Playlist for 11/10/21

 

MARA LEVINE - Burning Tree (Elmer Beal, Jr.) Jewels and Harmony - 2013

Veterans Day:

DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Bind Me to Free - 2006

RICH EILBERT - Back from the War - Back from the War - 2009

PAUL SIMON - The Riverbank - Stranger to Stranger - 2016

JOHN PRINE - Sam Stone - The Best of John Prine - 1976 Atlantic Recording Corp.

War - WWI:

ERIC BOGLE - No Man's Land - Plain and Simple – 2020

NELL ROBINSON - The Forgotten Soldier Boy (Bert Layne) - The Rose of No-Man's Land – 2014

JON BROOKS - In Flanders Fields - (Words by John McRae) - Ours and the Shepherds - 2007

PAUL KAPLAN --I Can't Remember Wintertime - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Christmas in the Trenches - Water from Another Time - 1989 Rounder Records

Aging:

JANIS IAN - I'm Still Standing - Single - 2021

LUCY BILLINGS - What You Gonna Do? - Carry the Water - 2014

ANNE FEENEY - The Dutchman (Michael Smith) - Enchanted Way - 2010

LEONARD COHEN - Stages - Can't Forget - 2013 Sony Music

Death:

LISA BASTONI - Across the Great Divide - Single - 2021

SCOTT COOK - Go On, Ray - Moonlit Rambles - 2011

LOUISE MOSRIE - Land of the Living - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music

SI KAHN & the Looping Brothers - Gone, Gonna Rise Again - Aragon Mill/The Bluegrass Sessions - 2013 Strictly Country Records

Refugees/Immigrants:

ERIC BOGLE - Refugee - At This Stage (The Live Collection) - 2005

JESSE PALIDOFSKY - America The Beautiful - Our Better Angels - 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Immigrant - Supper's On the Table - 2005 Appalsongs

ANI DiFRANCO - Deportee (Woody Guthrie) - Woody Guthrie at 100 - 2012 Legacy Recordings

BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth – 2013

Climate Change:

ERIC LAMBERT - Mother Earth - Beating the Odds - 2021

JESSE PALIDOFSKY - Respect Your Mother - Our Better Angels - 2021

NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time - 2021

HARPETH RISING - In the Singing - Against All Tides - 2017

Love:

JESSE PALIDOFSKY - Love Is the Strand - Our Better Angels - 2021

Playlist for 10/20/21

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Finally - Bucket List – 2020

Unions/Strikes:

JOE JENCKS- Which Side Are You On? (Florence Reese) - Rise As One – 2005

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Stand Together - RPM -2011 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

ANNE FEENEY - Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Ginny Hildebrand/Cappie Israel) - Union Maid - 2003

TOM JURAVICH - We Are Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

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

Immigrants/Refugees:

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

BETH DeSOMBRE - Take Me In - Resistance - 2017

LUCY KAPLANSKY/RICHARD SHINDELL/ DAR WILLIAMS - Cathedrals: Cry Cry Cry (Jump Little Children) - Single - 2018

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Dream - Rize Up - 2018

Iraq War:

TOM PAXTON - George W. Told the Nation - 2007

DAVID ROVICS - Operation Iraqi Liberation - Songs for Mahmud - 2004

AMY MARTIN - It's About Oil - Partake - 2005

ANNE FEENEY - Shell Game - If I Can't Dance - 2006

THEA HOPKINS - River of Fire - Chickasaw - 2007

Politics:

JUD CASWELL - The Great Divide - Single - 2020

RON ISRAEL - Tribal War - Tribal War - 2018

LULA WILES - Television- Shame and Sedition - 2021

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

MURRAY McLAUCHLAN - America - Hourglass - 2021

Climate Change:

NORMAN BLAKE - The Truth Will Stand (When This World's on Fire) - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

JOE TROOP - Horizon - Borrowed Time – 2021

CHRIS RONALD - Still Turning - Light & Dark - 2021

DAVID ROVICS - Famine, Flood and Fire - Ballad of A Wobbly – 2017

COLLEEN KATTAU - When's It Gonna Rain - Promo CD - 2015

Joe Jencks at Mt. Toby concerts:

BROTHER SUN - Lady of the Harbor (Joe Jencks) - Some Part of the Truth – 2013

JOE JENCKS - Let Me Sing You A Song - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers - 2017

Poverty:

AMBER CROSS - Storms of Scarcity - Savage on the Downhill - 2017

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

FINK*MARXER*GLEAVES - I'm Happy Every Day I Live (Rose Maddox/Alta Troxel) - Shout and Shine - 2018

 

Playlist for 10/27/2021

 

PADDY MILLS - It's Getting Cold - The Good Life - 2016

Racism:

RHIANNON GIDDENS/AMYTHYST KIAH/ALLISON RUSSELL- Moon Meets the Sun - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS and MAGPIE - Those Three Are on my Mind - Spoken in Love - 1995 Long Tail Records

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Fire in Ferguson - Revolution Now - 2017

ANI DiFRANCO - Take Down Your Flag - (Peter Mulvey) - 2015

ZOE MULFORD - The President Sang Amazing Grace - Small Brown Birds - 2017

Women:

DELLA MAE - Headlight - Headlight - 2020

BEV GRANT - Take A Walk in my Shoes - The Voices of Women Organizing Project - 2008

KARYN OLIVER - Edwina - A List of Names - 2019

ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017

SARA THOMSEN - Too Many Roosters- Song Like A Seed - 2020

War:

JIM SHARKEY - Sweet Anne's Road - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015

STORYHILL - Better Angels - Shade of the Trees - 2010 Red House Records

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Killing Game - Revolution Now - 2017

DAVID ROVICS - Jenin - Hang A Flag in the Window - 2002

DAVID FERRARD - Wild Flowers - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

Climate Change:

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

JOHN PRINE - The Lonesome Friends of Science - The Tree of Forgiveness - 2018 Cowboy Records

THE WHISPERING TREE - Garden- Invisible Forces – 2018

DAVID ROVICS - Text Messages of the Apocalypse - Single 2017

AARON NATHANS & MICHAEL G. RONSTADT - Old Waltzes and Skylights - Hang On for the Ride - 2017

Change:

SARA THOMSEN - Metamorphosis - Everything Changes - 2008

JOHN COSTER - The World Has Changed - The World Has Changed - 2002 Sakkara Records

CRYS MATTHEWS – Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers - Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers – 2017

HARPETH RISING - Day After Day - Tales from Jackson Bridge - 2013

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer) - TajMo - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:

JOE JENCKS - Rise As One - I Hear Your Voice - 2003

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO' - All Around the World (Kevin R Moore/Chic Street Man) - TajMo - 2017

SARA THOMSEN - Deep Peace - By Breath - 2003

Playlist for 10/13/21

 JENNIFER CUTTING'S OCEAN ORCHESTRA - Leaves of Autumn - Waves - 2017

Indigenous People's Day:

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE - Generation - Power in the Blood - 2015 Gypsy Boy Music

MARIA DUNN - When the Grandmothers Meet - Gathering - 2016

PAT HUMPHRIES - Indanee (Roland Mousaa/Tom Pacheco) - Hands - 2001 Appleseed Recordings

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

Refugees:

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

MICHAEL & NELL -  No Man's Land - Welcome Home - 2020

RAUL ZURITA – Desiertos 4 – Border Songs – 2012

DUO GUARDABARRANCO -  Cancion Pequena – Border Songs 2012

SAM BAKER - Migrants - Say Grace - 2013

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

Re-release of Si Kahn's Been A Long Time:

SI KAHN - Been A Long Time - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN – Just A Lie - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Brown Lung Blues - Been A Long Time – 2021

Interview with Si Kahn on his release of Been A Long Time

SI KAHN - Where the Song Never Ends - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Houses on the Hill - Been A Long Time - 2021

SI KAHN - Tarpaper Shacks - Been A Long Time - 2021

Ordinary Elephant at Mt. Toby Concerts, 10/16:

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - I Come From - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Jenny & James - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - If I Am Being Honest - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Before I Go - Before I Go - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT – Thank You - Before I Go - 2017

For the Spirit:

JOSEPH FIRECROW - Silent Warrior - Face the Music - 2009

DAVID ROTH & ANNE HILLS - I Stand for Love - Rhubarb Trees - 2011

Playlist for 10/6/21

 PAT LAMANNA - October - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Earth:

BEN BEDFORD -  PrairyErth- The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016

MARE WAKEFIELD & NOMAD - Closer to God - Time to Fly - 2018

SUSAN SHANN - Price on Heaven - Reckless Abandon - 2018

RICHEY BELLINGER  - Mountain Song - The Well Is For Water - 2018 Metolius River Studio

LIBBY RODERICK - If the World Were My Lover - How Could Anyone - 2005

Oil Spills:

DREW LANDRY - Oil Spill Song - 2010 youtube.com

STEVE FORBERT - The Oil Song - 2010 www.steveforbert.com

CRABTREE & MILLS - Pelican Bay - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

What's Wrong, America:

LARRY FOLK - Feeling Lost in America - Single - 2021

JACKSON BROWNE - The Long Way Around - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

TERRY KITCHEN - Sequel - The Post-American Century - 2015 Urban Campfire Prods.

LULA WILES - Good Old Amercan Values - What Will We Do - 2019 Smithsonian Folkways

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Real America - Real American - 2010

Capital Punishment:

THE QUIET AMERICAN - Wild Bill Jones - Wild Bill Jones – 2013

TOM PACHECO - Texecution - Luminol - 2012

ANNE HILLS - Iron Lady - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

GRANT PEEPLES - The Hanging - Pawnshop - 2000

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

Racism:

3 PENNY ACRE - Tulsa 1921 -Rag and Bone - 2013

DAVID ROVICS - Watch Out for the Cops - Meanwile in Afghanistan - 2013

J COLE - Be Free - Single - 2014

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest - 2019

Ordinary Elephant at Mt. Toby Concerts 10/16:

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Who I Am - Before I Go - 2017

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The War - Honest - 2019

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The Things He Saw - Before I Go - 2017

Playlist for 9/29

Autumn:

PADDY MILLS - It's Getting Cold - The Good Life - 2016

COVID-19:

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

DAVID ROVICS - Precipice - Notes Fom A Failed State - 2020

MARSH FAMILY - Have the New Jab (Marsh Family/Leonard Cohen) - Single 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - When All This Is Over- Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

What's Wrong/Economy:

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

SCOTT COOK - The Lord Giveth (and the landlord taketh away) - Moonlit Rambles – 2011

JOHN McCUTCHEON - It's the Economy, Stupid - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs

TIM GRIMM - Rumblin' in the Land (Tom Paxton) - Thank You Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records

CONNOR GARVEY - Hold Your Breath - Where Ocean Meets Land - 2011

Politics:

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

RON ISRAEL - System Down - Homeless in America - 2017

JAMES LEE STANLEY - Political Party - The Envoy - 1993

DAVE LIPPMAN - Moral Mondays - Food, Clothing & Glaciers - 2010

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

Abortion:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

PETE KRONOWITT - Body, Choice & Mind - A Lone Voice - 2016

ANI DiFRANCO - Play god - Binary - 2017

SARO-LYNCH THOMASON & SAM GLEAVES- Nobody's Body But Mine (Si Kahn) - I Have Known Women - 2020 Strictly Country Records

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Am A Woman - Revolution Now – 2017

Labor/Inequality:

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

BYRD & STREET - Workin' Man - This Much Is True - 2017

TERRY KITCHEN - Ninety-nine - That's How It Used to Be - 2004 Urban Campfire

WINDBORNE- Song of the Lower Classes (Ernest Jones/Ian Robb) - Song on the Times - 2017

ARTHUR DAVENPORT - The Rich Man Always Gets His Pay - Jonathan Leviathan – 2020

Dance:

JOHNSMITH - Old Flag Floor - Ginkgo - 2018

DENNIS CARAHER - Snapdragons - Radio Boy - 2006

ANDY & JUDY - Dancing in the Breeze - This Old Town - 2017

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

LIBBY RODERICK - Dancing in Front of the Guns - How Could Anyone - 2005

Playlist for 9/22/21

 JIM SHARKEY - September - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015

Hurricanes:

PATRICK SYLVEST - The Ballad of Hurricane Isaac - Lonesome Troubadour - 2014

CROWES PASTURE - The Storm - Edge of America – 2017

FRICTION FARM - Louisiana (Rise Up Like the Water) - Believe - 2004 Quinn & Stay

PAT WICTOR - Make Levees Not War - Mission Street Project/Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music

RUSTIC RIDERS - The Storm Is Coming - Wake Up! - 2015

Climate Change:

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - When I Was Your Age - Parts & Labor - 2014

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

TERRY KITCHEN - Nature's Way - The Quiet Places – 2017

NORMAN BLAKE - How the Weary World Wears Away - Brushwood Songs & Stories - 2017

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

Capital Punishment:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Dead Man Walking - Mightier Than the Sword - 2005 Appalsongs

DAVID ROVICS - The Ghost of Ethel Rosenberg - Punk Baroque – 2017

CHARLIE KING - Two Good Arms - Two Good Arms - 1992 Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds

MILLPOND MOON - Lena Baker - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015

PAT WICTOR - The Trial (Phil Ochs) – This Is Absolutely Real: Visions & Versions of Phil Ochs – 2017

Pinochet military coup/Chile:

DAVID ROVICS - Santiago - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

HOLLY NEAR- Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida - And Still We Sing: The Outspoken Collection - 2002 Calico Tracks Music

OLD-TIME PHARMACEUTICALS - Joan and Victor Jara - Roots & Honey - 2020

ARLO GUTHRIE - Victor Jara (Adrian Mitchell/Arlo Guthrie) - Amigo - 2008

RESISTANCE REVIVAL CHORUS with RHIANNON GIDDENS - All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Woody Guthrie) - Single - 2020

Occupy Wall Street:

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

DAVID ROVICS- Stay Right Here - Single - 2011

MAKANA - We Are the Many - Ripe - 2013

Peace:

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

SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage -  2010 Strictly Country Records

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

SAM BAKER - Go In Peace - Say Grace - 2013