Playlist for 9/2/20

Black live matter for Jacob Blake:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016

BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records

JOEL RAFAEL - Glory Bound - Rose Avenue - 2019 Inside Recordings

KIRK MANN - Twenty Dollar Bill (Tom Prasada-Rao)- Say Theri Names – 2020

EMILY BARKER - Machine - A Dark Murmuration of Words – 2020

Development/Displacement:

SCOTT COOK - Just Enough Empties - Tangle of Souls - 2020

PETER SIEGEL - The Local's Leaving Town - Living in Rome - 2008

JUD CASWELL - For Sale - Blackberry Time - 2007 Alderdown Music

DAN SCHATZ- The Kind Land (Gordon Bok) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records

JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018

America/Conscience:

SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020

RAYE ZARAGOZA - American Dream - Fight for You - 2017

THE MAMMALS - If You Could Hear Me Now - Nonet - 2020 Humble Abode Music

RACHAEL KILGOUR - In America - Game Changer - 2019 Newsong Recordings

KEB' MO' - America the Beautiful - Big Wide Grin - 2001  Sony Music

Values:

SCOTT COOK - Let Love Have Its Way - Tangle of Souls - 2020

AMY MARTIN - Rose of Sharon - Partake - 2005

ANDY & JUDY - Are  You Ready - This Road - 2020

Refugees:

ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN - No Safe Place - Shoot the Moon - 2017

DANA SIPOS - Night Sky - Roll Up the Night Sky - 2015

DAVID ROVICS - Upon Our Shores - Single - 2015

IKE REILLY - Bolt Cutter - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

THREE ALTOS - Would You Harbor Me (Ysaye Barnwell) - Comaradas - 2005 Sara Thomsen, Paula Pedersen, Amy Bernstein

Environmental destruction:

EMILY BARKER - Where Have the Sparrows Gone - A Dark Murmuration of Words - 2020

EMILY BARKER - Strange Weather - A Dark Murmuration of Words - 2020

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Won't Be Long – Ladies & Gentlemen - 2016

Playlist for 8/26/20

Covid-19: PAUL KAPLAN - Little Boxes - Single - 2020

DAVID ROVICS - Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree - 2020 Single

Women's Suffrage:

SCOTT COOK - Fellas, Get Out the Way - Further Down the Line - 2017

COLLEEN KATTAU - Dangerous Women - Single - 2019

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- I Have Known Women (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020 Strictly Country Records

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- 1920 (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020 Strictly Country Records

KEB' MO" .& Rosanne Cash - Put A Woman in Charge - Oklahoma - 2019 Concord Records

War:

MOLLY TUTTLE - Standing on the Moon (Grateful Dead) ...but I'd rather be with you - 2020

MICHAEL & NELL - Jerusalem (Steve Earle) - Welcome Home - 2020

MICHAEL & NELL – Day's Gonna Come (Jody Gallagher) - Welcome Home - 2020

JON BROOKS - Because We're Free - Delicate Cages - 2011

Labor/Job Loss:

MICHAEL & NELL - Boss Called A Meeting - Welcome Home - 2020

PADDY MILLS - Penobscot Bay - Race to the Bottom - 2014 Our Hometown Music

MARGHI ALLEN - Freedom Train - Little Pieces of My Heart - 2014

TOM JURAVICH - Altar of the Bottom Line - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

JOE JENCKS - I Will Shout Youngstown (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Homelessness:

CLAUDIA RUSSELL + BRUCE KAPLAN - Land of Plenty - Lovers Tree - 2018

DAVID ROVICS - Each Couch By The Street - Notes Fom A Failed State - 2020

FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011

THE HARD ROAD TRIO- Crack in the Sky - Monticello - 2012

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Caught Between the Times - Parts & Labor - 2014

Income Disparity:

CARLA ULBRICH - Take Me Out to the Overpriced Ballgame - The Loud Album (Sampler) - 2020

HEATHER PIERSON - Winter Tans - Make It Mine - 2010

LUCY BILLINGS - State of Blind - Carry the Water - 2014

RACHAEL KILGOUR - In America - Game Changer - 2019 Newsong Recordings

PHIL OCHS - There But for Fortune - Phil Ochs - In Concert - 1966 Elektra

Stand Up:

CARLA ULBRICH & LAUREN MAYER - Stand Up and Act - Single - 2020

HEATHER MAE - Stand Up - I Am Enough - 2016

RACHAEL SAGE - Tomorrow (Rachael Sage/James Mastro) - The Tide - 2017

CHARLIE KING - Spoon of Sand - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter – 2017

Playlist for 8/12/20

 

ARI & MIA - Turn Me Round - Land on Shore - 2013

Hiroshima/Nagasaki:

DAVID ROVICS - Hiroshima - Return - 2003

GRAHAM & BARBARA DEAN - I Come and Stand (Nazim Hikmet/James Waters) - Tom Paine's Blues - 2004

JIM PAGE - Hiroshima, Nagasaki Russian Roulette - Best of Broadside 1962-1988 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

SIMON & GARFUNKEL - The Sun Is Burning - Wednesday Morning, 3 AM - 1964 Columbia Records

MAKANA - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Single – 2020

Failed State:

DAVID ROVICS - Failed State - Strangers & Friends - 2020

LEONARD COHEN - Democracy - The Future - 1992 Sony Music

CHATHAM STREET - House of Fools - All That Mattered - 2011

CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW (Roy Zimmerman) - Intelligent Design - For the Record - 2020 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

ROY ZIMMERMAN - This Machine - Real American - 2010

Politics:

ZOE SPEAKS - There's A Hole Where Your Soul's Supposed to Be - Wings – 2018

ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Shady Bunch - Rize Up – 2018

SI KAHN and The Looping Brothers -Going Going Gone - It's A Dog's Life - 2019

DAVE GUNNING - Wish I Was Wrong - Up Against the Sky - 2019 Wee House of Music

CHE APALACHE - Rock of Ages - Rearrange My Heart - 2019 Free Dirt

Resist/Occupy:

MAKANA - We Are the Many - Ripe - 2013

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Occupy the USA - RPM - 2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

DAVID ROVICS- Stay Right Here - Single - 2011

MICHAEL HOWARD - Meet Me at the Front Lines - Gasoline Dream - 2016

CHARLIE KING - Our Demands (Rick Burkhardt) - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

Trump:

LESLIE ODOM Jr. - Seriously (Sara Bareilles) - 2016

TIM GRIMM - Woody's Landlord - Single - 2016

ROY ZIMMERMAN & MELANIE HARBY - I Got a Really Big Button - Single - 2018

WILLIE NELSON - Vote 'em Out - Single - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Bible - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:

HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Living Planet (Jay Mankita) - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Playlist for 7/29/20

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Still on the Bridge - We Are Welcomed - 2016 

THE BARBALOOTS - Captain Key - Possum Came to Town - 2020 

 Nuclear weapons: 

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Hercules and Einstein - Sorry State – 2020 

SARA THOMSEN - Keeping the Peace - By Breath - 2003 

HILLEL ARNOLD - Dance Around My Atom Fire (Woody Guthrie) - Open Your Hearts to the Paradise - 2009 Anne Price & Steve Suffet 

TERRI ROBEN - We Can Risk Disarmament - The Path We Make – 2008 

 MALVINA REYNOLDS - What Have They Done to the Rain? - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

 What's wrong/Failed State: 

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ELLIOTT - Sorry State - Sorry State - 2020 

IAN ROBB - They're Taking It Away - From Different Angels - 1994 

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017 

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Real America - Real American - 2010 

BRUCE T. CARROLL - Fox in the Henhouse - Finding You - 2018 

Inclusion – Racism: 

THE BARBALOOTS - Possum Came to Town - Possum Came to Town - 2020 

DENNIS WARNER - Carefully Taught - Pilot Me - 2020 

COSY SHERIDAN & CHARLIE KOCH - My Fence & My Neighbor - My Fence & My Neighbor - 2018 

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Welcome Table - Shout and Shine - 2018 

MARA LEVINE - A Perfect Rose (Terry Kitchen) - Facets of Folk – 2019 

Forests: 

THE BARBALOOTS - Sawdust John - Possum Came to Town - 2020 

JOHN McCUTCHEON - This Road - Ghost Light - 2018 

TIM GRIMM - Thirteen Years - A Stranger in This Time - 2017 

JIM PAGE - Butterfly Wings - Gettin Squeezed – 1999 

DENNIS WARNER - Love and Maple Syrup (Gordon Lightfoot) - Pilot Me - 2020 

LGBTQ: 

DENNIS WARNER - Michael - Pilot Me – 2020 

COLLEEN KATTAU - Winter Came Early - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio 

DAVID ROVICS - I Know A Man - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009 

SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes - 2008 

LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs 

Songs for the Spirit:

ROY ZIMMERMAN - I'm In - Single - 2012 

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Song of Joy (Ken Whiteley) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

SARA THOMSEN – May the Longtime Sun - By Breath - 2003

Playlist for 7/22/20

JOHN McCUTCHEON & TOM CHAPIN - Well May the World Go - Doing Our Job - 1997 Rounder Records

Generations:
JOHN McCUTCHEON & TOM CHAPIN - Northfield/Pass the Music On - Doing Our Job - 1997 Rounder Records
ELLIS DELANEY - I Think About You - Ordinary Love – 2020
TIM GRIMM - That Old Man - Heart Land Again - 2019
LINDA SUSSMAN - Pass It On Down - Pass It On Down – 2019
SCOTT COOK - Pass It Along - One More Time Around - 2013

The Disappeared:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Las Damas de Blanco - Passage - 2010 Appalseed Prods.
DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009
THE WEAVERS - Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida (Holly Near) - youtube.com

Loss of democracy:
LEONARD COHEN - The Future - The Future - 1992 Sony Music
JIM PAGE - Long Corner Turning - Collateral Damage - 2002
PAMELA MEANS - Amen - Single Bullet Theory - 2003
HOLLY NEAR - Coup d'Etat - 2018 - 2018 Calico Tracks Music

Gun control:
MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Gun Country - We the People - 2013
CHRISTINE LAVIN - Cary Grant, Esther Williams, Tom Cruise and the Romance of the Gun - Live at McCabe's - 2015
DAVID ROVICS - Angry White American Man - The Other Side - 2015
ORDINARY ELEPHANT - If I Am Being Honest - Honest - 2019

Environmental threats:
ELLIS DELANEY - Bird on a Wire - Ordinary Love - 2020
ZOE SPEAKS - The Earth Has Had Enough - Wings - 2018
JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Won't Be Long – Ladies & Gentlemen - 2016
BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal - 2017

What's Wrong:
SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew – Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017
RON ISRAEL - Tribal War - Tribal War - 2018
MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Promised Land - Bridging the Gap - 2010
LULA WILES - Shaking As It Turns - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways
CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - I Saw the Sea - Incantations - 2017

Work Together:
ELLIS DELANEY - Start Where You Are - Ordinary Love - 2020
THE STRAY BIRDS - Hands of Man - Magic Fire - 2016
KATHERINE RONDEAU - Let's Work Together - Unfortunate Point of View – 2019

Playlist for 7/15/20

COVID-19:
TRET FURE - Across the Room - Single - 2020
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Six Feet Away - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020
CROWE'S PASTURE - Quarantine - Single - 2020
TRET FURE - Far Too Fast - Single - 2020
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Vespers - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine – 2020

Conscience – Racism:
CROWE'S PASTURE - A Virtue and a Call - Single - 2020
JOE CROOKSTON - Brooklyn in July - Able Baker Charlie & Dog - 2008
ALICIA VIANI - Good Man - Alicia Viani - 2019
DANNY SCHMIDT - Black & Blue - Single - 2020
THE MAMMALS - If You Could Hear Me Now - Nonet - 2020 Humble Abode Music

Native American:
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
JOE CHIOVARI - Indian Twilight - Single 2009
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
PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco) - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

Fascism:
DAVID ROVICS - Corona Virus Climate Catastrophe Fascist Empire 2020 Blues Massacree - 2020 Single
CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - For the Record - 2020 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds
SI KAHN and The Looping Brothers - Government on Horseback - It's A Dog's Life - 2019
BARBARA DANE - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Hal Kemp) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Machine - Ghost Light - 2018

Justice:
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - So Impeachable (Emma's Revolution - Irving Gordon) - Single - 2019
STEVEN BLANE - Proclaim Liberty - The Shed Sessions - 2017
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Someday (We Shall Overcome) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015
JOHN McCUTCHEON - If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger/Lee Hays) - To Everyone in All the World/A Celebration of Pete Seeger - 2019 Appalseed Prods.
PLAYING FOR CHANGE - A Better Place - Single - 2020

Labor:
SCOTT COOK - Say Can You See - Tangle of Souls - 2020
BYRD & STREET - Workin' Man - This Much Is True - 2017

Playlist for 7/8/20

4th of July:
DAVID ROVICS - Born on the Fourth of July - Single - 2020
JACKSON BROWNE - I Am A Patriot - World in Motion - 1988
JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010

Slavery:
JOYCE DEE - Frederick Douglass - A Slave Man and Free (Kevin Kane) - Single - 2020
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - No More Auction Block - Steal Away - Songs of the Underground Railroad -1984 Appleseed Recordings
LOUISE MOSRIE - When Cotton Was King - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music
PATRICK SYLVEST - Ode to Rans McGaskey - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014
TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More - 2006

Black Lives Matter:
THE FOX RUN FIVE - $20 Bill (for George Floyd) (Tom Prasada-Rao) - Single - 2020
SUSAN PEPPER - George Floyd - Single - 2020
RAYE ZARAGOZA - The It Girl - Single - 2020
DAVID ROVICS - Elijah Played the Violin - Single - 2020
DAVE LIPPMAN - A People's History of White Supremacy - Single - 2020

Palestine:
DAVE LIPPMAN - Ciao Annexation - Single - 2020
DAVE LIPPMAN - This Food's Not Your Food - Single - 2014
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - Living in These Times – 2001
DAVID ROVICS - Song for the Mavi Marmara - Ten New Songs - 2010

Labor:
SUE JEFFERS - Essentially Expendable - Single - 2020
DAVE LIPPMAN - When We Stand Up for 15 - You Don't Own the World - 2016
DAVID ROVICS - Minimum Wage Strike - Live at Club Passim - 2000
JAN HAMMARLUND - Upside Down (Malvina Reynolds) - Uncovered Malvina Reynolds - 2015 Schroder Music
JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One - 2005

Conscience:
GRACE MORRISON - Mothers - Single - 2020
SAM GLEAVES - The Golden Rule - Ain't We Brothers - 2015
DAVE GUNNING - These Hands - No More Pennies - 2012
CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

Work Together:
RAVEIS KOLE - Help one Another (We All Can) - Single – 2020
GATHERING TIME - Get Together (Chet Powers) - Single - 2020