Violence against women:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

HEATHER PIERSON - I'll Never Know Freedom Again - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings

ELAINE ROMANELLI - Real - The Hour Before - 2015

FACES OF EVE/Celeste & Rebecca - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008

LOUISE MOSRIE - Lay It Down - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music

Enjoy:

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

REBECCA FOLSOM - Sanctuary - Sanctuary - 2020

Playlist for 3/17/21

Spring: 

PADDY MILLS - When Spring Comes Around - 3 Lefts - 2011 Ormalnye Records

JOHN GORKA - Thirstier World - Bright Side of Down - 2014 Red House Records

Happy St. Patrick's Day:

ANNE FEENEY - Irish Jokes - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records

MARY COURTNEY - Crasna na oConnca (Crossing the Waves) - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003

SI KAHN - Ireland of My Dreams - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

SOLAS - Padraig Og  Mo Chroi - All These Years - 2016 THL Records

BATTLEFIELD BAND with Leo McCann – Reels: The Five Mil e Chase/The Cameronian Reel/The Black Haired Lass/Miss Girdie - Beg & Borrow – 2015

Scotland Resistance/Empire:

BOB WRIGHT - Mists of the Morn - Gingerbread Whiskerchin - 2020

BATTLEFIELD BAND - An Gille Mear (The Gallant Lad) - Beg & Borrow – 2015

ALISTAIR HULETT and JIMMY GREGORY - Among Proddy Dogs & Papes - Dance of the Underclass - 1991

ALAN REID - Covenanter - Under the Blue - 2002 Red Sands Records

HUGH MORRISON - Scotland Is Free - Scotland Is Free - 2014

Environmental destruction:

JOHN PRINE - Paradise - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

PATRICK SYLVEST -Those Lands - Sylvestrings - 2007

SI KAHN - Winter coming On - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

LORETTA HAGEN - This World of Ours - Lucky Stars - 2017

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

Labor/Job loss:

PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay  - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music

TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS - That Old Machine - Grain by Grain - 2016

JUD CASWELL - Watch the Fall - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019

DAN SCHATZ- Eighty Acre Farm (Doug Becken) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records

Aging:

THE BLACK FEATHERS - Winter Moves In - Soaked to the Bone - 2016

AMERICAN OUTLAWS - Desperados Waiting for a Train (Guy Clark) - Nassau Coliseum concert – 1990

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The Things He Saw - Before I Go - 2017

TIM GRIMM - She Remembers - Farm Songs - 2009

JOHN PRINE - Angel from Montgomery  - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

Enjoy:

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Mister Rabbit - Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes -  2017

JOE JENCKS with Reggie Harris - Best of Friends - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers – 2017

Playlist for 3/3/21

 COVID-19:

MARSH FAMILY - Have the New Jab (Marsh Family/Leonard Cohen) - Single 2021

MARSH FAMILY - I Know Them Too Well (Marsh Family/Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Björn Ulvaeus) - Single 2020

PAUL KAPLAN - These Are the Days - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

Women's History Month/Heroines:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Star Girls - We Are Welcomed - 2016

JOHN FLYNN - Malala - Poor Man's Diamonds - 2014

SARA THOMSEN - The Ballad of Molly Ivins - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Prudence Crandall - We Are Welcomed - 2016

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

Racism:

CHRIS PIERCE -The Bridge of John - American Silence – 2021

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016

PAUL KAPLAN - Survival - We Shall Stay Here – 2021

GRANT PEEPLES - Pitchforks and Torches - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018

CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021

Politics:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Willful Ignorance - We Are Welcomed - 2016

JANET BATES - Not in Kansas Anymore - The Little Spinner – 2009

CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010

TRET FURE - Monuments - Stone by Stone – 2020

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Immigration:

TRET FURE - Welcome to America - Stone by Stone - 2020

MARIA DUNN - Lullaby - Piece By Piece - 2012

BEN BEDFORD -  The Voyage of John and Emma - The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006

DAVID ROTH - Home of the Brave (David Roth/Karen Drucker/JD Martin) - Last Day on This Earth - 2017 May the Light Music

Aging:

MIKE WARD - Content - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - When This Old Hat Was New (Dana Robinson/Hank Mattson) - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music

Enjoy:

MARSH FAMILY - We're Not Singing Sea Shanties - Single 2021

Playlist for 2/24/21

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with Justin Hiltner - Hold Each Other Up - Single 2020

Unions for Amazon workers:

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel)  - Union Maid - 2003

TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union (Billy Bragg) - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

ANNIE PATTERSON & CHARLIE KING - Step By Step ( Pete Seeger/Waldemar Hille) - Step By Step - 2019 Vaguely Reminiscent Soungs

JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005

JOHN McCUTCHEON -Talking Union (Pete Seeger) - To Everyone in All the World/A Celebration of Pete Seeger - 2019 Appalseed Prods.

Whistle blowers for Julian Assange:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for Chelsea Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011

DAVID NEAL - Bradley Manning - 2012 dissenter.firedoglake.com

RYAN HARVEY -  To Keep You Silent - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

SCOTT COOK - Walk That Lonesome Valley - Further Down the Line - 2017

DAVID ROVICS - Who Will Tell the People - Living in these Times - 2001

Homelessness:

MIKE WARD - No Way to Live - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

THE BIG CHEESE - Tired of Breaking My Back - Ramble in the Dairy Aisles: It's All Gouda - 2009

3 PENNY ACRE - Rag and Bone -Rag and Bone - 2013

LEONARD COHEN - Never Gave Nobody Trouble - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music

PETER KEANE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) - Rural Electification - 2015

Walls:

TRET FURE – Monuments - Stone By Stone – 2020

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Shadow of the Wall  - Revolution Now - 2017

SHARON GOLDMAN - Sunset at the Border - Every Trip Around the Sun - 2019

TRACY SPRING - Walls Come Tumblin Down - More Than Our Share – 2001

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Tear Down the Fences - Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Depression/Hope:

MIKE WARD - In the Light - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

THE RESONANT ROGUES - Autumn of the World - Autumn of the World - 2019

LINQ - Tired - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music

ERIN THOMAS - No Position to Give - You Don't Know Me - 2012

Songs for the Spirit:

MILLPOND MOON - Forever Young (Bob Dylan) - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015

TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1 - 2012

TRACY SPRING - Love Is A Round - Life and Art - 1995

Playlist for 2/17/21

 REGGIE HARRIS - It's Who We Are - On Solid Ground – 2021

Black History Month - Racism 1960's:

ROD ABERNETHY - Oxford Town (Bob Dylan) - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - 2021

NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 -  2000 Smithsonian Folkways

CHARLIE KING - Three Faces in a Row - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

MAGPIE - Cry Carolina - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change

Civil Right's movement 1960's:

Phil Ochs - Freedom Riders - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change

BARBARA DANE - It Isn't Nice (Dane/Reynolds) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

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

JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Conscience:

ROD ABERNETHY - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - 2021

SAM GLEAVES - The Golden Rule - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

HEATHER PIERSON - Righteous Song - Singin' - 2017

ROBERT JONES & MATT WATROBA - Sowin' On The Mountain - Common Chords - 2019

ALICIA VIANI - Good Man - Alicia Viani - 2019

COVID-19:

DAVID ROTH - When the Universe Is Ready - Single - 2020

DAVID ROVICS - Precipice - Notes Fom A Failed State - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sheltered in Place - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

CROWE'S PASTURE - Quarantine - Single - 2020

TIM GRIMM - Gone - The Single - 2020

Women & Labor:

BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002

CURTIS & LORETTA - Willmar 8 (We Are All Equal You Know) - When There's Good to Be Done - 2015

VIVIAN NESBITT & JOHN DILLON - Jail Can't Hold My Body Down - The Songs of Mother Jones in Heaven, A Musical by Si Kahn (Si Kahn) -- 2019 Joe Hill Music  LLC

MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Rebel Girl (Joe Hill) - When We Stand Together - 2017

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel)  - Union Maid - 2003

Rise Up:

LINDA SUSSMAN - Join Hands - These Walls - 2021

ERIKA KULNYS - Rise Up - Rise Up- 2016

FRED ARCOLEO - We Are the Ones - Today Again - 2019

Playlist for 2/10/21

RIP, Anne Feeney:

 ANNE FEENEY - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

ANNE FEENEY - National Health Care Now! (Anne Feeney/Rory McLeod, Brian Cutean) - Union Maid - 2003

Impeach him:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - So Impeachable (Emma's Revolution - Irving Gordon) - Single - 2019

PAUL KAPLAN - Impeachment Song - Single - 2019

JIM PAGE - Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out - Single - 2020

Black History Month - Atrocities:

3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013

BARBARA DANE - Only A Pawn in their Game (Bob Dylan) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

BOB DYLAN - The Death of Emmett Till - The Whitmark Demos: 1962-1964 - 2010 Sony

BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) - Single Bullet Theory - 2003  WIRL Records

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest – 2019

Responsibility – Change:

TIA McGRAFF - What If - Single  - 2021

SIOBHAN QUINN & MICHAEL BOWERS - On the Turning Away - Dreamers, Lovers and Outlaws - 2007 Roundhouse Music

REGGIE HARRIS - Ready to Go - Ready to Go - 2018 Reggie Harris Music

MEGHAN CARY - Responsibility - Sing Louder - 2017

DENNIS WARNER - Potter's Wheel - Pilot Me - 2020

Rebellions -  Justice:

DAVID ROVICS - Berkshire Hills - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

SOLAS - Padraig Og  Mo Chroi - All These Years - 2016 THL Records

HUGH MORRISON - Among the Proddy Dogs & Papes - Scotland Is Free – 2014

MARIA DUNN - We Were Good People - We Were Good People - 2004

ERIC ANDERSEN - The Rebel (Song of Revolt) - Shadow and Light of Albert Camus - 2015

Unemployment:

MARIA DUNN - How Do You Do, 1935? - We Were Good People - 2004

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Tramp (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs

TRET FURE - Unemployment Blues - Roses in Novermber - 2018

BYRD & STREET - A Man with A Cardboard Sign - This Much Is True - 2017

JEAN ROHE - No Work - The End of the World Show - 2013

Happy Valentine's Day

HEALY & JURAVICH - Great Chazy River - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006

Playlist for 2/3/21

 Change:

MARA LEVINE - River (Bill Staines) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

THE MASTERSONS - No Time for Love Songs -  No Time for Love Songs- 2021

LUKE CONCANNON - It Won't Wait - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Rise - The Twangtown Paramours - 2010 Inside Edge Records

SAM COOKE - A Change Is Gonna Come - 1963

Black History Month/Slavery:

WINDBORNE- Stole and Sold - Song on the Times - 2017

ALLISON RUSSELL/RHIANNON GIDDENS/LEYLA McCALLA - Quasheba, Quasheba - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

RHIANNON GIDDENS/AMHTHYST KIA/ALLISON RUSSELL/LEYLA McCALLA  - Slave Driver - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

LEYLA McCALLA/RHIANNON GIDDENS/ALLISON RUSSELL – Blood and Bones - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board! - 2007 Appleseed Recordings

Environment:

LORETTA HAGEN - This World of Ours - Lucky Stars – 2017

SI KAHN - Winter coming On - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Rising Tide - Parts & Labor - 2014

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Bloomin' Rose - Echo in the Valley - 2017

ERIC ANDERSEN - Darkness - Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron - 2017

Homeless:

LUKE CONCANNON - Feel You in My Arms - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

DAVID ROVICS - A Dream Foreclosed - Everything Can Change - 2013

JOEL RAPHAEL - Meanwhile the Rain - America Come Home -2012 Inside Recordings

PAUL SIMON - Homeless - Graceland - 1986/2012

Liberation/Revolution:

LUKE CONCANNON - Join the Liberation - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Levantese Companero (Angel Parra) - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Remeniscent Sounds

JANET BATES - Calling for You - Another Child - 2006

CHRISTY MOORE - The Companeros (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records

SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008

Dreams:

ALICIA VIANI - Tomtom Farm - Alicia Viani - 2019

COLVIN & EARLE - Ruby Tuesday (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - 2016

Playlist for 1/27/21

 CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Song of Joy (Ken Whiteley) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

MLK Day:

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

JANET BATES - Martin - For All of His Wealth - 2007

GEOFF BARTLEY - Litany for January 15 (Chip Quinn) - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012

LARA HERSCOVITCH - Let Us Begin - Four Wise Monkeys - 2012

Countering Fascism:

CHUCK BRODSKY - Them and Us - Them and Us - 2018

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Stand for Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

PAUL KAPLAN - Stand Our Ground for Justice - Single - 2014

JOHN SHELDON - The Same Water - Single - 2016

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

 BLM – speak out:

ERIN IVEY - Charleston- Solace in the Wild - 2021

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Someday (We Shall Overcome) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

MARCUS WILKERSON - That Day - That Day - 2020

JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

CHRIS PIERCE - American Silence - American Silence - 2021

Empire:

CHRISTY MOORE - Natives (Paul Doran) - Christy Live at the Point - 1994

THE STRAY BIRDS - Hands of Man - Magic Fire - 2016

CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - I Saw the Sea - Incantations - 2017

JOE JENCKS - You Don't Have the Right - I Hear Your Voice - 2003

JIM PAGE - Who Are They and Why Do They Hate Us - Collateral Damage - 2002

Prisons/Empire:

DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010

JOHN ROBERTS & DEBRA COWAN - Anderson's Coast - Ballads Long and Short - 2015 Golden Hind Music

CHRISTY MOORE - Back Home in Derry (Bobby Sands)- The Spirit of Freedom - 1986

HARLEY STRING BAND  -  Guantanamo - Didn't Come to Stay Long  -  2007

SI KAHN - Hutto - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

For the spirit:

KRISTEN GRAVES - Folk Army - Now Ain't the Time for Tears - 2014

DAVID ROVICS - Behind the Barricades - Waiting for the Fall - 2009

Playlist for 1/13/21

 INDIGO GIRLS - Look Long - Look Long - 2020

Fascism:

ERIC ANDERSEN - Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam - Memory of the Future - 1999

CHARLIE KING - Kristallnacht Is Coming (Bob Franke) - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

PAT WICTOR – Knock on the Door (Phil Ochs) – This Is Absolutely Real: Visions & Versions of Phil Ochs – 2017

SI KAHN and The Looping Brothers - Government on Horseback - It's A Dog's Life - 2019

LEONARD COHEN - The Future - The Future - 1992 Sony Music

Holocaust:

THE TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Stars Without A Heaven - Single - 2021

MICHAEL VEITCH - Voices of the Old Days - Wake up Call - 2017

JOE JENCKS - Children of Trochenbrod - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

TIM GRIMM - Anne in Amsterdam - The Turning Point - 2013

CHUCK BRODSKY - Gerta - Subtotal Eclipse - 2011

More victims of Fascism:

DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

HOLLY NEAR- Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida - And Still We Sing: The Outspoken Collection - 2002 Calico Tracks Music

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Las Damas de Blanco - Passage - 2010 Appalseed Prods.

DAVID ROVICS - Today in Charlottesville - Single – 2018

PAMELA MEANS - Amen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003

Heros for Justice:

CHUCK BRODSKY - The Forger - Them and Us - 2018

FRED SMALL - Denmark, 1943 - I Will Stand Fast - 1988 New Rounder

ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara - Amigo - 2008

SHARON ABREU -  Wangari - A New Bottom Line - 2014

JOHN FLYNN - Malala - Poor Man's Diamonds - 2014

Plague:

ERIC ANDERSEN - The Plague (Song of Denial) - Shadow and Light of Albert Camus - 2015 Meyer Records

DAVID ROVICS - Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree - 2020 Single

Playlist for 12/30/20

 INDIGO GIRLS - Look Long - Look Long - 2020

Happy New Year:

CATHY FINK/MARCY MARXER/TOM PAXTON - On the Last Day of the Year - Happy Holidays, Vol. 12 - 2017 Hudson Harding Music

PAT HUMPHRIES - Another New Year - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

KATE TAYLOR - Auld Lang Syne - Happy Holidays! Vol. 10 - 2015 - Hudson Harding Music

COVID-19:

TIM GRIMM - Gone - The Single - 2020

CROWE'S PASTURE - Quarantine - Single - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sheltered in Place - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine – 2020

CRYS MATTHEWS & HEATHER MAE - Six Feet Apart - Single - 2020

Trump:

Up & Down Theatre - Make America Great Again - Single - 2016

HOLLY NEAR - Coup d'Etat - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music

DON CARON & LINDA GOWER - Confounds the Science (Caron/Gower/McCartney) - Single - 2018 The Parody Project

FOUNDERS SING with DON McLEAN - The Day Democracy Died - Single – 2020

Refugees:

DAVID ROVICS - Upon Our Shores - Single - 2015

THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt - 2017

BETT PADGETT - Don't Take My Child from Me - Single - 2018

DAVID ROTH - Home of the Brave (David Roth/Karen Drucker/JD Martin) - Last Day on This Earth - 2017 May the Light Music

Black Lives Matter:

DAVID ROVICS - Say Their Names - Say Their Names -2020

PATTY GRIFFIN - The Wheel - Patty Griffin - 2019

THE MAMMALS - Someone's Hurting - Nonet - 2020 Humble Abode Music

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016

Climate Change:

STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - California - Windows - 2019 Icebird Records

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - When I Was Your Age - Parts & Labor - 2014

JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal - 2017

War:

SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

TIM GRIMM - My Turn - The Back Fields - 2005

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music