Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Playlist for 5/16/18

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

Refugees/Immigrants:

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Playlist for 5/9/18

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

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

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

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

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

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

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