Playlist for 4/21/21

Black Lives Matter: 

DAVID ROVICS - His Hands Were in the Air - When I'm Elected President - 2014

THE FOX RUN FIVE - $20 Bill (for George Floyd) (Tom Prasada Rao) - Single - 2020

PATTY GRIFFIN - The Wheel - Patty Griffin - 2019

RON ISRAEL - The Great Reckoning  - These Times - 2021

REGGIE HARRIS - Standing in Freedoms Name - On Solid Ground - 2021

 April 1846 US invaded Mexico:

DAVID ROVICS - St. Patrick's Battalion - Troubador/People's History in Song - 2010

THE CHIEFTAINS with RY COODER - The Sands of Mexico - San Patricio - 2010

JIM SHARKEY - A Man without A Country - Sweet Anne's Road - 2015

THE FENIANS - The San Patricios - Band of Rogues - 1999

TIM O'BRIEN -  John Riley (Tim O’Brien, Guy Clark) - The Crossing - 2020

Viet Nam antiwar movement:

DAVID ROVICS - They Couldn't Stand By - 1939 - 2016

TOM PAXTON - Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs) - The Songs of Phil Ochs - 1995 Sliced Bread Records

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born in the USA - Born in the USA - 1984

COUNTRY JOE MacDONALD - Fixin' to Die Rag - Live at Woodstock - 1969

ORDINARY ELEPHANT - The War - Honest - 2019

Gun Control:

FRICTION FARM - I Am A Mother - Evidence of Hope - 2021

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

LOU DOMINGUEZ - Gun Country - We the People - 2013

RED TAIL WING - Gibson Town - Fall Away Blues - 2016

CHERYL WHEELER- If It Were Up to Me -1997

What's wrong/Responsibility:

RON ISRAEL - American Tragedy - These Times - 2021

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

ROB McHALE - Prophets on the Boulevard - Prophets on the Boulevard - 2018

FRICTION FARM - Work - Evidence of Hope - 2021

MEGHAN CARY - Responsibility - Sing Louder - 2017

Songs for the Spirit:

SI KAHN - Going Up the Mountain - Courage - 2010 Double Time Music

RON ISRAEL -  Hope - These Times - 2021

Playlist for 4/14/21

 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

Failed state of USA:

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

Racism/Inclusion:

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

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 3/31/21

 PETE SEEGER - Maple Syrup Time - Seeds: Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 - 2003 Appleseed Recordings

THE BOXCAR LILIES - Sugar Shack - Sugar Shack - 2013

Women's History Month:

JIM SHARKEY - Mother Jones - A Lovely Day - 2019

BILLY CROCKETT - Mavis - Rabbit Hole – 2016

SHARON ABREU -  Wangari - A New Bottom Line - 2014

ANNE FEENEY - Amelia Earhart's Last Ride - If I Can't Dance - 2006

WOOL&GRANT - JANIS (Ina May Wool) - Wool&Grant – 2013

Justice:

TIA McGRAFF - What If - Single - 2021

JOHN McCUTCHEON - Sharecropper's Son - Trolling for Dreams - 2017

ROY ZIMMERMAN - Someday (We Shall Overcome) - The Faucet's on Fire! - 2015

JUD CASWELL - That's the Way We Climb - Live at the Seagull Shop - 2019

JOEL RAFAEL - Under Our Skin (Joel Rafael/Jason Mraz) - Rose Avenue - 2019 Inside Recordings

Banksters:

AOIFE SCOTT – Ireland's Hour of Need - Homebird - 2020

JACKSON BROWNE - Which Side? - Standing in the Breach - 2014 Inside Recordings

SKINNER & T'WITCH - Off-Shore - Everybody's Grotty - 2018

JOHN McCUTCHEON – Dearest Martha – Gonna Rise Again – 1987 Rounder Records

DAVID FRANCEY - The Money Boys - Empty Train - 2016

Immigration:

ELLEN BUKSTEL - Strangers in This Land - Single - 2021

HEALY & JURAVICH - The Sky Road- Tangled in Our Dreams - 2006 Finnegan Music

DAVID FERRARD - I Am an Immigrant (I'm from Here) - Journeyman - 2011 Alter Road Records

KYLE CAREY - Wind Through Casper - North Star - 2014

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

Hard Times/Hope:

ELIOT BRONSON - Even This Is Going to Pass - Single 2020

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

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

DANIELLE MIRAGLIA - Glimmer of Gold - Box of Troubles - 2011

DAVE LIPPMAN - I Think There's More - I Hate Wal-Mart  - 1998

Songs for the Spirit:

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

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

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

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