Playlist for 2/15/23 & 2/22/23

 CLAUDIA SCHMIDT - Chickadee Blues - Hark the Dark - 2017

Black History Month:

BEN BEDFORD - Blood on Missouri - The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016

ERIC KILBURN - Long Road - Reckonings – 2022

TOM PRASADA-RAO - $20 Bill (for George Floyd) - Single - 2020

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

KIRK MANN - Say Their Names - Say Theri Names - 2020

America - What's Wrong:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT - America Can You Hear Me/Star Spangled Banner/I Have A Dream - Concinnity - 2018

DON CARON - This Land Is Your Land - Single -2018 The Parody Project

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

PETER MULVEY & SistaStrings - Old Men Drinking Seagram's (John Statz/Pete Mulvey) - Love Is the Only Thing - 2022

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

Politics:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT - Letter to Our Leader - Concinnity - 2018

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

JOHN COSTER - Prophets and Dreams - Lost Horizon - 2013

RON ISRAEL - What's on the Ballot - These Times - 2021

DAVE LIPPMAN - Ciao, Inequality - You Don't Own the World – 2016

PAMELA MEANS – Live in the studio

Sing for Love

Time to Tear It All Down

James Madison

Color of His Skin

Horrors of War:

GRANT PEEPLES - Brothers in Arms - A Murder of Songs - 2023

DAVID ROVICS  - The Pogroms of 1969 - Notes Fom A Failed State - 2020

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Troubles - Leap - 2022

SAM GLEAVES - Angel in the Ashes - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

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

Change:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT - Everything Must Change - Concinnity - 2018

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

Playlist for 2/8/23

SARA THOMSEN - Darkness Cover Me - Winter Wanderings – 2012

White Privilege:

ERIC KILBURN - Lucky - Reckonings - 2022

JOHN GORKA - Ignorance & Privilege - So Dark You See - 2009

THE MAMMALS - Someone's Hurting - Nonet - 2020

SARA HICKMAN - The Good Man - Single - Hudson Harding Folk Now - Sept. - 2022

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

Slaverey/John Brown:

ERIC KILBURN - The Wheel Meets the Road - Reckonings – 2022

ROB McHALE - Deep in the River - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018

DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

PESKY J. NIXON - John Brown - Red Ducks - 2012

MAGPIE - The Testimony of Frederick Douglas - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit – 2000

Racism in Sports:

ERIC KILBURN - The Choice - Reckonings - 2022

PAUL KAPLAN - Welcome Home - We Shall Stay Here – 2021

CHUCK BRODSKY - The Handshake - Tell Tale Heart - 2015

TERRY KITCHEN - The Greatest Game They Never Played - That's How It Used to Be - 2004

ELLEN BUKSTEL - By My Silence (Ellen Bukstel/Nick Annis) - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Palestine/Israeli Genocide:

JOEL ZOSS - Oh, Jerusalem - Lila - 2016

DAVE LIPPMAN - Ciao Annexation - Single - 2020

DAVID ROVICS - After Friday Prayers - Single - 2021

DAVID ROVICS - Watch the Buildings Crumble - May Day - 2021

JON BROOKS - Son of Hamas - Delicate Cages - 2011

Poverty:

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

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

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion Dollars? - Real American - 2010

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

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

Unity:

HAPPY TRAUM - Sailing Down My Golden River (Pete Seeger)- Just for the Love of It - 2015 

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

DAN SCHATZ - Hands Across the Waters - The Song and the Sigh - 2010

SARA THOMSEN - Contemplation Chant - Winter Wanderings - 2012

Playlist for 2/1/23

 JACK HARDY - Winter Sunlight - Noir - 2007

Black History Month:

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Too Many Martyrs (Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson) - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997

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

MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998

Phil Ochs - In the heat of the summer - I Ain't Marching Anymore - 1965

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

Racism/Police Brutality:

PAMELA MEANS - Two Halves - Single Bullet Theory - 2003

PAMELA MEANS - Color of The Skin - Live at Northfire - 2020

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

THE EBONY HILLBILLIES - Another Man Done Gone/Hands Up Don't Shoot - 5 Miles fromTown - 2020

PAUL SACHS - The Witness -  Love Is Love - 2016

War:

ARTISTS FOR ACTION - Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece) - Single - 2022

TAIVI - Ukraiyna - Single - 2023

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Troubles - Leap - 2022

JOE JENCKS - The Minstrel Boy (Thomas Moore/Joe Jencks) - The Coming of the Years - 2022

BOBBY DARIN - Simple Song of Freedom - Live From The Troubadour -1969

Famine (for Afhanis):

JOE JENCKS - When the Moon Rises Over Skibbereen - The Coming of the Years - 2022

DAVID ROTH – Trail of Tears (David Roth/Freebo) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018

PARTINGTON & SWEENEY - Deer Island - Commonplaces - 2020

TIM GRIMM - The Hungry Grass - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

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

Refugees:

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Over the Divide - Echo in the Valley - 2017

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

MURRAY McLAUCHLAN - Lying By the Sea- Hourglass – 2021

FRICTION FARM - Narrow Passage - So Many Stars - 2017

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

Songs for the Spirit:

ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN - Love Hope Trust - Love Hope Trust - 2022

PETER, PAUL and MARY - Give Yourself to Love - Discovered/Live in Concert - 2014

RHIANNON GIDDENS – Music and Joy  - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 

Playlist for 1/18/23

 MARA LEVINE - Raise the Dead of Wintertime (Allan Rankin) - Mara's Gems - 2008

Martin Luther King Birthday:

BROTHER SUN - In the Name of Love - Some Part of the Truth - 2013

FRICTION FARM - Birmingham - Every Mile Is a Memory - 2010

ERIC BALKEY - Atticus Taught Me - 2012

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

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

Health Care:

CHARLIE KING - Imagine Healthcare - So Far…So Good - 2013

LINQ - What Happened to the Care - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Dear Number 10369924053887 - Thanks for the Support - 2008

SILAS LOWE - Poor People's Doctor - Wandering Father Forgotten Son - 2016

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

Abortion:

ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017

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

JEAN ROHE - Animal - Single - 2022

SOFIA TALVIK - Too Many Churches - Single - Hudson Harding Folk Now - Sept. - 2022

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

Veterans:

GEOFF BARTLEY - The Ballad of Billy Bridger - The Ballad of Billy Bridger - 2022

GORDONVILLE, U.S.A. - Julio Was Lucky - Us in the US - 2021

RICK BURKHARDT -  Walter Reed - For the Record - 2020

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The War - Honest - 2019

DAVID ROVICS - East Tennessee - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

America:

THE ACCIDENTALS - Night Train (Sav Buist/Katie Larson/Dar Williams) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

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

PETER MULVEY & SistaStrings - Pray for Rain - Love Is the Only Thing - 2022

JULIA GOLD - America - Sixty - 2016

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

Concert at Mt. Toby Frineds 1/21/23:

JIM SHARKEY - My Home in Roscommon - A Lovely Day - 2019

JIM SHARKEY - The Plight of the Yazidis - Sweet Anne's Road - 2017

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

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

Playlist for 1/11/23

 TIM GRIMM - Heart of the Winter - Farm Songs - 2009

Labor/Strikes:

BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones on the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009 

SUE MASSEK - Down On the Picket Line (Sarah Ogan Gunning) - Precious Memories - 2015

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

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Casey Jones (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 

BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming - Single - 2003

Immigration:

STEVE DEASY - People Once Were Welcome Here - People Once Were Welcome Here - 2010

RON ISRAEL - Let All the Immigrants In - Homeless in America - 2017

JOE TROOP - Mercy for Migrants - Borrowed Time - 2021

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

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- I Have Known Women (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- Aliens (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020

Clmate Change:

JIM PAGE - Down to Zero - The Time Is Now - 2022

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

GUY FORSYTH & JESKA BAILEY - Concrete - Conspirators - 2019

DAVID ROVICS - Text Messages of the Apocalypse - Single 2017

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013

Politics:

ZOE SPEAKS - There's A Hole Where Your Soul's Supposed to Be  - Wings - 2018

SI KAHN - Talking Politicians - New Wood - 1994

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

NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

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

Hard Times:

DURHAM COUNTY POETS - Mama - Today's Menu - 2014

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

HAPPY TRAUM - I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie) - Just for the Love of It - 2015

THE BURNS SISTERS - Workhouse - Looking Back - 2015 

HEATHER PIERSON - The Hard Work of Living - The Hard Work of Living - 2013

Hope/Love/Joy:

HAPPY TRAUM - Things Are Coming My Way - Just for the Love of It - 2015

RACHEL SAGE - Catch the Light - Character - 2020

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

RHIANNON GIDDENS – Music and Joy  - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019

Playlist for 1/4/23

 PAT HUMPHRIES - Another New Year - Hands – 2001

January 6 Insurrection:

PETER MULVEY & SistaStrings - On the Eve of the Inaugural - Love Is the Only Thing - 2022

ABBIE GARDNER – Three Quarter Time – Dobro Singer - 2022

CROWE'S PASTURE with Robin Batteau - Take Back the Red White and Blue - Single – 2022

EMMA'S REVOLUTION w/ Cathy Fink - On A Day in January - Rooted – 2022

TRET FURE - Louder Than the Guns - Single - 2021

DON CARON - Fifty Ways to Leave the White House - Single - 2020 The Parody Project

Politics:

ROB SIEGEL- America Is Bleeding - Hold Our Ground - 2022

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Drain the Swamp - Rize Up - 2018

HOUSE OF HAMMIL - Snake Oil - March Though Storms - 2018

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

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

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

Palestine:

DAVID ROVICS - Watch the Buildings Crumble - May Day - 2021

JON BROOKS - Son of Hamas - Delicate Cages - 2011

JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002

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

MASAKHABIBI - Palestine Song  فلسطين أغنية  - Single - 2010 

Coal Mining:

TERRY KITCHEN - Mr. Grinder's Coal - That's How It Used to Be - 2004

CARRIE & MICHAEL KLINE - The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Damp As the Dew (A Tribute to Appalachian Miners) - 2009

CARRIE & MICHAEL KLINE - Clay County Miner - Damp As the Dew (A Tribute to Appalachian Miners) - 2009

CARRIE & MICHAEL KLINE - The Buffalo Creek Disaster - Damp As the Dew (A Tribute to Appalachian Miners) - 2009

JIM SHARKEY - Mother Jones - A Lovely Day - 2019

Immigration/Irish:

JIM SHARKEY - Adieu to Belashanny (Words: William Allingham) - Sweet Anne's Road – 2015

JIM SHARKEY - The Old Piano - A Lovely Day - 2019

TIM GRIMM - The Hungry Grass - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

THE BURNS SISTERS - Clare to Here - Looking Back - 2015

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

Peace:

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

SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage -  2010 

Playlist for 12/28/22

 Winter Solstice:

ROUNDS GALORE SINGERS - Ribbon, Bell and Song (John Krumm) - Rounds Galore...and More, Vol. 3 - 2007

JIM SHARKEY - The Christmas Comet - A Lovely Day - 2019

Winter:

TIM GRIMM - The Back Fields - The Back Fields - 2005

MARA LEVINE - Raise the Dead of Wintertime (Allan Rankin) - Mara's Gems - 2008

JACK HARDY - Winter Sunlight - Noir - 2007

ANNE FEENEY - Winter Go Away! - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records

Refugees:

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

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

Joe Troop - Sanctuary Song - Single - 2021

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

Environment:

DAVID ROTH – Is It Too Much to Ask (David Roth/Anne Hills) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018

KATHY MOSER - Straw Clay Wood and Stone - Single - 2011

ANTJE DUVEKOT - Lighthouse - The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer - 2009

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Now Is the Cool of the Day (Jean Ritchie) - We Are Welcomed - 2016

Homeless:

ALICE HOWE - 500 Miles (Hedy West) - Americana Railroad - 2022

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

JIM PAGE - Sleeping on a Car Seat - The Time Is Now - 2022

PAUL SIMON - Homeless - Graceland - 1986/2012

Civil Rights/Racism:

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

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

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

CHRIS PIERCE - American Silence - American Silence - 2021

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Windows of the Heart (Live PMN Concert)- Standing Our Ground - 2006

Gun Control:

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

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Another 17 - Rooted - 2022

REGGIE HARRIS - Love Guides the Wounded Heart - Ready to Go - 2018

ALICIA VIANI - Redemption - Alicia Viani - 2019

New Years:

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

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

Playlist for 11/30/22

 JOHN McCUTCHEON - Finally - Bucket List - 2020

Women's Oppression:

SHARON KLEIN - Noura - The Way Back Home – 2009

JON BROOKS - The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez - Delicate Cages - 2011

SHARON GOLDMAN - Kol Isha (A Woman's Voice) - Kol Isha (A Woman's Voice) - 2016

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

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

Labor Strikes:

BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones on the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

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

JOE JENCKS - Winnipeg 1919 - The Coming of the Years – 2022

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

BEV GRANT - The Women Are Coming - Single - 2003

Immigration/Refugees:

GATHERING TIME - Train Coming - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008

JOEL RAFAEL - Sierra Blanca Massacre - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

DAN FRECHETTE & LAUREL THOMSEN - The Mist of Down Below - New Disguise - 2015

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

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

Capital Punishment:

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

TOM NEILSON - Mumia - Dancin' Shoes - 1997

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

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

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

Climate Change:

THE SUNSHINERS - Truth Time - Endangered Species - 2022

JACKIE MORRIS - Money to Burn - Money to Burn - 2008 Button Box

TIM GRIMM - Black Snake - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - Demo – 2011

Magpie at Mt. Toby Concerts Promo:

MAGPIE - Old John Brown - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit - 2000

MAGPIE - Goodbye to Old Ohio - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit - 2000

MAGPIE - Captain - John Brown, Sword of the Spirit - 2000

Playlist for 11/16/22

 THE EARLY RISERS - Red Bird - Making Life Sweet – 2019

Equality:

MONDAY MORNING DENIAL - Scoundrels That We Are - Scoundrels That We Are - 2016

WINDBORNE - World Turned Upside Down - Of Hard Times & Harmony - 2022

ISABEL TAYLOR - The Crow Bird - Isabel Taylor - 2019

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

SHERIE DAVIS - Stars and Galaxy - My Heart Returns to Me - 2021

Justice/Political Prisoners:

JOE TROOP - Free Leonard Peltier - Single - 2022

TOM NEILSON - Mumia - Dancin' Shoes - 1997

LARA HERSCOVITCH - Mississippi Lullaby - But for the Grace - Four Wise Monkeys – 2012

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

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

Climate change/causes:

THE SUNSHINERS - Truth Time - Endangered Species - 2022

MONDAY MORNING DENIAL - Fish On, Papa - Scoundrels That We Are - 2016

SCOTT COOK - Alberta, You're Breaking My Heart (Scott Cook/Benjamin Caldwell) - Further Down the Line - 2017

JOHN PRINE - Paradise - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010

Climate change- Earth's destruction

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

Emma's Revolution - Our House Is on Fire - Rooted - 2022

DAVID ROVICS - 116 Degrees - Single - 2021

DON CARON - Confounds the Science (Sequel) - Single - 2018 The Parody Project

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

Trump:

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

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Trumpty Dumpty (That's An Emergency) - Rooted - 2022

ROY ZIMMERMAN & MELANIE HARBY - I Got a Really Big Button - Single - 2018

DAVID ROVICS - God's Gift to the Caliphate - Letter to My Landlord - 2016

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

Songs for the Spirit:

SARA THOMSEN - By Breath - By Breath - 2003

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

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Om Sweet Om (Kevin R Moore/ohn Lewis Parker/Om Johari) - TajMo - 2017

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