Playlist for 6/11/14

NEW NOBILITY - Make a Better World - Sound Cloud 2014

Father's Day:
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Daddy's Little Girl - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
SI KAHN - Shoulders - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
TERRI ROBEN - The Perfect Truth - The Path We Make - 2008
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Daddy Did - Untold - 2009 Appalseed Prods.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Prodigal Father - Untold - 2009 Appalseed Prods.
DAVID ROVICS - He Called Me Dad - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013
DAVID FERRARD - My Father's House - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records
STEVE ALLAIN - My Father's Only Son - Thirteen - 2011
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Grow Up and Change the World - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Farming:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Farmer Is the Woman - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder
BETHEL STEELE - The Farm - Of Love & Whiskey - 2012
ROWDY HOUSE - Family Farm - rowdyhousemusic.com - 2012
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Corporate Farm - Not Alone - 2013 Vigitant Records
TOM CHAPIN - Farmer's Market Good - Give Peas a Chance - 2011 Sundance Music
TOM CHAPIN - Locally Grown - Give Peas a Chance - 2011 Sundance Music

Unions:
JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Young Ones Don't Remember - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002
ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Union Maid - 2003
SI KAHN - Momma Was A Union Woman - We're Still Here - 2004 Strictly Country Music
ANNE FEENEY - Union Main - Union Maid - 2003
TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music
TOM JURAVICH - We Are Union - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

Media:
DAVE LIPPMAN - The Times They Aren’t A-Changin’ - Single - 2014
JAY MANKITA - They Lied - Dogs Are Watching Us - 2004
TOM NEILSON - That Was the Week - Spirit of Justice - 2003
DAVID ROVICS - What If You Knew - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

Songs for the Spirit:
NEAL & LEANDRA - One - A Hundred Years from Now - 2012 Uncle Gus Music
GREG ENGLE - A Simple Prayer - Take It Personally - 2009 Ambo Records

Playlist for 6/4/14

MAGPIE - Too Political - Raise Your Voice - 2004 Sliced Bread Records

For those massacred in Tianamen Square 6/4/1989:
DAVID ROVICS - Glory and Fame - We Just Want the World - 1998
LAURA LOVE - June 4th Foundation - Octoroon - 1997 Mercury Records
MAGPIE - Kent - Give Light - 1999 Sliced Bread Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Silence & Lies - Roots, Rock & Revolution - 2006 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Ludlow Massacre - This Land: Woody Guthries's America - 2011
PADDY MILLS - Bay View Massacre - Race to the Bottom - 2011

Pro-choice (George Tiller shot 5/31/09 for performing abortions):
DAVID ROVICS - In the Name of God - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2013
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Hey, Mr. Politician - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

Religion:
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Hands on You - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
DAVID ROVICS - Who Would Jesus Bomb - Songs for Mahmud - 2004
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Creation Science 101 - Faulty Intelligence - 2004
LOU DOMINGUEZ - Hey Jesus - We the People - 2013
BEAUCOUP BLUE - I Surrender - Hearts at Home - 2005
HOLLY NEAR with EMMA'S REVOLUTION - I Ain't Afraid - Edge - 2000

Homeless:
DAVID ROVICS - A Dream Forclosed - Single - 2013
FREEBO - When There's No Place Like Home - Something to Believe - 2011 Poppabo Music
THE HARD ROAD TRIO- Crack in the Sky - Monticello - 2012
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Streets of Gold - Not Alone - 2013
JACK WILLIAMS - Sleeping in the Streets - Four Good Days - 2014 Wind River Records
JOHN McCUTCHEON - Room Here for Another - What It's Like - 1990 Rounder Records

Hard Times in the City:
CHRISTOPHER MARK JONES - Big Mac - Atlantica - 2014 Small Batch Music
CRAIG WERTH - E-Z Cash - 2011
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - The Favor - 2012

Racism:
BEN BEDFORD - Land of the Shadows - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
RANCHERS FOR PEACE - Walking Around Black - 2013
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - White Lies - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005 Riot Folk
TERRY KITCHEN & MARA LEVINE - One by One - 2012

Playlist for 5/28/14

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Memorial Day Songs:
JAY PSAROS - The Orphan - Single - 2013
RUTH HILL - Jessica - The River Beneath Me - 2011 Sugar Brook Music
CRAIG WERTH - Canvas of War - Ten Miles Out - 2011
JOHN FLYNN - Semper Fi - Departures - 2009
SALLY SPRING - Boys in the Cornfield - Made of Stars - 2010 Sniffinpup Records
FINEST KIND - The Riley Boys - For Honor & For Gain - 2010 Fallen Angel Music

Gun Control:
SARA THOMSEN - The Good News - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
ROY ZIMMERMAN - To the Victims of this Tragedy We Send our Thoughts and Prayers - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011 Metaphor Records
STEVE WARNER/ROLLING COYOTES - Culture of Violence - Carry On - 2007 Talking Horse Music
LEON ROSSELSON - Child Killers - Harry's Gone Fishing - 2000 Gadfly
MATT BORRELLO - Open Fire - Don't Turn Around - 2010
VOICES - I Need a Gun - Step By Step - 1996
TOM PAXTON - What If, No Matter... - Single - 2013

Women/Abuse:
SHARON KLEIN - Noura - The Way Back Home - 2009
BETH DeSOBRE - How I Got to Jackson - Crooked Highways - 2007
HEATHER PIERSON - I'll Never Know Freedom Again - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings
GENE MORRISON - Haunted Woman - Looking Back - 2010 Listen Here Records
SARAH PIRTLE - A Million Flowers - Everyday Bravery - 2006 Discovery Center Music

Palestine:
DAVID ROVICS - Song for the Mavi Marmara - Big Red Sessions - 2011
DAVE LIPPMAN - Human Rights Man - Single 2014
DAVE LIPPMAN - This Boycott Was Made for You and Me - Single 2014
ROB HEATH - What If They're Right? - Music to Life - 2006 Public Domain Fndn.
DAVID ROVICS - Israeli Geography - Meanwhile in Afghanistan - 2013
DAVID ROVICS - Children of Jerusalem - Living in these Times - 2001

Hope:
ERIN THOMAS - Beautiful - You Don't Know Me - 2012
TRACY SPRING - Work & Hope - Songs of Hope and Humanity, Vol. 1 - 2012

Playlist for 5/21/14

Memorial Day:
SARA THOMSEN - Is It for Freedom? - Somewhere to Begin - 2014
LAURA ZUCKER - Memorial Day - A Step Ahead
BOB BRADSHAW - Remember Me - Home - 2013 Fluke Records
MARE WAKEFIELD - About the War - Meant to Be - 2011 Maresie Music
NATHAN BELL - Names - Blood Like a River - 2014
HANANEL - Hero - Maiden Voyage - Gaterbone Records
SAM BAKER - Boxes - Pretty World - 2007
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Come Home - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
DAVID ROVICS - Four Blank Slates - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
TOM PAXTON - The Unknown - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
RUSTIC RIDERS - We Remember - Hearing Hearts - 2007
EMILY NYMAN - Give Me A Dream - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann

Casualties of War:
RODNEY BROWN - Casualty of War - Until You Come Home - 2009 George Mann
BEN BEDFORD - Fisher's Hill - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
DAVID ROVICS - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective
JIM PAGE - Collateral Damage - Collateral Damage - 2002
STEVE SUFFET - The Blind Veteran -  Low Rent District - 2008
DAVID FERRARD - Hills of Virginia - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard
AMY MARTIN - Home Uninjured - Not in Our Name - 2007 David Ferrard

Satires:
COUNTRY JOE McDONALD - Fixin' to Die Rag - Live at Woodstock - 1969
RISE AGAINST - Hero of War - Appeal to Reason - 2008

War Resistance:
JON BROOKS - War Resister - Moth Nor Rust - 2009
BEN BEDFORD - Twenty One - Land of the Shadows - 2009 Hopeful Sky Records
HEALY & JURAVICH - Cold Mountain - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
ARLO GUTHRIE - I Ain't Marching Anymore - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

Peace:
HEALY & JURAVICH - Song for Peace - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music
SI KAHN - Peace Will Rise - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records
EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Peace, Salaam, Shalom - One - 2004 Pat Humphries & Sandy O.

Playlist for 5/14/14

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Surveillance:
PETER CHIYKOWSKI - Hello NSA (A Love Song of Mass Surveillance) - Single - 2014
ROY ZIMMERMAN - Hello, NSA - Faulty Intelligence - 2006 Watunes
REMY - Tap It: The NSA Slow Jam - Single - 2013
LINQ - George Orwell Where Are You? - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs
DAVID ROVICS - Prism - Into A Prism - 2013

Women/Abuse:
COLLEEN KATTAU - We Will Take It Back - Inhabited Woman - 2007 Windlight Studio
JON BROOKS - The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez - Delicate Cages - 2011
PAMELA MEANS - Pollock in Pink - Precedent - 2009
PETER ALSOP - When the Women Say No - Disciples of Perfection - 2010 Moose School Prods.

LGBTQ:
LINQ - Diversity Dance - Life Goes On - 2009 Linq Songs
SARA THOMSEN - Forbidden Love - Everything Changes - 2008
ROY ZIMMERMAN - I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible - You're Getting Sleepy - 2011
SI KAHN - Curtains of Old Joe's House - In My Heart - 1994 Rounder Records
ARJUNA GREIST - Normal Is - Odd Numbers - 2003
LES SAMPOU - Flesh and Blood - Fall from Grace - 1996

Precious Water:
STILL ON THE HILL - When I Go to Water - Once A River - 2014 Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
STILL ON THE HILL - What's Done Is Done - Once A River - 2014 Kelly & Donna Mulhollan
SARAH PIRTLE - U-wi-ta (Coming Together) - 2014 youtube.com
SARAH UNDERHILL & IAN WORPOLE - Hole in the Ground - Chimaera - 2004
CRABTREE & MILLS - Waterfalls - Rise Above - 2011 Free & Easy Music

Palestine:
DAVID ROVICS - The Key - Return - 2003
JIM PAGE - Palestine - Collateral Damage - 2002
DAVID ROVICS - Death of Rachel Corrie - Waiting for the Fall - A Retrospective
THREE LITTLE BIRDS - Apartheid - 2012 youtube.com
DAVE LIPPMAN - Gaza's Ark - 2012 gazaark.org
JON BROOKS - Son of Hamas - Delicate Cage - 2011

Cracks of Perfection:
PETER ALSOP - Disciples of Perfection - Disciples of Perfection - 2010 Moose School Prods.
SARA THOMSEN - Anthem - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Playlist for 5/7/14

Spring Songs:
LYNN HOLLYFIELD - Spring- In the Balance - 2014
TIM GRIMM - My Favorite Spring - Thank you Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records
DAVID ROVICS - The More Gardens Song - Waiting for the Fall/A Retrospective

May Day/International Workers Day:
ANNE FEENEY - The Internationale - Jail for Justice - 2000
JOE CROOKSTON - Tuesday Morning - Georgia I'm Here - 2014
BEV GRANT - Cotton Mill Girls - We Were There - 2002
ETHAN MILLER & KATE BOVERMAN - Simple Dirt - If All the Land Would Rise - 2005
MICHELLE DALZIEL - The Mine - Mission Street Project/Make Levees, Vol. 2 - 2008 Hudson Harding Music
LOW TIDE DRIFTERS - We Just Come to Work Here (We Don't Come to Die) - Music for the Rest of Us - 2014
SI KAHN - Custodian - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

Mother's Day:
LYNN HOLLYFIELD - Shadow - In the Balance - 2014
MARA LEVINE - The Sweetest Gift - Mara's Gems - 2008
JAMIE ANDERSON - Your Mama Scares Me - A Promise of Light - 2005 Tsunami Recordings
LISA MARTIN - Superwoman - Set Me on Fire - 2001 Red Lion Records
ANNE HILL - Mother - The Things I Notice Now - 2012 Appleseed
KELLEIGH McKENZIE - O Mother - Chances - 2008 Zatchubilly Music

Environmental Destruction:
MAGPIE - The Rainforest Song - Living Planet - 1989 Long Tail Records
GRANT PEEPLES - It's Later Than You Think - It's Later Than You Think - 2008
TIM GRIMM - Whose Garden Was This - Thank you Tom Paxton - 2012 Vault Records
SHARON ABREU - Change in the Climate - A New Bottom Line - 2014
TOM NEILSON - Where Greenland Used to Be - Where Greenland Used to Be - 2012

Songs about Pete & Woody:
KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - High Over the Hudson - Single 2014
PAT LAMANNA - Singer of Songs - Do I Know My Song Well Enough - 2012
PAUL KAPLAN - The Voice of Pete - The Folk Process - 2008 Old Coat Music
CAROLINE DOCTOROW - The Ballad Maker - - Single - 2013

THE QUIET AMERICAN - Worth A Million - Songs from a Rocking Chair - 2014

Playlist for 4/30/14

SARA THOMSEN - Somewhere to Begin - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

Hard Times:
JENNIFER EVANS - The Last Cheap Hotel - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
JENNIFER EVANS - There But for Fortune - The Last Cheap Hotel - 2014 Sweet Cody Boy Prods.
ELLEN BUKSTEL - Somebody's Child - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008
HEATHER PIERSON - The Hard Work of Living - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings
THE BIG CHEESE - Tired of Breakng My Back - Ramble in the Dairy Aisles: It's All Gouda - 2009
LOWELL LEVINGER - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Down to the Roots - 2014 Grandpa Raccoon Records

Farming:
WINTERGREEN - I Once Was a Farmer - Old Songs and New - 2005
TOM NEILSON - Four Lane Highways & Mobile Homes - Living on the Maximum Wage - 2003
MELODY WALKER & JACOB GROOPMAN - Come On Mule - We Made It Home - 2013

SHARON ABREU - Economology - A New Bottom Line - 2014 (Phone interview with Sharon)

Labor/Mills:
WINTERGREEN - Snow in Paradise - Old Songs and New - 2005
TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Chains - The Promise of Friday Night - 2012 Inside Edge Records
HEDY WEST with Pete Seeger on banjo - Cotton Mill Girls - Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest
BEV GRANT - Bread & Roses - We Were There! - 2002
DEB & DAVE COWAN - The Weaver & the Factory Maid - A Dram for the Singer - 1997
SI KAHN - Stitch and Sew - Threads - 2002 Double Time Music
SI KAHN - In the Spinning Mill - Threads - 2002 Double Time Music

Storms:
JUSTIN ROTH - Rise - Single 2013
ZOE MULFORD - Storm Damage - Coyote Wings - 2013
EVAN GREER - Ballad of Hurricane Katrina - Never Surrender - 2009 Riot Folk
GARY ALLEGRETTO - Four Days Late - Social Change Sampler - 2010 Alternate Root
DAVID ROVICS - New Orleans - Troubador/People's History in Song -2010

Songs for the Spirit:
WINTERGREEN - Hine Matov - Old Songs & New - 2005
DEB & DAVE COWAN - A Dram for the Singer - A Dram for the Singer - 1997
BEV GRANT - DeColores - We Were There! - 2002