Playlist for 3/24/21

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

Massacres:

DAVID ROVICS - Puritan Slaughter - Single - 2021

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER - June 4, 1989 - The Age of Miracles - 2010

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

KATHY MOSER - Someone Like You - Someone Like You - 2007

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Forgive Us - This Fire - Politics, Love and Other Small Miracles - 2007 Appalsongs

For Julain Assange:

DAVID ROVICS - Behind These Prison Walls - Rebel Songs (Free the Imagination) - 2021

RYAN HARVEY -  To Keep You Silent - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

RACHAEL KILGOUR - Whistleblower - Whistleblower's Manifesto: Songs for a New Revolution - 2013

PETE KRONOWITT - Change Is Gonna Come - A Lone Voice - 2016

ROGER WATERS - Wish You Were Here - Live at Globo studios, Brazil - 2018

Labor disasters:

BEV GRANT - Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Ruth Rubin) - We Were There! - 2002

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

BATTLEFIELD BAND - The Blantyre Explosion - Beg & Borrow - 2015

PETE SEEGER - The Bells of Rhymney  (Idris Davies/PeteSeeger) - Live in '65 - 2009 Appleseed Recordings

PAT LAMANNA - Los Mineros de Chile - Do I Know My Song Well Enough to Start Singing Yet? - 2012

Unions:

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Young Ones Don't Remember - Gonna Rise Again - 1987 Rounder

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

SI KAHN/SUE MASSEK - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister (Jim Garland) - Precious Memories - 2015 Strictly Country Records

SHELBY BOTTOM DUO & Friends - I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night (Alfred Hayes/Earl Robinson) - Joe Hill Roadshow - 2016

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

Violence against women:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - You're Not Better Than Me - Daddy's Little Girl - 2008

HEATHER PIERSON - I'll Never Know Freedom Again - The Hard Work of Living - 2013 Sacred Vessel Recordings

ELAINE ROMANELLI - Real - The Hour Before - 2015

FACES OF EVE/Celeste & Rebecca - If I Had a Gun - Women Voices - 2008

LOUISE MOSRIE - Lay It Down - Lay It Down - 2014 Zoe Cat Music

Enjoy:

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

REBECCA FOLSOM - Sanctuary - Sanctuary - 2020

Playlist for 3/17/21

Spring: 

PADDY MILLS - When Spring Comes Around - 3 Lefts - 2011 Ormalnye Records

JOHN GORKA - Thirstier World - Bright Side of Down - 2014 Red House Records

Happy St. Patrick's Day:

ANNE FEENEY - Irish Jokes - Heartland - 1994 Super 88 Records

MARY COURTNEY - Crasna na oConnca (Crossing the Waves) - Sceil Eile (Another Story) - 2003

SI KAHN - Ireland of My Dreams - Courage - 2010 Strictly Country Records

SOLAS - Padraig Og  Mo Chroi - All These Years - 2016 THL Records

BATTLEFIELD BAND with Leo McCann – Reels: The Five Mil e Chase/The Cameronian Reel/The Black Haired Lass/Miss Girdie - Beg & Borrow – 2015

Scotland Resistance/Empire:

BOB WRIGHT - Mists of the Morn - Gingerbread Whiskerchin - 2020

BATTLEFIELD BAND - An Gille Mear (The Gallant Lad) - Beg & Borrow – 2015

ALISTAIR HULETT and JIMMY GREGORY - Among Proddy Dogs & Papes - Dance of the Underclass - 1991

ALAN REID - Covenanter - Under the Blue - 2002 Red Sands Records

HUGH MORRISON - Scotland Is Free - Scotland Is Free - 2014

Environmental destruction:

JOHN PRINE - Paradise - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

PATRICK SYLVEST -Those Lands - Sylvestrings - 2007

SI KAHN - Winter coming On - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

LORETTA HAGEN - This World of Ours - Lucky Stars - 2017

JOAN BAEZ - Another World (Anohni) - Whistle Down the Wind - 2018

Labor/Job loss:

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

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

MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS - That Old Machine - Grain by Grain - 2016

JUD CASWELL - Watch the Fall - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019

DAN SCHATZ- Eighty Acre Farm (Doug Becken) - The Promise of the Sowing - 2015 Folk-Legacy Records

Aging:

THE BLACK FEATHERS - Winter Moves In - Soaked to the Bone - 2016

AMERICAN OUTLAWS - Desperados Waiting for a Train (Guy Clark) - Nassau Coliseum concert – 1990

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

TIM GRIMM - She Remembers - Farm Songs - 2009

JOHN PRINE - Angel from Montgomery  - John Prine - 1971 Atlantic Records

Enjoy:

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Mister Rabbit - Sam Gleaves  & Tyler Hughes -  2017

JOE JENCKS with Reggie Harris - Best of Friends - Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers – 2017

Playlist for 3/3/21

 COVID-19:

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

MARSH FAMILY - I Know Them Too Well (Marsh Family/Benny Andersson, Tim Rice, and Björn Ulvaeus) - Single 2020

PAUL KAPLAN - These Are the Days - We Shall Stay Here - 2021

Women's History Month/Heroines:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Star Girls - We Are Welcomed - 2016

JOHN FLYNN - Malala - Poor Man's Diamonds - 2014

SARA THOMSEN - The Ballad of Molly Ivins - Somewhere to Begin - 2014

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Prudence Crandall - We Are Welcomed - 2016

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - Emma Goldman (Jolie Rickman) - Cheeky Woman - 2006

Racism:

CHRIS PIERCE -The Bridge of John - American Silence – 2021

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

PAUL KAPLAN - Survival - We Shall Stay Here – 2021

GRANT PEEPLES - Pitchforks and Torches - Settling Scores Vol. II - 2018

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

Politics:

CLAUDIA SCHMIDT & SALLY ROGERS - Willful Ignorance - We Are Welcomed - 2016

JANET BATES - Not in Kansas Anymore - The Little Spinner – 2009

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

TRET FURE - Monuments - Stone by Stone – 2020

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

Immigration:

TRET FURE - Welcome to America - Stone by Stone - 2020

MARIA DUNN - Lullaby - Piece By Piece - 2012

BEN BEDFORD -  The Voyage of John and Emma - The Pilot and the Flying Machine - 2016

BEV GRANT & The Dissident Daughters - In America - Cheeky Woman - 2006

DAVID ROTH - Home of the Brave (David Roth/Karen Drucker/JD Martin) - Last Day on This Earth - 2017 May the Light Music

Aging:

MIKE WARD - Content - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON - When This Old Hat Was New (Dana Robinson/Hank Mattson) - American Hornpipe - 2012 Threshold Music

Enjoy:

MARSH FAMILY - We're Not Singing Sea Shanties - Single 2021

Playlist for 2/24/21

CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER with Justin Hiltner - Hold Each Other Up - Single 2020

Unions for Amazon workers:

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

TOM JURAVICH - Power in A Union (Billy Bragg) - Altar of the Bottom Line - 2007 Finnegan Music

ANNIE PATTERSON & CHARLIE KING - Step By Step ( Pete Seeger/Waldemar Hille) - Step By Step - 2019 Vaguely Reminiscent Soungs

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

JOHN McCUTCHEON -Talking Union (Pete Seeger) - To Everyone in All the World/A Celebration of Pete Seeger - 2019 Appalseed Prods.

Whistle blowers for Julian Assange:

DAVID ROVICS - Song for Chelsea Manning - Big Red Sessions - 2011

DAVID NEAL - Bradley Manning - 2012 dissenter.firedoglake.com

RYAN HARVEY -  To Keep You Silent - Hugs for Chelsea - 2017

SCOTT COOK - Walk That Lonesome Valley - Further Down the Line - 2017

DAVID ROVICS - Who Will Tell the People - Living in these Times - 2001

Homelessness:

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

THE BIG CHEESE - Tired of Breaking My Back - Ramble in the Dairy Aisles: It's All Gouda - 2009

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

LEONARD COHEN - Never Gave Nobody Trouble - Can't Forget - 2015 Sony Music

PETER KEANE - Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) - Rural Electification - 2015

Walls:

TRET FURE – Monuments - Stone By Stone – 2020

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - Shadow of the Wall  - Revolution Now - 2017

SHARON GOLDMAN - Sunset at the Border - Every Trip Around the Sun - 2019

TRACY SPRING - Walls Come Tumblin Down - More Than Our Share – 2001

SAM GLEAVES & TYLER HUGHES - Tear Down the Fences - Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes - 2017

Depression/Hope:

MIKE WARD - In the Light - The Darkness and the Light - 2021

THE RESONANT ROGUES - Autumn of the World - Autumn of the World - 2019

LINQ - Tired - Rx and the Side Effects - 2009 Linq Music

ERIN THOMAS - No Position to Give - You Don't Know Me - 2012

Songs for the Spirit:

MILLPOND MOON - Forever Young (Bob Dylan) - Time to Turn the Tide - 2015

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

TRACY SPRING - Love Is A Round - Life and Art - 1995

Playlist for 2/17/21

 REGGIE HARRIS - It's Who We Are - On Solid Ground – 2021

Black History Month - Racism 1960's:

ROD ABERNETHY - Oxford Town (Bob Dylan) - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - 2021

NINA SIMONE - Mississippi Goddam - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

RICHARD FARINA - Birmingham Sunday - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 -  2000 Smithsonian Folkways

CHARLIE KING - Three Faces in a Row - Life & Love, Tears & Laughter - 2017

MAGPIE - Cry Carolina - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change

Civil Right's movement 1960's:

Phil Ochs - Freedom Riders - Best of Broadside 1962-1968 - 2000 Smithsonian Folkways

MARSHALL JONES - Legend of Danville - Songs of Dissent - 1998 Cultural Center for Social Change

BARBARA DANE - It Isn't Nice (Dane/Reynolds) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

KIM & REGGIE HARRIS - If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus (Words: Carver Neblett) - The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert - 1997 Cultural Center for Social Change

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

Conscience:

ROD ABERNETHY - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - Normal Isn't Normal Anymore - 2021

SAM GLEAVES - The Golden Rule - Ain't We Brothers - 2015

HEATHER PIERSON - Righteous Song - Singin' - 2017

ROBERT JONES & MATT WATROBA - Sowin' On The Mountain - Common Chords - 2019

ALICIA VIANI - Good Man - Alicia Viani - 2019

COVID-19:

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

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

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sheltered in Place - Cabin Fever: Songs for the Quarantine - 2020

CROWE'S PASTURE - Quarantine - Single - 2020

TIM GRIMM - Gone - The Single - 2020

Women & Labor:

BEV GRANT - We Were There - We Were There! - 2002

CURTIS & LORETTA - Willmar 8 (We Are All Equal You Know) - When There's Good to Be Done - 2015

VIVIAN NESBITT & JOHN DILLON - Jail Can't Hold My Body Down - The Songs of Mother Jones in Heaven, A Musical by Si Kahn (Si Kahn) -- 2019 Joe Hill Music  LLC

MAGPIE - Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino - Rebel Girl (Joe Hill) - When We Stand Together - 2017

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

Rise Up:

LINDA SUSSMAN - Join Hands - These Walls - 2021

ERIKA KULNYS - Rise Up - Rise Up- 2016

FRED ARCOLEO - We Are the Ones - Today Again - 2019

Playlist for 2/10/21

RIP, Anne Feeney:

 ANNE FEENEY - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

ANNE FEENEY - War on the Workers - Have You Been to Jail for Justice? - 2000

ANNE FEENEY - National Health Care Now! (Anne Feeney/Rory McLeod, Brian Cutean) - Union Maid - 2003

Impeach him:

EMMA'S REVOLUTION - So Impeachable (Emma's Revolution - Irving Gordon) - Single - 2019

PAUL KAPLAN - Impeachment Song - Single - 2019

JIM PAGE - Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out - Single - 2020

Black History Month - Atrocities:

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

BARBARA DANE - Only A Pawn in their Game (Bob Dylan) - Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs - 2018 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 

BOB DYLAN - The Death of Emmett Till - The Whitmark Demos: 1962-1964 - 2010 Sony

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

PAMELA MEANS - Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) - Single Bullet Theory - 2003  WIRL Records

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - Scars We Keep - Honest – 2019

Responsibility – Change:

TIA McGRAFF - What If - Single  - 2021

SIOBHAN QUINN & MICHAEL BOWERS - On the Turning Away - Dreamers, Lovers and Outlaws - 2007 Roundhouse Music

REGGIE HARRIS - Ready to Go - Ready to Go - 2018 Reggie Harris Music

MEGHAN CARY - Responsibility - Sing Louder - 2017

DENNIS WARNER - Potter's Wheel - Pilot Me - 2020

Rebellions -  Justice:

DAVID ROVICS - Berkshire Hills - Ten Thousand Miles Away - 2009

SOLAS - Padraig Og  Mo Chroi - All These Years - 2016 THL Records

HUGH MORRISON - Among the Proddy Dogs & Papes - Scotland Is Free – 2014

MARIA DUNN - We Were Good People - We Were Good People - 2004

ERIC ANDERSEN - The Rebel (Song of Revolt) - Shadow and Light of Albert Camus - 2015

Unemployment:

MARIA DUNN - How Do You Do, 1935? - We Were Good People - 2004

JOHN McCUTCHEON - The Tramp (Joe Hill) - Joe Hill's Last Will - 2015 Appalsongs

TRET FURE - Unemployment Blues - Roses in Novermber - 2018

BYRD & STREET - A Man with A Cardboard Sign - This Much Is True - 2017

JEAN ROHE - No Work - The End of the World Show - 2013

Happy Valentine's Day

HEALY & JURAVICH - Great Chazy River - Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006

Playlist for 2/3/21

 Change:

MARA LEVINE - River (Bill Staines) - Jewels and Harmony - 2013

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

LUKE CONCANNON - It Won't Wait - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS - Rise - The Twangtown Paramours - 2010 Inside Edge Records

SAM COOKE - A Change Is Gonna Come - 1963

Black History Month/Slavery:

WINDBORNE- Stole and Sold - Song on the Times - 2017

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

RHIANNON GIDDENS/AMHTHYST KIA/ALLISON RUSSELL/LEYLA McCALLA  - Slave Driver - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

LEYLA McCALLA/RHIANNON GIDDENS/ALLISON RUSSELL – Blood and Bones - Songs of Our Native Daughters - 2019 Smithsonian Foldways Recordings

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

Environment:

LORETTA HAGEN - This World of Ours - Lucky Stars – 2017

SI KAHN - Winter coming On - Bristol Bay - 2013 Strictly Country Records

LETITIA VANSANT and the BONAFIDES - Rising Tide - Parts & Labor - 2014

BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN - Bloomin' Rose - Echo in the Valley - 2017

ERIC ANDERSEN - Darkness - Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron - 2017

Homeless:

LUKE CONCANNON - Feel You in My Arms - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

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

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

JOEL RAPHAEL - Meanwhile the Rain - America Come Home -2012 Inside Recordings

PAUL SIMON - Homeless - Graceland - 1986/2012

Liberation/Revolution:

LUKE CONCANNON - Join the Liberation - Ecstatic Bird in the Burning - 2021

CHARLIE KING & KAREN BRANDOW - Levantese Companero (Angel Parra) - Puppet Town - 2002 Vaguely Remeniscent Sounds

JANET BATES - Calling for You - Another Child - 2006

CHRISTY MOORE - The Companeros (Ewan MacColl) - Joy of Living - 2015 Compass Records

SARA THOMSEN - All Across the Land - Everything Changes - 2008

Dreams:

ALICIA VIANI - Tomtom Farm - Alicia Viani - 2019

COLVIN & EARLE - Ruby Tuesday (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) - 2016