Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Playlist for 12/8/21

BILL STAINES- River - The Whistle of the Jay - 1979
BILL STAINES- A Place in the Choir - The Whistle of the Jay - 1979

DAVE LIPPMAN - Friend of the Fetus - No Sale - 1992
PETE KRONOWITT - Body, Choice & Mind - A Lone Voice - 2016
ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Am A Woman - Revolution Now - 2017
SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- Nobody's Body But Mine (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020 Strictly Country Records

MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Singalong Second Amendment - Real American – 2010
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Gun Country - We the People - 2013
SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004
KORA FEDER - Automatic Times - In Sevens – 2019

JIM SHARKEY - The Plight of the Yazidis - Sweet Anne's Road - 2017
SARA THOMSEN - Halabja - Somewhere to Begin – 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Watch the Buildings Crumble - May Day - 2021
MARION HALLIDAY - If Statues Could Speak - Rings Around Saturn - 2019
DAVID ROTH – Trail of Tears (David Roth/Freebo) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music

BETT PADGETT - Masks - Trefalen - 1999
SI KAHN - So Long Ago - Thanksgiving - 2007
ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest - 2019
3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone – 2013
TOM PRASADA-RAO - It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Nancy Griffith) - Single - 2021

JOHN SHELDON – The Same Water – Single – 2016

CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Machine - Ghost Light – 2018
ASHLEY STORROW - Wild Wind - The Bear and the Bird - 2016
3HATTRIO - Get Up Stand Up - Solitaire - 2016
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

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

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Playlist for 12/1/21

Winter: 

DAVID DODSON - Life Goes On - Life Goes On - 2017
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Finally - Bucket List - 2020
Labor/Unions:
SHELBY BOTTOM DUO & Friends - What We Want (Joe Hill/Percy Wenrich) - Joe Hill Roadshow - 2016
MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reece) - When We Stand Together - 2017
JOE JENCKS - You Are the "U" in Union (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
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
Slavery:
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board! - 2007 Appleseed Recordings
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More - 2006
MARIENNE KREITLOW - Motherless Child - Like Noah's Dove - 2014 Living Song
RHIANNON GIDDENS - Barbados (William Cowper/Dirk Powell) - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings
CRYS MATTHEWS - One and the Same - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
Mass Shootings/Gun Control:
LEON ROSSELSON - Child Killers - Harry's Gone Fishing - 2000 Gadfly
KATHY MOSER - Someone Like You - Someone Like You - 2007
EFRAT - Bring Me Peace - The Silver Lining - 2015
ABBIE GARDNER - I Can't Believe - Wishes on a Neon Sign - 2018
JOE JENCKS - Why Are the Guns Still Firing - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music
Sex Trafficking:
SARAH PIRTLE - A Million Flowers - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - Underground - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music
DAVE FRY - Louise (Paul Siebel) - Troubadour - 2018
DAVID FRANCEY – Blue Girl – Empty Train – 2016 Laker Music
Values:
GUY FORSYTH & JESKA BAILEY - The Things That Matter - Conspirators - 2019 Small & Nimble Records
JUD CASWELL - Get Poor Slow - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019
SCOTT COOK – What to Keep – Tangle of Souls – 2020
TIM GRIMM - Too Hard Drivin' - Heart Land Again - 2019
Hannukah:
RACHEL SAGE - Tchatchles & Latkes - Joy! - 2017
GREENFIELD HARMONY - Ocho Kandelikas - Live Concert - Mary Cay Brass, Director - 2008
SARA THOMSEN - Hanerot Halalu - Winter Wanderings - 2012

JOHN SHELDON - The Same Water - Single – 2016

Playlist for 11/24/21

 Thanksgiving:

JESSE PALIDOFSKY - Give Thanks - Our Better Angels - 2021
Native Americans:
JOSEPH FIRECROW - Silent Warrior - Face the Music - 2009
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
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Sing Our Own Song (UB40/Sainte-Marie) - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music
NANCY BLAKE -The Talking Leaves - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco) - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings
Native American Genocide:
NANCY SCHIMMEL - 1492 - Sun, Sun Shine - 1991
RHIANON GIDDENS - The Vanishing Race - (Johnny Horton) - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
GREG CORNELL & THE CORNELL BROTHERS - Trail of Tears - Come On Home - 2016
EMMYLOU HARRIS - Apache Tears (Johnny Cash)- Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
BYRD & STREET - The Good Old Days - This Much Is True - 2017
Black Lives Matter:
KIRK MANN - Say Their Names - Say Their Names – 2020
CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021
TOM PRASADA-RAO - $20 Bill (for George Floyd) - Single - 2020
DAVID ROVICS - Elijah Played the Violin - Say Their Names – 2020
RHIANNON GIDDENS - Freedom Highway - Single - 2017
Fascism:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION w/ Cathy Fink - On A Day in January - Single - 2021
ROD MacDONALD - For the Good of America - Recognition - 2003
JIM PAGE - Masters Of Lies - A Hand Full of Songs - 2017
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Machine - Ghost Light - 2018
LEONARD COHEN - The Future - The Future - 1992 Sony Music
Coal Mining:
BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Blantyre Explosion - Beg & Borrow - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Big Mountain - Live At Club Passim - 2000
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
Songs for the Spirit:
SWAMP BROTHERS - Food on the Table - The Tennessee Sessions - 2015
JOHN SHELDON - The Same Water - Single - 2016

Playlist for 11/17/21

 

BETT PADGETT - When Winter Comes to Call - Turning Over Stones - 2021
COVID-19:
DAVID ROTH & GRANT BALDWIN - When the Universe Is Ready - Single - 2020
ERIC LAMBERT - Mother Earth - Beating the Odds - 2021
CATHERINE MacLELLAN & CHRYS MATTHEWS - More Than It Took - Single - 2021 Folk Alliance
DAVID ROVICS - If A Song Could Make Your Troubles Go Away - May Day - 2021
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sheltered in Place - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020
Famine:
TIM GRIMM - The Hungry Grass - A Stranger in This Time - 2017
DAVID ROTH – Trail of Tears (David Roth/Freebo) – Last Day on this Earth – 2018 May the Light Music
DERVISH - The Fields of Athenry (Pete St. John) - The Great Irish Songbook - 2019 Rounder Records
PARTINGTON & SWEENEY - Deer Island - Commonplaces - 2020
DAVID ROTH - Goodness Is More Than a Dream - So Far, So Good - 2015
Dust Bowl:
ROBERT JONES & MATT WATROBA - Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) - Common Chords – 2019
ANDY & JUDY - Trouble in the Fields (Nancy Griffith & Rick West ) - Single - 2021
STEVE COFFEE - Black Sunday - Rain Follows the Plow - 2014 Sampler
CROWE'S PASTURE - Going Down the Road (Woody Guthrie/Lee Hays) – Crowe's Pasture - 2016
KYLE CAREY - Trouble in the Fields (Nancy Griffith & Rick West) - The Art of Forgetting - 2018
Racism/Hatred:
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
TOM PRASADA-RAO - It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Nancy Griffith) - Single - 2021
ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest - 2019
3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013
PAMELA MEANS - The Color of His Skin - 2014
Politics:
ZOE SPEAKS - There's A Hole Where Your Soul's Supposed to Be - Wings - 2018
SI KAHN - Talking Politicians - New Wood - 1994 Rounder
DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
Healing:
MIKE WARD - In the Light - The Darkness and the Light - 2021
JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

Playlist for 11/10/21

 

MARA LEVINE - Burning Tree (Elmer Beal, Jr.) Jewels and Harmony - 2013
Veterans Day:
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
RICH EILBERT - Back from the War - Back from the War - 2009
PAUL SIMON - The Riverbank - Stranger to Stranger - 2016
JOHN PRINE - Sam Stone - The Best of John Prine - 1976 Atlantic Recording Corp.
War - WWI:
ERIC BOGLE - No Man's Land - Plain and Simple – 2020
NELL ROBINSON - The Forgotten Soldier Boy (Bert Layne) - The Rose of No-Man's Land – 2014
JON BROOKS - In Flanders Fields - (Words by John McRae) - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
PAUL KAPLAN --I Can't Remember Wintertime - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Christmas in the Trenches - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records
Aging:
JANIS IAN - I'm Still Standing - Single - 2021
LUCY BILLINGS - What You Gonna Do? - Carry the Water - 2014
ANNE FEENEY - The Dutchman (Michael Smith) - Enchanted Way - 2010
LEONARD COHEN - Stages - Can't Forget - 2013 Sony Music
Death:
LISA BASTONI - Across the Great Divide - Single - 2021
SCOTT COOK - Go On, Ray - Moonlit Rambles - 2011
LOUISE MOSRIE - Land of the Living - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Gone, Gonna Rise Again - Aragon Mill/The Bluegrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
Refugees/Immigrants:
ERIC BOGLE - Refugee - At This Stage (The Live Collection) - 2005
JESSE PALIDOFSKY - America The Beautiful - Our Better Angels - 2021
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Immigrant - Supper's On the Table - 2005 Appalsongs
ANI DiFRANCO - Deportee (Woody Guthrie) - Woody Guthrie at 100 - 2012 Legacy Recordings
BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth – 2013
Climate Change:
ERIC LAMBERT - Mother Earth - Beating the Odds - 2021
JESSE PALIDOFSKY - Respect Your Mother - Our Better Angels - 2021
NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017
JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time - 2021
HARPETH RISING - In the Singing - Against All Tides - 2017
Love:
JESSE PALIDOFSKY - Love Is the Strand - Our Better Angels - 2021

Playlist for 10/20/21

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Finally - Bucket List – 2020
Unions/Strikes:
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One – 2005
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Stand Together - RPM -2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003
TOM JURAVICH - We Are Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Step by Step - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records
Immigrants/Refugees:
THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt - 2017
BETH DeSOMBRE - Take Me In - Resistance - 2017
LUCY KAPLANSKY/RICHARD SHINDELL/ DAR WILLIAMS - Cathedrals: Cry Cry Cry (Jump Little Children) - Single - 2018
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Dream - Rize Up - 2018
Iraq War:
TOM PAXTON - George W. Told the Nation - 2007
DAVID ROVICS - Operation Iraqi Liberation - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
AMY MARTIN - It's About Oil - Partake - 2005
ANNE FEENEY - Shell Game - If I Can't Dance - 2006
THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw - 2007
Politics:
JUD CASWELL - The Great Divide - Single - 2020
RON ISRAEL - Tribal War - Tribal War - 2018
LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010
MURRAY McLAUCHLAN - America - Hourglass - 2021
Climate Change:
NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017
JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time – 2021
CHRIS RONALD - Still Turning - Light & Dark - 2021
DAVID ROVICS - Famine, Flood and Fire - Ballad of A Wobbly – 2017
COLLEEN KATTAU - When's It Gonna Rain - Promo CD - 2015
Joe Jencks at Mt. Toby concerts:
BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth – 2013
JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017
Poverty:
AMBER CROSS - Storms of Scarcity - Savage on the Downhill - 2017
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

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

 

Playlist for 10/27/2021

 

PADDY MILLS - It's Getting Cold - The Good Life - 2016
Racism:
RHIANNON GIDDENS/AMYTHYST KIAH/ALLISON RUSSELL- Moon Meets the Sun - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Fire in Ferguson - Revolution Now - 2017
ANI DiFRANCO - Take Down Your Flag - (Peter Mulvey) - 2015
ZOE MULFORD - The President Sang Amazing Grace - Small Brown Birds - 2017
Women:
DELLA MAE - Headlight - Headlight - 2020
BEV GRANT - Take A Walk in my Shoes - The Voices of Women Organizing Project - 2008
KARYN OLIVER - Edwina - A List of Names - 2019
ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017
SARA THOMSEN - Too Many Roosters- Song Like A Seed - 2020
War:
JIM SHARKEY - Sweet Anne's Road - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015
STORYHILL - Better Angels - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Killing Game - Revolution Now - 2017
DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002
DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
Climate Change:
ALLISON LUPTON & CRAIG WERTH - When Trouble Comes - Single - 2020
JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree of Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records
THE WHISPERING TREE - Garden- Invisible Forces – 2018
DAVID ROVICS - Text Messages of the Apocalypse - Single 2017
AARON NATHANS & MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Old Waltzes and Skylights - Hang On for the Ride - 2017
Change:
SARA THOMSEN - Metamorphosis - Everything Changes - 2008
JOHN COSTER - The World Has Changed - The World Has Changed - 2002 Sakkara Records
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017
HARPETH RISING - Day After Day - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo - 2017
Songs for the Spirit:
JOE JENCKS - Rise As One - I Hear Your Voice - 2003
TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - All Around the World (Kevin R Moore/Chic Street Man) - TajMo - 2017
SARA THOMSEN - Deep Peace - By Breath - 2003