The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, July 25, 2017 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. Underwritten by radicallocalism.com and Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe.

Steve Earle / The Revolution Starts Now / The Revolution Starts Now / E-Squared-Artemis / 1:09

Kat Goldman / Don't Know Where I'm Bound / The Workingman's Blues / Self / 5:24

Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers / All I Do Is Work / Lost Nights At The Leopard Lounge / Warrior Poet Productions / 4:42

Slaid Cleaves /Little Guys / Ghost on the Car Radio / Candy House Media / 3:01

Loretta Hagen / This World of Ours / Lucky Stars / Bearfort / 3:30

Jesse Terry / Woken the Wildflowers / Stargazer / self / 3:45

Andrew Combs / Dirty Rain / Canyons of my Mind Single Pack + PledgeMusic Acoustic Sessions / self / 3:12

The Blind Boys of Alabama / People Get Ready (Live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW) / Higher Ground / Real World / 3:34

Southern Avenue / Peace Will Come / Southern Avenue / Stax / 4:10

Roger Salloom / Don’t Let My Country Wash Away / Playboys and Playgirls / Florence Records / 3:54

Danny O’Keefe / So Long Harry Truman / Home / Road Cannon Music / 4:39

Rick Drost / Don’t Remember Train / Turning the World / self / 3:37

Friction Farm / The Price of War / So Many Stars / self / 3:26

Ron Israel / Everyone Knows the President Lies / Homeless in America / self / 1:26

Magpie – Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino / Which Side Are You On? / When We Stand Together: Songs of Joe hill, the IWW, and Fellow Workers / Long Tail Records / 3:49

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM July 11 2017

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, July 11, 2017 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. Underwritten by radicallocalism.com and Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe.

The Decemberists / July July! / Castaways and Cutouts / Hush Records / 2:53

Will Rhodin / Doctor of Peace / [single] / self / 3:40

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio / Dark as a Dungeon / Singin’ / Vessel Recordings / 3:43

Ani DiFranco / Play God / Play God EP / Righteous Babe / 4:53

Mayito Rivera / Harley Davidson de Cuba / Best of Cuba / ARC Music / 5:33

James Lee Stanley / Open Your Eyes / Had Enough Yet? / Beachwood / 3:24

Tim Grimm / Gonna Be Great / Stranger in Time / self / 5:23

Alastair Moock / Make it Great / Alastair Moock / Moock Music / 4:18

Emma’s Revolution / I Need a Progressive Woman (Revolutionary Mind) / Revolution Now / Moving Forward Music / 4:00

Ron Israel / Resist / Homeless in America / self / 3:38 https://youtu.be/PKx1SUOpzq0

Ron Israel / Everyone Knows the President Lies / Homeless in America / self / 1:26

Beth DeSombre / Bowling Green Massacre / Resistance / self / 1:59

Friction Farm / We Can / So Many Stars / self / 3:57

Bev Grant / National Anthem: Arise! Arise! / It’s Personal / self / 5:13

New Show on WHUP-FM Hillsborough NC Classic Eno Festival Live

In conjunction with the first day of the Festival for the Eno, my new show on WHUP-LPFM 104.7 www.whupfm.org launched on July 1. Classic Eno Festival Live, a weekly presentation of historic music recorded live at the famed July 4^th festival in Durham, NC, airs each Saturday from 11AM until Noon eastern. By special arrangement with the Eno River Association and permission of the artists or their assignees, WHUP can offer these live recordings archived at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC. Each episode streams on www.whupfm.org for two weeks after broadcast at https://whupfm.org/show/classic-eno-festival-live/.

Classic Eno Festival Live is in addition to my long standing The Revolution Starts Now on Tuesdays at 4PM Eastern on WCOM-LPFM 103.5 www.wcomfm.org 

Episodes this month:

July 1: Red Clay Ramblers 1990
July 8: Durham Rangers 1985
July 15: Big Boy Henry and Lightning Wells 1988
July 22: Seldom Scene 1988
July 29: Seldom Scene and the Shady Grove Band 1988