Playlist The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 30, 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 30, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510), underwritten by http://radicallocalism.com. http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

U2 / New Year’s Day / War / Island / 4:18

Victor Camozzi / Happy New Years Baby / Roadside Paradise / Volco Records / 2:15

The Copper Ponies / It’s A New Year Now / Ring Them Bells / Hudson Harding Music / 2:39

Slaid Cleaves / New Years Day / Sorrow and Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge / Music Road Records / 4:11

Si Kahn / New Year’s Eve / New Wood / June Appal / 2:37

Mary Harris / Happy New Year Blues / Where Will You Be Christmas Day? / Dust-To-Digital / 3:11

Lightning Hopkins / Happy New Year / Where Will You Be Christmas Day? / Dust-To-Digital / 3:42

Reverend Blosser with Kip Lornell / Mennonite New Years Day singing tradition / [field recording] / Blue Ridge Institute / 2:53

Jeff Taylor and Matt Combs / The New Year’s Come / Pa's Fiddle: Charles Ingalls, American Fiddler / Thirty Tigers / 0:53

   Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / Reuben / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 3:49

Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / Cluck Old Hen / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 2:35

Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / Katy Kline / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 3:05

Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / Let Me Fall / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 1:17

Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / John Brown’s Dream / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 2:39

Tommy Jarrell with Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Benton Flippen, Mac Snow, Norris Jarrell / Big Eyed Rabbit / Band in Transition: Camp Creek Boys to Smokey Valley Boys / Field Recorders Collective / 2:59

Homer and Jethro / Baby It’s Cold Outside / America’s Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer and Jethro / Razor & Tie / 2:55

Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / If We Make It Through December / Winter’s Grace / Signature Sounds / 4:25

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now December 23 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 23, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

The Refugees / This Christmas / [single] / Wabuho Records / 2:41

Paul Simon / Getting Ready for Christmas Day / So Beautiful or So What / Hear Music / 4:06

The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal / Talkin’ Christmas / Talkin’ Christmas / Sony Masterworks / 3:37

Staple Singers / Last Month of the Year / The 25th Day of December / Fantasy / 2:24

The Fairfield Four / Children Go Where I Send Thee / The Fairfield Four Christmas Experience / Noisetrade / 4:15

Lord Beginner / Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning / Where Will You Be Christmas Day? / Dust-To-Digital / 3:07

Decembersongs / Dad’s Drunk Again on Christmas / An East Nashville Christmas / Decembersongs13 / 3:46

Reverend Edward W. Clayborn / The Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas / Where Will You Be Christmas Day? / Dust-To-Digital / 2:33

Leroy Carr / Christmas in Jail -- Ain't That a Pain / Where Will You Be Christmas Day? / Dust-To-Digital / 3:22

The Barra MacNeils / Maybe This Christmas / O Christmas Three / The Barra MacNeils / 2:24

Robin and Linda Williams / The Old Familiar House on Christmas Day / Back 40 / Red House / 3:20

Fiddlin’ John Carson / Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over / Back Roads to Cold Mountain / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:54

The Solstice Assembly / Schnirele Perele / Some Assembly Required / Skylark Productions / 3:26

The Campbell Brothers / Dreydel Song / Sacred Steel for the Holidays / Arhoolie / 4:20

Steven Gellman / Jewish Christmas / Songs of Winter’s Cheer: Live from Hill Chapel / Hidden Poet Music / 4:10

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM December 16 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 16, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers / Early on One Christmas Morn / [78 rpm single] / Brunswick / 3:26

The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal / Early on One Christmas Morn / Talkin’ Christmas / Sony Masterworks / 3:16

The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal / No Room in the Inn / Talkin’ Christmas / Sony Masterworks / 3:16

Vera Hall-Ward / No Room at the Inn & Last Month of the Year / Southern Journey, Vol. 6: Sheep, Sheep Don'tcha Know the Road / Rounder / 8:59

John McCutcheon / Christmas in the Trenches / Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 3, No. 8) Season's Greeting / Fast Folk / 5:35

Tom Paxton / My Christmas Guitar / Just One Angel, v2.0: Even More Holiday Classics / Yellow Tail Records / 1:14

Benton Flippen / Breaking Up Christmas / Old Times, New Time / Rounder / 2:33

The Carolina Buddies / The Murder of the Lawson Family / [78 rpm single] / Columbia 15537 / 3:26
The Black Twig Pickers / Old Christmas Morning / Rough Carpenters / Self / 2:13

The Haints Old Time Stringband / Old Christmas Morning / Shout Monah / Self / 2:30

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys / Christmas Times A Coming / Bean Blossom Christmas Dec 14 1968 / private / 2:26

Ralph Stanley / O Beautiful Star of Bethlehem / Clinch Mountain Gospel / Rebel / 3:47

Reno & Smiley / Christmas Reunion / True Meaning of Christmas / Gusto / 3:08 

Elizabeth Mitchell / Christmas Day in the Morning / The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:19

Playlist - The Revolution Starts Now WCOM Dec 9 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 9, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

Neil Young / Throw Your Hatred Down / Mirror Ball / Reprise / 5:46

Christine Lavin / Women Walking Wearing Wings / If You Are Drunk You Can’t Buy a Puppy / christinelavin.com / 2:38 

John Hartford / Howard Hughes’ Blues / Morning Bugle / Reprise / 2:51

John Hartford / Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry / Aereo-Plain / Reprise / 3:28

John Hartford / Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore / Morning Bugle / Reprise / 4:52

John Prine & Mac Wiseman / Death of Floyd Collins / Standard Songs for Average People / Oh Boy / 3:25

John Prine / (We’re Not) The Jet Set / In Spite of Ourselves / In Spite of Ourselves / Oh Boy / 2:36

John McCutcheon / Ashcroft’s Army / Hail to the Chief! and Other Short Shelf-Life Classics / Appalsongs / 3:00

John McCutcheon / Talking Tinky-Winky Blues / Hail to the Chief! and Other Short Shelf-Life Classics / Appalsongs / 2:57

John McCutcheon / Stand Up / Stand Up! Broadsides for Our Times / Appalsongs / 4:42

Phil Ochs / Chords of Fame / The War Is Over: The Best Of Phil Ochs / A&M / 3:32

Phil Ochs / There But For Fortune / Folk Song America / Smithsonian Collection / 2:12

Phil Ochs / The War is Over / The War Is Over: The Best Of Phil Ochs / A&M / 3:32

Bob Dylan / Blowin’ in the Wind / The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan / Columbia / 2:51

The Revolution Starts Now WCOM December 2 2014 Playlist

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 2, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

Christine Lavin / Cary Grant Esther Williams Angelina Jolie and the Romance of the Gun / If You Are Drunk You Can’t Buy a Puppy / christinelavin.com / 3:46

Christine Lavin / Are We All Hardwired / If You Are Drunk You Can’t Buy a Puppy / christinelavin.com / 7:26

Christine Lavin / Remembering My Password(s) / If You Are Drunk You Can’t Buy a Puppy / christinelavin.com / 4:27

Patrick Sky / The Ballad of Ira Hayes / Folk Song America / Smithsonian Collection / 4:28 23.5 min

Steve Earle / Custer / Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited / Sony Masterworks / 2:58

James Keelaghan / Small Rebellion / Small Rebellions / Tranquilla / 6:23

Laura Love / John Hardy / NeGrass / Octoroon Biography / 2:36

Pete Seeger / Cotton Mill Colic / American Industrial Ballads / Smithsonian Folkways / 1:37

Pete Seeger / Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat / American Industrial Ballads / Smithsonian Folkways / 1:56

Pete Seeger / Mill Mothers Lament / American Industrial Ballads / Smithsonian Folkways / 1:35

Locust Honey String Band / Four Cent Cotton / Never Let Me Cross Your Mind / Hearth Music / 2:55

Phil Ochs / Draft Dodger Rag / Farewells & Fantasies / Elektra Traditions / 2:11

Bob Dylan / The Times They Are A-Changin’ / The Times They Are A-Changin’ / Columbia / 3:15

Phil Ochs / I Ain’t Marching Any More / Farewells & Fantasies / Elektra Traditions / 2:35

Playlist WCOM Revolution Starts Now Nov 25 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, November 25, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

Merle Haggard / Okie From Muskogee / The Complete '60s Captiol Singles / Omnivore Recordings / 2:44

Si Kahn / Gone Gonna Rise Again / New Wood / June Appal / 2:51

Carl Martin / Joe Louis Blues / Carl Martin, Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Louie Bluie, Ted Bogan and Willie "61" Blackwell - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order / Document / 2:47

Dennis Brown / Revolution / Reggae Anthology: Dennis Brown - Crown Prince of Reggae / VP Music Group, Inc. / 4:19

Black Uhuru / Whole World is Africa / Liberation: The Island Anthology / Mango / 5:16

Keb Mo’ / More for Your Money / Bluesamericana / Kind of Blue Music / 2:49

Rhiannon Giddens / The Vanishing Race / Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited / Sony Masterworks / 6:14

Locust Honey String Band / Four Cent Cotton / Never Let Me Cross Your Mind / Hearth Music / 2:55

Tom Lehrer / Fight Fiercely Harvard / The Remains of Tom Lehrer / Rhino – Reprise Archives / 2:44

Patrick Sylvest / Ballad of Hurricane Isaac / Lonesome Troubadour / Stray Records / 4:29

Paul Thorn / Mediocrity is King / Too Blessed to Be Stressed / Perpetual Obscurity / 3:34

Jackson Browne / Standing in the Breach / Standing in the Breach / Inside Recordings / 5:37

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show November 18 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, November 18, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomfm.org). Hosted each Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time by Art Menius (PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510). http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 3:10

Richard Thompson / The Money Shuffle / Dream Attic / Shout Factory / 5:56

Gil Scott-Heron / The Revolution will not be Televised / Pieces of a Man / Flying Dutchman / 2:59

Devo / Working in a Coal Mine / New Traditionalists / Warner Brothers / 2:50

The Miners / Miners Rebellion / Miners Rebellion / Match-up Zone Music / 5:21

Richard Thompson / Blackleg Miner (Live) / 1000 Years of Popular Music / Beeswing / 3:25

Natalie Merchant / Which Side Are You On / Music of Coal / Lonesome Pine / 5:01

Jeni & Billy / Jewel Ridge Coal / Jewel Ridge Coal / Jewel Ridge Records / 2:54

Merle Travis / Dark as a Dungeon / Back Home / Capitol Records / 2:52

Hazel Dickens / Black Lung / Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:27

Rick Kirby & Michael Kline / Coal Truck Breakdown / They Can’t Put It Back / June Appal / 2:17

Kathy Mattea / You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive / Coal / Captain Potato / 5:02

Blue Highway / Union Man / Music of Coal / Lonesome Pine / 3:35

Reel World String Band / Come All You Coal Miners / Music of Coal / Lonesome Pine / 2:20