Friday, September 19, 2014

Playlist for 9/10/14

Native American:
GILLIAN WELCH/DAVID RAWLINGS/NANCY BLAKE - As Long as the Grass Shall Grow (Reprise)- Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
STEVE EARLE - Custer - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
NANCY BLAKE -The Talking Leaves - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
NORMAN BLAKE - Drums - Look Again to the Wind - 2014 Sony Music
KENNETH PATTENGALE - White Girl - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music

Death of Downtown:
DAVEY O. - The Main Street - No Passengers - 2014
MATT BORRELLO - Silver City - Don't Turn Around - 2010
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Brokenville - Train of Life -2010
SPOOK HANDY - Mom & Pop's Small Towne Corner Hardware Store - Whatcha Gonna Do? - 2007 Akashic Records
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Closing the Bookstore Down - Supper's on the Table - 2001 Rounder Records

Homelessness:

JACK WILLIAMS - Sleeping in the Streets - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013
FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
3 PENNY ACRE - Rag and Bone -Rag and Bone - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - A Dream Forclosed - Everything Changes - 2013
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

9/11:

KITTY DONOHOE - There Are No Words - Northern Borders - 2008 Roheen Records
TOM PAXTON - The Bravest - Looking for the Moon - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
ROBIN GREENSTEN - Hole in the Ground - Single - 2002
DAVID ROVICS - The Dying Firefighter - Living in These Times - 2001
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Short Shift at Ground Zero - Simplicity - 2002

9/11 Aftermath:
JANE ZELL - I Remember - Peace Songs CNY - 2012
TONY DENIKOS - Kill 'Em All - Time Tells Tales - 2003
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
LUCY KAPLANSKY - Land of the Living - The Red Thread - 2004

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Playlist for 9/3/14

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Step by Step - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records

LABOR DAY - Strikes:

BEN BEDFORD - Mother Jones on the Line - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
DAVID ROVICS - Battle of Blair Mountain - Troubador/People's HIstory in Song - 2010
LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music
SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - 3 Lefts - 2011 Ormalnye Records
ARLO GUTHRIE with the Dillards - Ludlow Massacre - Thirty-two Cents - 2008 Rising Son Records

Unions:
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002
ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid - Union Maid - 2003
TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? - Rise As One - 2005

Interview with Caroline Doctorow:
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - Raven Girl - Raven Girl - 2014
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - Trigger in My Mind - Raven Girl - 2014
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - Circle of Friends - Raven Girl - 2014
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - Emmy Electric - Raven Girl - 2014
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - The Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood - Raven Girl - 2014

The Disappeared:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Las Damas de Blanco - Passage - 2010 Appalseed Prods.
DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
JOLIE RICKMAN - soa Fight Song - Sing It Down - 1996 A Two Story Production
COLLEEN KATTAU & Some Guys - Con Liberdad - The Living Years - 2013

Native Americans:

GILLIAN WELCH/DAVID RAWLINGS - As Long as the Grass Shall Grow - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
EMMYLOU HARRIS - Apache Tears - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
RHIANON GIDDENS - The Vanishing Race - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music
BILL MILLER - Look Again to the Wind - Look Again to the Wind/Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited - 2014 Sony Music

Playlist for 8/27/14

For Michael Brown:
BRAD YODER - Land of the Free - Used - 2002
DAVE LIPPMAN - Hands Up - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - His Hands Were in the Air - Single - 2014
J COLE - Be Free - Single - 2014

Empire:
LYNNE TAYLOR - Grand Empire - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
JONATHAN BYRD - I Was an Oak Tree - Cackalack - 2010
DAVID ROVICS - Resistance - Return - 2003
HEALY & JURAVICH - Arabian Nights - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
DAVID ROVICS - Hand A Flag in the Window - Hand A Flag in the Window - 2002
JIM PAGE - Who Are They and Why Do They Hate Us? - Collateral Damage - 2002
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Fertile Ground - 1999

Hard Times for Children:
LYNNE TAYLOR - Pablo's Glue - When Lightning Strikes - 2014
ANNA DAGMAR - We Were Children - Satellite - 2012
SUSAN TONEY - Strange Child - Strange Child - 2007 Strange Child Records
SARAH PIRTLE - A Million Flowers - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music
SUE and DWIGHT - See the Little Baby - Little Child Big World - 2008

Labor Day:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Labor Day - Supper's on the Table, Everybody Come In - 2001 Rounder Records
RUTH & MAX BLOOMQUIST - Same Old Grind - Turn Back A Page - 2010 Ruby Records
JENI & BILLY - Jewell Ridge Coal - Jewell Ridge Coal - 2008 Jewell Ridge Records
ZOE MULFORD - When the Coffee's All Gone - Coyote Wings - 2013
MOLASSES CREEK - The Waterman - Something Worth Having - 2014
JOE JENCKS - Song of the Rails - Rise As One - 2005 Turtle Bear Music
BEV GRANT - I Can't Stand My Job - In Tune - 1995 Bev Grant/MAH Records

Immigrants and Labor:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Nothing Like You - 22 Days - 2013 Appalsongs
TOM JURAVICH - Immigrants Like Me - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002

ANNE FEENEY - We Do the Work - Union Maid - 2003

Monday, August 25, 2014

Playlist for 8/20/14

Police brutality/murder:
TRIANGLE RAGING GRANNIES (NC) - Song for Michael Brown - Single - 2014
VINCENT CROSS - Michael Brown - Single 2014
CHRIS SEYMOUR - Wall Street Crime - Single 2013
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - Single - 2013

Racism:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Jena - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit - Single Bullet Theory - 2003 WIRL Records
BOB DYLAN - The Death of Emmett Till - The Whitmark Demos: 1962-1964 - 2010 Sony Music
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records
COLLEEN KATTAU - Amen to the Freedom Ride - Single - 2014

Sacco & Vanzetti - RIP:
DAVID ROVICS - Sacco and Vanzetti - Single - 2008
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Dead Man Walking - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs
TOM PACHECO - Texecution - Luminol - 2012
THE QUIET AMERICAN - Gallows Pole - Wild Bill Jones - 2013
BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY - The Ballad of Tim Evans - Pressed for Time - 2013
ANNE HILLS - Iron Lady - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

War:
STORYHILL - Better Angels - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records
TONY DENIKOS - Glimmer - Under the Church - 2012
BOB BRADSHAW - Remember Me - Home - 2013
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - The Last to Die - Siberia - 2012
JIM PAGE - Collateral Damage - Collateral Damage - 2002
DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011 by Werth & Guy Capecelatro III

What's Wrong?:
TONY DENIKOS - Auction Block - Already Gone - 2009
JOHN & SHEILA LUDGATE - Trickle Down - Suburban Tales/Suburban Folk - 2009
SONIA RUTSTEIN - No Bomb Is Smart - No Bomb Is Smart -2004
CRAIG WERTH - E-Z Cash - Ten Miles Out - 2011

JOHN & SHEILA LUDGATE - Let's Just Say - Northern Soul - 2013

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Playlist for 8/13/14

THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - A Silly Little Song - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Palestine:
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - No Home in Zion - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
DAVE LIPPMAN - More Dead and Gaza Moans - Single - 2014

Corporate Personhood:
DAVID ROVICS - Corporations Are People Too - Everything Can Change - 2013
TOM NEILSON - Corporations Are Human - Between the Rivers - 2011
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Citizens United - We the People - 2013
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Citizens United - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011
DAVE LIPPMAN - Citizens United - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010

Police Brutality/Murder:
JON FROMER - Another Black Man Gone - Gonna Take Us All - 2008
DAVID ROVICS - London Is Burning - Meanwhile In Afghanistan - 2013
PAMELA MEANS - Two Halves - Single Bullet Theory - 2003
KYREEM TABAR, SHELLZ, RELL & INTEL - Three Strikes - Mass Incarceration - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Dead - All the News That's Fit to Sing - 2014

Empire/Iraq again:

PAMELA MEANS - O.D. - Single Bullet Theory - 2003
TOM PAXTON - George W. Told the Nation - 2007 Pax Music
DAVID ROVICS - Operation Iraqi Liberation - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
DARRYL PURPOSE - The Stories We Tell - Next Time Around - 2012
DAVID ROVICS - Resistance - Return - 2003
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
JOHN PRINE - That's How Every Empire Falls - Fair and Square - 2008

Native Americans Today:
THE LORDS OF LIECHTENSTEIN - No Soul Left to Save - Girlz (with a "z") - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Song for Big Mountain - Live At Club Passim - 2000
JON BROOKS - Sgt. Tommy Prince - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007
THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw - 2007
BEN BEDFORD - The Ballad of Harlington Wood - What We Lost - 2012
ANNE WEISS - Cherokee - Where Folk Gets the Blues - 2012
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

JOHN FLYNN - Like Woody Done - Poor Man's Diamonds - 2014

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Playlist for 8/6/14

Nuclear Weapons:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
BOB DYLAN - A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall - The Whitmark Demos-196201964 - 2010 Sony Music
JOEL RAFAEL - Dance Around my Atom Fire - America Come Home - 2012 Inside Recordings
TOM NEILSON - Heroes of the Cold War - Biomess - 2010
TOM NEILSON - Hot Frogs on the Loose - Dancin' Shoes - 1997
TERRI ROBEN - We Can Risk Disarmament - The Path We Make - 2008

Hiroshima/Nagasaki:
DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003
GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004
JIM PAGE - Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways
SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003

Environment:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - The World's Gone Beautiful - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JACKIE MORRIS - Money to Burn - Money to Burn - 2008 Button Box
ANDREWCORBETT - Bright Blue Ball - Moments of Grace - 2014 ACMuse
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music
STILL ON THE HILL - What's Done Is Done - Once A River - 2014 Kelly & Donna Mulhollan

Economics - Wealth and Poverty:
MALVINA REYNOLDS - Dialectic - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JON BROOKS - The Crying of the Times - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
STEVE SUFFET - Low Rent District - Low Rent District - 2008
SI KAHN - The Gap ($8,825 An Hour) - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
TIM GRIMM - Rumblin' in the Land - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

Peace:
SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Earth - Simplicity - 2002 Appleseed Recordings
MINDY SIMMONS - Peace Throughout the Land - One World Our World - 2009
MAGPIE - Give Light - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
GATHERING TIME - Songs of Hope & Freedom - Songs of Hope & Freedom - 2008
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

JON BROOKS - God Pt. IV - Moth Nor Rust - 2009

Playlist for 7/30/14

For Palestine:
MASAKHABIBI - Palestine Song فلسطين أغنية - Single - 2010
JON BROOKS - Son of Hamas - Delicate Cages - 2011
DAVID ROVICS - The Death of Rachel Corrie - Waiting for the Fall - A Retrospective
BILL HOOD - Reaching Out to You - Single - 2012 gazaark.org
AMY CAROL WEBB - Oh, Abraham - Faith/Fortitude/Friends - 2004

Peace:
AMY CAROL WEBB - This Is Peace - Faith/Fortitude/Friends - 2004
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Perfect World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
MINDY SIMMONS - One World - One World Our World - 2009

Drug wars:
SUE YOUNG - Angelitos - Little Angels - Gliding - 2012 Mother Lotus Records
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Who's the Pusher Now? - Single - 2012
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Recipe for Cocaine - Single - 2009

Immigrants - Mexico & Central America:
CRABTREE & MILLS - Across the Borderline - Flight of Fancy - 2006 Free & Easy Music
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - A Prayer for Josselline - 2011 Single
SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013
JOE JENCKS - Deportee - Rise As One - 2005
CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - Miguel y Celestina - Atlantica - 2014 Small Batch Music

Economy:
JASON TYLER BURTON - A Garden Grows - Headwaters - 2014
SCOTT COOK - Broke, and So Far from Home - One More Time Around - 2013
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - We Built This City - Not Alone - 2012
DISAPPEAR FEAR - The Banker - Broken Film - 2013 Sonia Rutstein
DAVE LIPPMAN - Hamburger Hill - I Hate Wal-Mart - 1998

Food:
ROWDY HOUSE - Pink Slime Burgers & Gov Cheese - Single - 2012
GRANT PEEPLES - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Okra & Ecclesiastes - 2011
TOM NEILSON - 5 Tons an Acre - Biomess - 2010
DAN & FAITH - Vegan Comfort Food - Simple Grace - 2014