Signature Song:
BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006
War on Terror:
DAVID ROVICS - Osama Bin Laden is Dead - 2011 youtube.com
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Silence and Lies - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MARK ERELLI - The Only Way - Not In Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - I Wonder Why - Higher Ground - 2008
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006
TOM NEILSON - Betting On Terror - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Fertile Ground - 1999
Pollution:
MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - 2011 Youtube.com
DAVID ROVICS - No Fracking Way - 2011 Youtube.com
RAY KORONA BAND - Water - the Song - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess - 2010
Phone Interview with David Ferrard for upcoming show at Echo Lake Coffeehouse, Leverett, MA
DAVID FERRARD - Broken Sky - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - The Slave's Lament - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records
Freedom:
RAY KORONA BAND - The Cost of Freedom - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - The Freedom Song - Higher Ground - 2008
ELLEN BUKSTEL & NICK ANNIS - By My Silence - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Bound for Freedom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
History in Song:
DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
John Brown b.5/9/1800 militant abolitionist inTorrington, CT
DAVID ROVICS - Up the Provos (Song for Francis Hughes) - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
5/12/1981 - Irish Republican prisoner Francis Hughes dies on his 59th day on hunger strike.
VOICES - Step By Step - Step By Step - 1996
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Playlist for 4/3/11
BEV GRANT & the Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman 2006
I Want a New America:
COCO & Lafe - The Dreaming Bean - Big Bang! -2011 Skyhunter Music
ANNE HILLS - My America - Make Levees, Vol 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
JOHN FLYNN - America's Waiting - America's Waiting -2009
SI KAHN - Hard Times - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
JIM PAGE - I Want a New America - Ghost Bikes - 2010
For the Environment:
TERRY KITCHEN - That's How It Used to Be - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire Prods.
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - 2010 youtube.com
HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records
JOE JENCKS - Tikun Olam - The Candle & the Flame - 2007
End the War on the World:
TOM NEILSON - Nothing Like a War - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
TOM NEILSON - No Business Like War Business - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - The War Is Over - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts At Home - 2005
PAUL KAPLAN - Just Another War - The Folk Process - 3008 Old Coat Music
Peace:
SARA THOMSEN - KEEPIN' THE Peace - Big Breath - 2003
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If You Want Peace - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MINDY SIMMONS - Peace Throughout the Land - One World/Our World - 2009
David Ferrard at the Echo Lake May 14:
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - Visions of Our Youth - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - This Heart - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
May Day/Labor Day:
SI KAHN - Momma Was a Union Woman - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim -2000
ANNE FEENEY - We Fought Back - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back - 2008
TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MAGPIE - Mrs. MacDonald's Lament - Working My Life Away - 1982 Collector Records
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS - Rockin' Solidarity Forever - The Power of Song - Bev Grant
MAGPIE - Give Light - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
I Want a New America:
COCO & Lafe - The Dreaming Bean - Big Bang! -2011 Skyhunter Music
ANNE HILLS - My America - Make Levees, Vol 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
JOHN FLYNN - America's Waiting - America's Waiting -2009
SI KAHN - Hard Times - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
JIM PAGE - I Want a New America - Ghost Bikes - 2010
For the Environment:
TERRY KITCHEN - That's How It Used to Be - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire Prods.
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - 2010 youtube.com
HEATHER MASSE - Bird Song - Bird Song - 2009 Red House Records
JOE JENCKS - Tikun Olam - The Candle & the Flame - 2007
End the War on the World:
TOM NEILSON - Nothing Like a War - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
TOM NEILSON - No Business Like War Business - Only Outlaws Will Be Free - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - The War Is Over - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts At Home - 2005
PAUL KAPLAN - Just Another War - The Folk Process - 3008 Old Coat Music
Peace:
SARA THOMSEN - KEEPIN' THE Peace - Big Breath - 2003
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - If You Want Peace - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MINDY SIMMONS - Peace Throughout the Land - One World/Our World - 2009
David Ferrard at the Echo Lake May 14:
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - Visions of Our Youth - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
DAVID FERRARD - This Heart - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
May Day/Labor Day:
SI KAHN - Momma Was a Union Woman - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim -2000
ANNE FEENEY - We Fought Back - Dump the Bosses Off Your Back - 2008
TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
MAGPIE - Mrs. MacDonald's Lament - Working My Life Away - 1982 Collector Records
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S CHORUS - Rockin' Solidarity Forever - The Power of Song - Bev Grant
MAGPIE - Give Light - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Playlist for 4/26/11
BEV GRANT - Emma Goldman - Cheeky Woman - 2006
More for Earth Day:
LES SAMPOU - Nature's Song - Sweet Perfume
DEAN STEVENS - Dias de Amar - Eyes of Wonder - 1993
PETER MAYER - All the World Is One - Heaven Below - 2010
MAGPIE - The Rainforest Song - Living Planet - 1989
SARAH SAMPLE - Pull the Plug - Never Close Enough - 2007 Ramona Records
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Feminism and Women's Rights:
KRISTIN LEMS - We Will Never Give Up
THE HUMAN CONDITION/BEVERLY GRANT - Inez
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be An Engineer
CHRIS GAYLORD - Don't Talk to Strangers
SAMMY WALKER - Catcher in the Rye
ELAINE WHITE - The Time Will Come
Economic Injustice:
DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - mp3 - 2011
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts - Fools No More - 2006
DAVE LIPPMAN - Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs - I Hate Walmart -1998
TOM NEILSON - Business As Usual - Biomess - 2010
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Don't Pay Taxes - Sparks and Tears - 2003
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Ddembe -Junior Number 13 - 2006
The Empire - South of the border:
ETHAN MILLER & Kate Boverman - Recipe for Cocaine - mp3 - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick Battalion - Troubador-People's History in Song - 2010
DAVID FERRARD - Hard Times Come Again No More - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records
More for Earth Day:
LES SAMPOU - Nature's Song - Sweet Perfume
DEAN STEVENS - Dias de Amar - Eyes of Wonder - 1993
PETER MAYER - All the World Is One - Heaven Below - 2010
MAGPIE - The Rainforest Song - Living Planet - 1989
SARAH SAMPLE - Pull the Plug - Never Close Enough - 2007 Ramona Records
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Feminism and Women's Rights:
KRISTIN LEMS - We Will Never Give Up
THE HUMAN CONDITION/BEVERLY GRANT - Inez
PEGGY SEEGER - Gonna Be An Engineer
CHRIS GAYLORD - Don't Talk to Strangers
SAMMY WALKER - Catcher in the Rye
ELAINE WHITE - The Time Will Come
Economic Injustice:
DAVID ROVICS - Tax the Rich - mp3 - 2011
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts - Fools No More - 2006
DAVE LIPPMAN - Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs - I Hate Walmart -1998
TOM NEILSON - Business As Usual - Biomess - 2010
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
CHARLIE KING & Karen Brandow - Don't Pay Taxes - Sparks and Tears - 2003
LARA HERSCOVITCH - Ddembe -Junior Number 13 - 2006
The Empire - South of the border:
ETHAN MILLER & Kate Boverman - Recipe for Cocaine - mp3 - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick Battalion - Troubador-People's History in Song - 2010
DAVID FERRARD - Hard Times Come Again No More - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009 Alter Road Records
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Playlist for 4/19/11
For Earth Day:
ANNIE DINERMAN - One Planet at a Time -Broken Cookies - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MAGPIE - We Belong to the Earth - In This World - 2008
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
JEFF AMPOLSK - Brown Water and Blood
THOM PARROTT - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy
LUCINDA WILLIAMS - LaFayette
CHARLIE BROWN - The Ballad of Earl Durand
ERNIE MARRS - Plastic Jesus
JIM COLLIER/FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - Burn, Baby Burn
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - The Cities Are Burning
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK -Nothing But His Blood
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - You're Just a Laughing Fool
WENDY SMITH - Time Is Running Out
SIS CUNNINGHAM - But If I Ask Them
SAMMY WALKER - Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy
PHIL OCHS - Changes
SAMMY WALKER/PHIL OCHS - Bound for Glory
ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006
SARA THOMSEN - Oh, You Dance - Fertile Ground - 1999
ANNIE DINERMAN - One Planet at a Time -Broken Cookies - 2009
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
MAGPIE - We Belong to the Earth - In This World - 2008
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
JEFF AMPOLSK - Brown Water and Blood
THOM PARROTT - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy
LUCINDA WILLIAMS - LaFayette
CHARLIE BROWN - The Ballad of Earl Durand
ERNIE MARRS - Plastic Jesus
JIM COLLIER/FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - Burn, Baby Burn
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - The Cities Are Burning
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK -Nothing But His Blood
FREDERICK DOUGLASS KIRKPATRICK - You're Just a Laughing Fool
WENDY SMITH - Time Is Running Out
SIS CUNNINGHAM - But If I Ask Them
SAMMY WALKER - Ragamuffin Minstrel Boy
PHIL OCHS - Changes
SAMMY WALKER/PHIL OCHS - Bound for Glory
ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Swimming to the Other Side - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006
SARA THOMSEN - Oh, You Dance - Fertile Ground - 1999
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Playlist for 4/12/11
He's still there, despite US backed coup:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Hugo Chavez - For the Moment - 2005
From the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Vietnam:
THOM PARROTT - Pinkville Helicopter
MATTHEW JONES & ELAINE LARON - Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
PHIL OCHS - We Seek No Wider War
PETE SEEGER - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
PAUL KAPLAN - Vietnam
COURT DORSEY - Interview for "Ambush of T Street"
Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake 4/16/11:
BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One, The Cherry Mine and Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
From the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Social Injustice:
THOM PARROTT - Hole in the Ground
WES HOUSTON - To Be A Killer
PETE SEEGER - New York J-D Blues
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Little Boxes
MIKE MULLIUS - Not Enough to Live On But a Little Too Much to Die
MALVINA REYNOLDS - The Faucet Are Dripping
HAPPY TRAUM & GIL TURNER - Bizzness Ain't Dead
PETE SEEGER - Business
EWAN MacCOLL - Legal-Illegal
GREENFIELD HARMONY - One Voice - Live Concert 12/18/10
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Hugo Chavez - For the Moment - 2005
From the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Vietnam:
THOM PARROTT - Pinkville Helicopter
MATTHEW JONES & ELAINE LARON - Hell No, I Ain't Gonna Go
PHIL OCHS - We Seek No Wider War
PETE SEEGER - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
PAUL KAPLAN - Vietnam
COURT DORSEY - Interview for "Ambush of T Street"
Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake 4/16/11:
BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One, The Cherry Mine and Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
From the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
Social Injustice:
THOM PARROTT - Hole in the Ground
WES HOUSTON - To Be A Killer
PETE SEEGER - New York J-D Blues
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Little Boxes
MIKE MULLIUS - Not Enough to Live On But a Little Too Much to Die
MALVINA REYNOLDS - The Faucet Are Dripping
HAPPY TRAUM & GIL TURNER - Bizzness Ain't Dead
PETE SEEGER - Business
EWAN MacCOLL - Legal-Illegal
GREENFIELD HARMONY - One Voice - Live Concert 12/18/10
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Playlist for 4/5/11
In Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr:
MATTHEW JONES - Long Kesh -Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records
FRICTION FARM - Birmingham - Every Mile Is A Memory - 2010 Aidan Quinn & Christine Stay
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Are Gone - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake, Leverett, MA April 16:
BEN BEDFORD - Goodbye, Jack - Lincoln's Man - 2008 Hopeful Sky Records
BEN BEDFORD - Lincoln's Man
BEN BEDFORD - Migrant Mother
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
MIKE MILLIUS - The Ballad of Martin Luther King
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS: LEN CHANDLER & TOM PAXTON - Carry It On
RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday
DANNY VALDEZ & AUGUSTIN LIRA - The Migrant's Song
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO: LUIS VALDEZ, Dir.
JUDY & DANNY ROSE-REDWOOD - La Lucha Continuara
RAIMON - Contra la Por
PETE SEEGER - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
MATT McGINN - If It Wasn't for the Union
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Pat Sky & David Cohen - More Good Men Going Down
SIS CUNNINGHAM - Sundown
SIS CUNNINGHAM - My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)
DEBORAH SILVERSTEIN & the New Harmony Sisterhood Band - Draglines
PETE SEEGER - My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
MATTHEW JONES - Long Kesh -Songs of Dissent - 1998 Revolt in Records
FRICTION FARM - Birmingham - Every Mile Is A Memory - 2010 Aidan Quinn & Christine Stay
MAGPIE - A Toast to Those Who Are Gone - The Long Walk to Freedom - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change
Ben Bedford at the Echo Lake, Leverett, MA April 16:
BEN BEDFORD - Goodbye, Jack - Lincoln's Man - 2008 Hopeful Sky Records
BEN BEDFORD - Lincoln's Man
BEN BEDFORD - Migrant Mother
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962 - 1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways:
MIKE MILLIUS - The Ballad of Martin Luther King
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS: LEN CHANDLER & TOM PAXTON - Carry It On
RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday
DANNY VALDEZ & AUGUSTIN LIRA - The Migrant's Song
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO: LUIS VALDEZ, Dir.
JUDY & DANNY ROSE-REDWOOD - La Lucha Continuara
RAIMON - Contra la Por
PETE SEEGER - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
MATT McGINN - If It Wasn't for the Union
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Pat Sky & David Cohen - More Good Men Going Down
SIS CUNNINGHAM - Sundown
SIS CUNNINGHAM - My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)
DEBORAH SILVERSTEIN & the New Harmony Sisterhood Band - Draglines
PETE SEEGER - My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Playlist for 3/29/11
100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory:
BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones On the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009
SI KAHN - Washington Square - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - We Were There! - 2002
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings:
PETE SEEGER - The Willing Conscript
THE FUGS - Kill for Peace
ERIC ANDERSEN & PHIL OCHS - Plains of Nebrasky-O
GIL TURNER - Benny Kid Paret
TOM PAXTON - What Did You Learn in School Today?
PIL OCHS - Changin' Hands
BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pat Sky - Welcome, Welcome, Emigrante
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Shady Acres
WILL McLEAN & PAUL CHAMPION - Lord, Hold Back the Waters
BLIND BOY GRUNT (Bob Dylan) - The Ballad of Donald White
SAMMY WALKER & SIS CUNNINGHAM - Song for Patty
RICHARD BLACK - A Very Close Friend of Mine
ERIC ANDERSEN - Long Time Troubled Road
PETE SEEGER - Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam
THE FREEDOM SINGERS - We'll Never Turn Back
PHIL OCHS - Freedom Riders
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS/LEN CHANDLER - Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon)
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Baby, I've Been Thinking
LEN CHANDLER/Bernice Johnson Reagon - I'm Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail
BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones On the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009
SI KAHN - Washington Square - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country
BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - We Were There! - 2002
The following songs are from the Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings:
PETE SEEGER - The Willing Conscript
THE FUGS - Kill for Peace
ERIC ANDERSEN & PHIL OCHS - Plains of Nebrasky-O
GIL TURNER - Benny Kid Paret
TOM PAXTON - What Did You Learn in School Today?
PIL OCHS - Changin' Hands
BROADSIDE SINGERS w/ Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pat Sky - Welcome, Welcome, Emigrante
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Shady Acres
WILL McLEAN & PAUL CHAMPION - Lord, Hold Back the Waters
BLIND BOY GRUNT (Bob Dylan) - The Ballad of Donald White
SAMMY WALKER & SIS CUNNINGHAM - Song for Patty
RICHARD BLACK - A Very Close Friend of Mine
ERIC ANDERSEN - Long Time Troubled Road
PETE SEEGER - Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam
THE FREEDOM SINGERS - We'll Never Turn Back
PHIL OCHS - Freedom Riders
THE BROADSIDE SINGERS/LEN CHANDLER - Father's Grave (for Cordell Reagon)
BLIND GIRL GRUNT (Janis Ian) - Baby, I've Been Thinking
LEN CHANDLER/Bernice Johnson Reagon - I'm Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail
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