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