Playlist for 8/19/15

Immigration:
WOOL & GRANT - In America (Bev Grant & Bruce Markow) - 2013 Ina May Wool & Bev Grant
DAVID ROVICS - Statue in the Harbor - When I'm Elected President - 2014
THE BURNS SISTERS - Prisoner of the Promised Land - The Hills of Ithaca - 2012 Sisters Music
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Chelsea Manning:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Chelsea Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011
GRAHAM NASH & JAMES RAYMOND - Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning) - 2011
DAVID NEAL - Bradley Manning - 2012 dissenter.firedoglake.com

Sacco & Vanzetti/Capital Punishment:
CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
DAVID ROVICS - Sacco and Vanzetti - Single - 2008
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - The Ballad of Tim Evans - Pressed for Time - 2013
ANNE HILLS - Iron Lady(Phil Ochs) - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Interview with Dan Schatz - new album: The Promise of the Sowing
DAN SCHATZ- The Promise of the Sowing - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- One Last Look Behind - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records

Cultural Genocide:
JOHN COSTER - Walk So Proud - Lost Horizon - 2013
CHIP TAYLOR - Black & Blue America - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
HEALY & JURAVICH - Storm About Us - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
ELISE WITT - Blessed Nation (Pete Seeger/Jim Musselman/Elise Witt) - Valise - 2009
EDDIE VEDDER - Society - Into the Wild - 2007 J Records
DAN SCHATZ- The Kind Land (Gordon Bok) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records


Environment/Save the Earth:
JOHN COSTER - Last Stand on the Land - Lost Horizon - 2013
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013

Playlist for 8/12/15

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

Nuclear Weapons:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003
GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand (Nazim Hikmet/James Waters) - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004
ROD MacDONALD - Unearthly Fire - 2011 So. Florida Folk Fest
TOM NEILSON - Heroes of the Cold War - Biomess - 2010
SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

Hunger:
JESSE MILNES & EMILY MILLER - Hungry Faint and Poor - Deep End Sessions - 2015
JON FROMER - I Cannot Sleep - We Do the Work
SUE and DWIGHT - Lucky Me - Little Child Big World - 2008
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - I Am Hungry - Economics of an Empty Stomach - 2011

Hard Times:
JENNIFER EVANS - There But for Fortune - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's a Long Way to the Soup Line (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs
PETER KEANE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) - Rural Electification - 2015
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster) - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio

Economy/Income Disparity:
CLINT ALPHIN - Blessed Are the Rich - Post Modern Man - 2015
SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles - 2011
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - The Favor - 2012
LON MILO DUQUETTE - Class Warfare - Sweet Baba Lon - 2015
PADDY MILLS - Race to the Bottom - Race to the Bottom - 2104

Domestic Abuse:
PAMELA MEANS - Pollack in Pink - Precedent - 2009 Phylorra Music
CAROLYN CURRIE - Red Hawk Rising - Echolocation - 2014
ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
FACES OF EVE/Celeste & Rebecca - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008
JENNIFER EVANS - The Rights of Battered Women - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
COLLEEN KATTAU - We Will Take It Back - Inhabited Woman - 2007

Peace:
CLINT ALPHIN - Plowshares - Post Modern Man - 2015
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - One By One (Song for Trayvon Martin) - 2012 Demo

Playlist for 8/5/15

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

Oil:
THE HOLLANDS! - That Fatal Shore - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising
CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Black Sea - Stand Up! - 2004 Appalseed Productions
THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Oil and Water - 2012 youtube.com
DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com
DANA HUBBARD - Petroleum People - Folk Songs for Climate Justice - 2013 Peaceful Uprising

Fracking:
THOM CHACON - Before the Drilling Rigs Got Here - 2014
PETER ALSOP - Frack, Frack, Fracking - River of Life - 2015
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hydrofracking Blues (Alison Frost) - Singing Clear - 2011 Colleen Kattau & Bev Grant
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - Ten New Songs - 2011

Development/Gentrification:
JACKIE MORRIS - China Blue - Money to Burn - 2008 Button Box
MISSY WERNER - Main Street - Turn This Heart Around - 2014
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - City of Dreams - Childhood Home - 2014
PETER SIEGEL - The Local's Leaving Town - Living in Rome - 2008
JACKIE MORRIS - Where the Legends Grow Like Weeds - Where the Legends Grow Like Weeds - 2005 Button Box

Immigration:
ERIC BANNAN - An American Dream - Stumbling Towards the Light - 2015
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josselline - New Hard Time Blues - 2011
JOEL RAFAEL - Sierra Blanca Massacre - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD - Hello, Bonjour (Franti & Itene) - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK - Are We A Nation? - Border Songs - 2012 No More Deaths

Religion:
ROY SCHNEIDER - Old Tyme Religion - Ten from the Pen - 2015
PAT LAMANNA - If I Believed in God - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
SARA THOMSEN - The Good News - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - Who Would Jesus Bomb - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

Playlist for 7/29/15

R.I.P. Theodore Bikel:
THEODORE BIKEL - Dona Dona - youtube

Pollution of the Earth:
DAN SCHATZ- The Promise of the Sowing - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
DAN SCHATZ- Something in the Rain - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
MAGPIE - This Old Bay (Bob Zentz) - Living Planet - 1989 - Long Tail Records
SARA THOMSEN - Precious Water - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

Lost Farms:
TIM GRIMM - 80 Acres - Farm Songs - 2009
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New - 2005
BETH DeSOMBRE - For Winter - Crooked Highways - 2007
GENE MORRISON - Crying in the Night - Looking Back - 2010
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Corporate Farms:
DAN SCHATZ- Eighty Acre Farm (Doug Becken) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
BEN & ELLEN HARPER - Farmer's Daughter - Childhood Home - 2014
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Corporate Farm - Not Alone - 2013 Vigitant Records
JACKIE MORRIS - Factory Farm - Can't Fix Crazy - 2014 Button Box
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Ask Any Farmer - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

Death of Fishing:
DAN SCHATZ- In the Old Days - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records
FINEST KIND - No More Fish, No Fishermen (Shelley Posen/John Goss) - Heart's Delight - 1999 Fallen Angel Music
PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music
EAGLE McCALL - The Mains'l and the Bell - Song of the Seas - 2012

Development/Gentrification (more to come next week):
HARPETH RISING - Day After Day - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013
JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music

JUD CASWELL - Blackberry Time - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music