Playlist for 7/7/21

Politics: 

ROD MacDONALD – Ray & Ron - A Tale of Two Americas - 2011

ROD MacDONALD - A Tale of Two Americas - A Tale of Two Americas - 2011

THE NIELDS et al - America the Beautiful - Single - 2020

Chris Smither, Dar Williams, Vance Gilbert, Peter Mulvey, Kalliope Jones, and Ben Demerath

MURRAY McLAUCHLAN - America - Hourglass - 2021

LOIS MORTON - Bipartisan - Loving America - Thinking It Through - 2019

Outlaws:

MICHAEL J. MILES - Vincent Black Lightening (Richard Thompson) - New Century Suite - 2021

DAVID GRISMAN et al - Pancho & Lefty (Townes Van Zandt) - Old & in the Gray – 2002

SIS CUNNINGHAM/MIKE MILLIUS/WES HOUSTON - Jesse James - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways

WOODY GUTHRIE - Billy the Kid - Classic American Ballads - 2015 Smithsonian Folkways

JOHN COSTER - Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) - Lost Horizon - 2013

Home:

FOREST SUN - Take Me Home - Single - 2021

DAVID FERRARD  - Calling My Children Home - Across the Troubled Wave - 2009

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Home – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

TIM GRIMM - Finding Home - A Stranger in This Time - 2017

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - My Stone Mountain Home -  Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Refugees:

DIANA JONES - Song to A Refugee- Song to A Refugee - 2021

DIANA JONES with Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger, Zara Phillips - We Believe You- Song to A Refugee - 2021

KORA FEDER - Child on the Move - In Sevens - 2019

BETT PADGETT - Don't Take My Child from Me - Single - 2018

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

Gun Control:

CHRISTINE LAVIN - More Than One Million Americans - Happydance Of The Xenophobe - 2007 Yellow Tail Records

DAVID ROVICS - Angry White American Man - The Other Side - 2015

SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart - 2004

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

CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me -1997

Hope:

MICHAEL FRANTI - Hey World (Don't Give Up) - All Rebel Rockers - 2008

PAUL KAPLAN with the Leverett Chorus - After the Fire - Paul Kaplan -  2002

TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1 - 2012

Summer:

ALICE HOWE - Tiger Lily - Tiger Lily EP - 2014

Playlist for 6/30/21

4th of July: 

JOSH JOFFEN - Liberty's Song - Postcard from Antigua - 2010

DAN  & CLAUDIA ZANES - Reparations Is A Must - Let Love Be Your Guide - 2021

BLUE O'CONNELL - American Song - Single -1990

MICHAEL VEITCH - Happy Fourth of July - Wake up Call - 2017

GRANT PEEPLES - The 4th Of July Parade Song - Indiscretion - 2014

 LGBTQ Pride Month:

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

CARRIE FERGUSON - Girls Like Me - Riding on the Back of the Wind - 2009

SAM GLEAVES - Two Virginia Boys - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Everything Possible (Fred Small) – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

PAT HUMPHRIES - People Love - Hands - 2001 Appleseed

Refugees:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Refugee - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - If I Give Your Name - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

DIANA JONES with Peggy Seeger, Steve Earle & Richard Thompson - El Chapparal - Song to A Refugee - 2021

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

THE RESONANT ROGUES - Can't Come In - Hands in the Dirt - 2017

Earth's Extinction:

JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time - 2021

TOM NEILSON -  Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Winter - 2013

BEV GRANT - Mother's Wrath - It's Personal – 2017

Politics:

LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021

COLLEEN KATTAU - This Wall - In My Name - 2012

CHRIS PIERCE - American Silence - American Silence - 2021

CHUCK BRODSKY - Them and Us - Them and Us - 2018

CRAIG WERTH - My Way or the Highway - The Spokes Man - 2010

Songs for the Spirit:

JOE TROOP - Heaven on Earth - Borrowed Time - 2021

PATRICK SYLVEST - Collard Greens - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014

ERIKA KULNYS - Keep Your Feet Moving - 2016

Playlist for 6/23/21

 Summer solstice:

THE STEEL WHEELS - Until the Summer Comes - No More Rain - 2013

MARA LEVINE - Summertime (George & Ira Gershwin, Heyward DuBose) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

Coal mining dangers:

TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Widow of the Mountain - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records

TOM NEILSON - Solstice Morning - Biomess – 2010

JOHN McCUTCHEON et al  - Black Waters (Jean Ritchie) - Dear Jean - 2014 Jean Ritchie CD Project Trust

BUDDY MONDLOCK - A Canary's Song (Garth Brooks/Buddy Mondlock) - The Memory Wall - 2013

HAZEL DICKENS - Coal Tattoo - A Few Old Memories - 1984

 Coal miners strikes:

SI KAHN - Brookside Strike - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Come All You Coal Miners - Echo in the Valley - 2017

JIM SHARKEY - Mother Jones - A Lovely Day - 2019

ARLO GUTHRIE with the Dillards - Ludlow Massacre (Woody Guthrie) - Thirty-two Cents - 2008 Rising Son Records

LOUISE MOSRIE - Battle of Blair Mountain (Louise Mosrie/Mike Richardson) - Home - 2010 Zoe Cat Music

Climate change:

ALLISON LUPTON & CRAIG WERTH - When Trouble Comes - Single - 2020

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

JIM PAGE - Down to Zero - Single - 2020

STEVE & KRISTI NEBEL - California - Windows - 2019 Icebird Records

THE MASTERSONS - No Time for Love Songs -  No Time for Love Songs- 2021

Homelessness/Poverty:

MIKE WARD - No Way to Live - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

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

RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

DAVID ROVICS - A Dream Foreclosed - Everything Can Change - 2013

Injustice:

JOE JENCKS - The Lady Juliana (Kat Eggleston) - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

CHARLIE KING - Shoes - So Far…So Good - 2013 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

MARIA DUNN - Do You Know Slim Evans? - We Were Good People - 2004

DERVISH - The Fields of Athenry (Pete St. John) - The Great Irish Songbook - 2019 Rounder Records

CHRIS PIERCE - Sound All the Bells- American Silence - 2021

Playlist for 6/16/21

 EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Clearwater Tune - Single - 2021

Whistle Blowers:

DAVID ROVICS - Reality Winner -  Strangers & Friends - 2020

SON VOLT - Reality Winner -  Union - 2019

TOM NEILSON - It's A Crime - It's A Crime to Tell the Truth - 2013

What's Wrong:

ERIC LONDON - World of Thieves - American Troubadour - 2020

GEOFF BARTLEY - Everything's for Sale - Mercy for the Dispossessed - 2012

LULA WILES - Shaking As It Turns - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

NORMAN BLAKE - There's A Storm Somewhere - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

KRAY VAN KIRK - O My Fathers - The Midnight Commander – 2020

What's Right:

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

COLLEEN KATTAU - Come with Me, Climb - The Living Years - 2013

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - Brother, You Ought to Been There - Shout and Shine - 2018

JOE JENCKS with Edie Carey - Let It Rain - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

ANNIE PATTERSON - O Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seeger) - Mountain Side - 2011

Environment-Clean Air Day 6/17:

RON FETNER - Man on the Moon - In the Out Door - 2021

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Solar Carol ((Austin, Dorsey, King, Taylor) - Simplicity - 2002

MAGPIE - Power of the Wind - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records

ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Tree of Life - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005

MALVINA REYNOLDS - The World's Gone Beautiful - Ear to the Ground - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Juneteenth:

HUDSON VALLEY SALLY - Get Off the Track  (Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.) - Activist Music Old and New- 2012

ALLISON RUSSELL/RHIANNON GIDDENS/LEYLA McCALLA - Quasheba, Quasheba - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

TOM NEILSON - A Tramp's Thoughts (Jane Keep/Ethan Miller) - Fools No More - 2006

CRABTREE & MILLS - The Price of Freedom - Freedom - 2008 Free & Easy Music

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Get On Board! - 2007 Appleseed Recordings

JOE JENCKS - I Have Seen Freedom Being Born (Si Kahn) - The Forgotten (Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn) - 2018 Turtle Bear Music

Dancing:

DENNIS CARAHER - Snapdragons - Radio Boy - 2006

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER – Dancin' in the Kitchen – Dancin' in the Kitchen – 2015 Community Music, Inc

Playlist for 6/9/21

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

Environment – 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

En-joy:

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 6/2/21

 TIM GRIMM - My Favorite Spring (Tom Paxton) - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

Memorial Day:

CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011

SALLY SPRING - Boys in the Cornfield - Made of Stars - 2010 Sniffinpup Records

RUSTIC RIDERS - We Remember - Hearing Hearts - 2008

SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World – 2007

DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

Freedom:

RHIANNON GIDDENS - Freedom Highway - Single - 2017

LULA WILES - In Dreams - Shame and Sedition - 2021

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Wings Like An Eagle ( Ola Belle Reed) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

BOB DYLAN - Chimes of Freedom - The Best of the Original Mono Recordings - 2010 Sony Music

SANDERS, KASS & WHITE - We Are Going (Woyaya) (T. Osei et al) - Feels Like Home - 1991

Aging/Women:

PEGGY SEEGER - The Invisible Woman - First Farewell - 2021

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Earned This Gray - Revolution Now - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Hope to Be That Happy - Honest - 2019

JULIE SNOW - Laugh or Cry - No Ordinary Love - 2016

MEGHAN CARY - Sing Louder - Sing Louder - 2017

What's Wrong:

THE ACCIDENTALS - Anyway (Sav Buist/Katie Larson/Tom Paxton) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021

GINA FORSYTH - Promised Land - Promised Land - 2012 Waterbug

KORA FEDER - Still We Write - In Sevens - 2019 

DON CARON - Battle Hymn of the Republic - Modified for Relevance - Single - 2018 The Parody Project

Fracking:

PEGGY SEEGER - Lubrication - First Farewell - 2021

ROY ZIMMERMAN - The Faucet's on Fire! - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

WOOL&GRANT - Get the Frack Outta Here (Bev Grant/Daniel A. Weiss) - Wool&Grant - 2013 Ina May Wool and Bev Grant

THE BURNS SISTERS - Gas Man - The Hills of Ithaca - 2012 Sisters Music

MAGPIE - Water in the Rock - Demo - 2011

Hope:

THE ACCIDENTALS - All Shall Be Well (Mary Gauther/Jaimee Harris/Sav Buist/Katie Larson) - Time Out:: Session 1 - 2021

Matisyahu - One Day - Single - 2009

Playlist for 5/19/21

 

Spring:

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER - Redwinged Blackbird (David Francey) - Get Up and Do Right - 2017

Palestine:

DAVID ROVICS - Watch the Buildings Crumble - Single - 2021

SHARON KLEIN - Borders of Stone - The Way Back Home - 2009

DARRYL PURPOSE - Song for Rachel Corrie - Next Time Around - 2012 Blue Rock Artists

DAVE LIPPMAN - Human Rights Man -  Boycott & Divestment Songs, Vol. 1 - 2015

DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013

 What's wrong

TOM PRASADA-RAO - What's Going On (Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland) - Single 2021

RON ISRAEL - Living in a Strange World - Tribal War - 2018

KATE CAMPBELL - Damn Sure Blue (Kate Campbell/Tom Kimmel) - Damn Sure Blue - 2018

THE WHISPERING TREE - Fat Cat - Invisible Forces - 2018

AMY MARTIN - Hey Happy - Unbroken - 2001

Gun Control:

THE ADVOCATE COLLECTIVE - If It Were Up to Me (Cheryl Wheeler) - Single 2021

GORDONVILLE, U.S.A. - Too Late to Say Too Soon - Single - 2021

MARK STEPAKOFF - Making Guns - Any Port in a Storm – 2017

SONIA RUTSTEIN - Rio's Home - No Bomb Is Smart – 2004

ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records

Poverty:

FINEST KIND - Song of the Lower Classes - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music

GEOFF BARTLEY - Money Is King - Put the Big Stone Down - 2009

GILLIAN WELCH - Annabelle - Boots No. 1 - 2016 Acony

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

Environmental destruction:

SI KAHN - Upstream - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

DAVID ROTH - When the Universe Is Ready - Single - 2020

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

PAT WICTOR - Well Well Well (Danny O'Keefe/Bob Dylan) - 2008

JANE ROSS FALLON - Sweet Amazon -  Songs on Purpose - 2016

Songs for the Spirit:

SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG - In the End - Undertaker's Songbook - 2021

SCOTT COOK - Tangle of Souls - Tangle of Souls - 2020

ANI DiFRANCO - Simultaneously - Revolutionary Love - 2021