Thursday, October 24, 2013

Playlist for 10/16/13

MARA LEVINE - Burning Tree - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry 10/16/1859:
DAVID ROVICS - John Brown - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
MAGPIE - Old John Brown - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
MAGPIE - Goodbye to Old Ohio - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
MAGPIE - Captain - John Brown - 2000 Sliced Bread Records
PESKY J. NIXON - John Brown - Red Ducks - 2012
JENNIE AVILA - The Carpenter - Civil War - 2009
THE QUIET AMERICAN - John Brown's Dream - Wild Bill Jones - 2013

Hard Times:
THE STEEL WHEELS - Waters Edge - No More Rain - 2013
HARPETH RISING - The Sparrow - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013 Grimm Rising
HEATHER PIERSON - The Hard Work of Living - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings
PAUL SIMON - The Boxer - Over the Bridge of Time - 2013 Sony Music

Government shutdown/Tea Party Morons:

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Abstain with Me - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
DAVE LIPPMAN - Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs - I Hate Walmart - 1998
ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Beer Party Anthem - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
DAVE LIPPMAN - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Taxed Enough Already? - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Immigrants:
GATHERING TIME - Can't Find Our Way - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
MARA LEVINE - Immigrant Dream - Jewels and Harmony - 2013
HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - Stor Mo Chroi - Pressed for Time - 2013
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

Songs for the Spirit:
THE STEEL WHEELS - O Child - No More Rain - 2013
CHILDSPLAY - The Last Alleluia - As the Crowe Flies - 2013
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Better Days - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
DISAPPEAR FEAR - When I'm Gone - Get Your Phil - 2011
DISAPPEAR FEAR - Start - Broken Film - 2013 Sonia Rutstein

Friday, October 11, 2013

Playlist for 10/9/13

ERIC BALKEY - Everything Is Great - Everything Is Great - 2014 Hudson Harding Music

War:
DAVID ROVICS - From Kabul to Khartoum - Living in these Times - 2001
JON BROOKS - Tajik Boy - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
LINQ - Victim of the War - Caught in the Act Acoustic - 2011
ERIC BALKEY - Born in the USA - Everything Is Great - 2014 Hudson Harding Music

War and Terrorism:
ROY ZIMMERMAN - That Is the War on Terror - Faulty Intelligence - 2004
DAVID ROVICS - Bomb Ourselves - Hang a Flag in the Window - 2002
CHARLIE KING - The War Has Been Coming Home - So Far-So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Send in the Drones - So Far-So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
COLLEEN KATTAU & JOLIE RICKMAN - What Shall We Do with the School of Torture - Sing It Down - 1996 A Two Story Prod.
PAT LAMANNA - Let Us Live - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Indigenous Peoples Day:
NANCY SCHIMMEL - 1492 - Sun, Sun Shine - 1991
DAVID ZIMMERMAN - Columbus - Just a Little Something - 1999
COLLEEN KATTAU - The Itsy Bitsy White Man - Sing It Down - 1996 A Two Story Prod.
JON BROOKS - Sgt. Tommy Prince - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Big Mountain - Live at Club Passim - 2000
AZTEC TWO-STEP - Rabbit in the Moon - Cause & Effect - 2002 Red Engine Records
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

Politics/Republicans:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Single - 2013 Youtube.com
ROY ZIMMERMAN - My Conservative Girlfriend - Faulty Intelligence - 2004
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Vote Republican - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011
CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010

Environment/Fracking:

ANNE HILLS - The Trade - Single 2012
WOOL & GRANT - Get the Frack Out of Here - 2013 Ina May Wool & Bev Grant
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hydrofracking Blues - Singing Clear - 2011 C. Kattau/B. Grant
MARIE BURNS - Gas Man - Singing Clear - 2011 C. Kattau/B. Grant
COLLEEN KATTAU - Hey Speculator - Singing Clear - 2011 C. Kattau/B. Grant
DAVE LIPPMAN - What the Frack - Singing Clear - 2011 C. Kattau/B. Grant

PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Friday, October 4, 2013

Playlist for 10/2/13

October Songs:
PAT LAMANNA - October - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
STEVE SUFFET - The October Waltz - The October Waltz - 2008

Charlie King retrospective album just out: So Far: 40 Songs for 40 Years

CHARLIE KING - Our Life Is More Than Our Work - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Are You Now or Have You Ever Been..? - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - If Jimmy Didn't Have to Go - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Bring Back the Eight Hour Day - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - If Baboons Can Work It Out - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
CHARLIE KING - Send In the Drones - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

Domestic Abuse:
JOHN FUZEK/MARY ANN ROSSONI - Next Bus - Waking Up from the American Dream - 2008
CELESTE KRENZ & REBECCA FOLSOM - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008 Folk Alliance
COLLEEN KATTAU - We Will Take It Back - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
BEV GRANT - Take a Walk in my Shoes - Voices of Women Organizing Project - 2008

American Dream or loss thereof:
JOHN FUZEK/MARY ANN ROSSONI - Waking Up from the American Dream - Waking Up from the American Dream - 2008
BEAUCOUP BLUE - Oh America - Free to Fall - 2009
DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - Cairo - Big Mystery - 2009 Threshold Music
JIM PAGE - Long Corner Turning - Collateral Damage - 2002

Politics/For the Government Shut Down:

CHILDSPLAY - Leave No Millionaire Behind - As the Crow Flies - 2013
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
DAVE LIPPMAN - Tea Party Tango - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Taxed Enough Already?! - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Health Care - We need Obama care:
LINQ - What Happened to the Care - Rx & the Side Effects - 2009
LINQ - No Person on the Line - Rx & the Side Effects - 2009
TOM NEILSON - In a Public Place - In A Public Place - 1991
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Dear Number 103692053887 -Thanks for the Support - 2008 Metaphor Records
CHARLIE KING - Imagine Health Care - So Far-40 Songs for 40 Years - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

HARPETH RISING - The Sparrow - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013 Grimm Rising

Playlist for 9/25/13

ROY ZIMMERMAN - I'm In - 2012

Environment:
DAVE DERSHAM - My Days Are Numbered - The Burn of Summer - 2003
PAT LAMANNA - Banana - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012
THE HONEY DEWDROPS - Hills of My Home - 2012
COLLEEN KATTAU & Some Guys - Mama Don't Allow No Hydrofrackin' - In My Name - 2012
SCOTT COOK - Pass It Along - One More Time Around - 2013
TOM NEILSON - Shifting Gears - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Solar Carol - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings

Corporate world domination:
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Only Eight - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
DAVID FERRARD - The Hour of Plenty - Broken Sky - 2008 Flamingo West Records
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Citizens United - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
DAVE LIPPMAN - Citizens United - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
JIM PAGE - Over My Dead Body - Ghost Bikes - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Shut Them Down - Living in these Times - 2001

Interview with Si Kahn whose new album, Aragon Mill, just came out.
SI KAHN and the Looping Brothers - Five Days A Week - Aragon Mill - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN and the Looping Brothers - Aragon Mill - Aragon Mill - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN and the Looping Brothers - When the Morning Breads - Aragon Mill - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN and the Looping Brothers - Blue Ridge Mountain Refugee - Aragon Mill - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN and the Looping Brothers - What Will I Leave - Aragon Mill - 2013 Strictly Country Records

Palestine:
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - Living in these Times - 2001
STEVE SUFFET - Next ear in a City of Peace - Low Rent District - 2008
DAVE LIPPMAN - Gaza's Ark - gazaark.org - 2012

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Playlist for 9/18/13

THOMAS SNOW - Hard Times - Friends - 2013

Mexican war - 9/13/1847 Us seizes Mexico City:
DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010
TOM NEILSON - Ballad of Mikey Wilcher - Fools No More - 2006
THE CHIEFTAINS with RY COODER - The Sands of Mexico - San Patricio - 2010 Blackrock Records
THE CHIEFTAINS - March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande) - San Patricio - 2010 Blackrock Records

Society's Ills:
EDDIE VEDDER - Society - Into the Wild - 2007 J Records
DAVE DERSHAM - More, More, More - The Burn of Summer - 2003
JEFFERSON PEPPER - Disposable Me, Disposable You - American Evolution - 2008 American Fallout Records
GRANT PEEPLES - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Okra and Ecclesiastes - 2011 Gatorbone Records
ESTHER GOLTON - What Can I Say - Stay Warm - 2013
PETER SIEGEL - Boxed Up - Living in Rome - 2008

Banksters:
JACKIE MORRIS - House of Cards - Tell Me a Story - 2011
STEVE CHIZMADIA - The Wall Street Fat-Cat Tax-Payer Bail -Out Blues - Jack of All Trades - 2012
CHERYL WHEELER - We're the Bank - 2012 DIAS Records
TOM NEILSON - Betting on Terror - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
AUSTERITY ALLSTARS - Bugger the Bankers - 2012 Bandcamp

Racism - for 4 girls killed in Birmingham bombing:
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records
PAMELA MEANS - The Devil's Henchmen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
PAMELA MEANS - Amen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
DAVE DERSHAM - Down in the Delta - The Burn of Summer - 2003

Environment:

SHAWN TAYLOR - Blackwater - Home - 2012
SPARKY & RHONDA RUCKER - Point of No Return - One Earth - 2009 Tremont Prods.
TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012
RAY KORONA - A Little Too Much Sunshine - A Little Too Much Sunshine - 2010

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Clearcut - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Change in Schedule

September 10 will be the last Tuesday "Music of the People" will broadcast live.

Here's the new schedule, starting September 18:

Live show:
Wednesdays - 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Rebroadcasts:
Thursdays - 4:00 - 6:00 am
Saturday - 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday - 8:00 - 10:00 am

Playlist fo 9/3/13

JON FROMER - Dreams Are Made of Songs - Gonna Take Us All - 2008

Middle East/Conflict and Empire:
DAVID ROVICS - Syria - 2013 youtube.com
DAVID ROVICS - Has the Bombing Begun? - 2013 youtube.com
JON BROOKS - The Latest Great Embarrassment - Ours & the Shepherds - 2007
TOM PAXTON - George W Told the Nation - 2007 Pax Music
TOM NEILSON - WMD - Fools No More - 2006
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Demo - 2011

Racism:
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - 2013
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
PAMELA MEANS - Amen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

Economy/Injustice:
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Blue Ridge Mountain Refugee - Aragon Mill-The BlueGrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
LON MILO DUQUETTE - Class Warfare - 2013 youtube.com
DAVEY O. - The Miner's Waltz - Testing for Rust - 2012 h3o Records
DAVEY O. - No Money Down - Testing for Rust - 2012 h3o Records
ELISE WITT - Set Us Free - Valise - 2009

Labor Day:
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Five Days a Week - Aragon Mill-The BlueGrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Aragon Mill - Aragon Mill-The BlueGrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Brookside Strike - Aragon Mill-The BlueGrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - 3 Lefts - 2011 Ormalnye Records
STEVE DEASY - I'm Working for Walmart - People Once Were Welcome Here - 2010
JON FROMER - We Do the Work - We Do the Work
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There - 2002
BEV GRANT - Union Maid - We Were There - 2002
ANNE FEENEY - Whatever Happened to the 8 Hour Day? - Union Maid - 2000
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2000
TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
TOM JURAVICH - Immigrants Like Me - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Labor Day - Supper's on the Table - 2001 Rounder Records