Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM December 11 2018 Best of 2018 Show

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 11, 2018 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. http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com. Underwritten by radicallocalism.com and Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe.

Show #204: My Favorites from 2018

Shemekia Copeland / Ain't Got Time For Hate / America's Child / 4:18

Greg Hawks / King of Hate / I Think It's Time / self / 3:07

Janelle Monae / Americans / Dirty Computer / Bad Boy Records / 4:06

Khari Wendell McClelland / Song of the Agitator / The Freedom Singer / Base Line Music / 3:06

Kaia Kater / Grenades / Grenades / Smithsonian Folkways / 4:28

Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys / Lakota Sioux / Pickup Cowboy / self / 4:24

Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches / Get Us Out of Fearland / Get Us Out of Fearland / / self / 2:27

Rachel Baiman / Tent City / Thanksgiving EP / Free Dirt Records / 3:19

The Mammals / Culture Wars / Sunshiner / Humble Abode Music / 3:26

Zoe Speaks / There’s A Hole Where Your Soul’s Supposed to Be / Wings / Redbird Records / 4:09

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, & Sam Gleaves / If the Poor Don’t Matter / Shout and Shine / Community Music / 4:29

John McCutcheon / Waist Deep in the Big Muddy / This Fire / Appalsongs / 3:13

Sarah McQuaid / If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous / If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous / Shovel and A Spade Records / 4:24

Joe Jencks / Why Are the Guns Still Firing / The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures for the Pen of Si Kahn / Turtle Bear Music / 3:27

Barbara Dane / Working People’s Blues / Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:47

Please email links to downloads of music and album information (track cards or lyrics exponentially increase chances of airplay). If music is only available on CD, then please mail to PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510, USA

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM December 18 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December 18, 2018 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. http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com. Underwritten by radicallocalism.com and Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe.

Show #205: The Oft Postponed 200^th Show of Old Favorites

Neil Young (with Pearl Jam) / Throw Your Hatred Down / Mirror Ball / Reprise / 5:46

U2 / Sunday Bloody Sunday / War / Universal-Island / 4:39

Jimmy Cliff / The Bigger They Come, the Harder They Fall / Better Days Are Coming: Jimmy Cliff at A&M 1969-1971 / Universal / 3:13

Bob Marley and the Wailers / Buffalo Soldier / Legend / Island / 4:17

Big Bill Broonzy / Black, White, Brown / Trouble in Mind / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:44

Lead Belly / Bourgeoise Blues / Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:11

Woody Guthrie / Do-Re-Me / American Radical Patriot / Rounder / 3:01

Joan Baez / I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night / Folk Song America / Smithsonian Collection / 3:27

Phil Ochs / The War Is Over / The War Is Over: The Best Of Phil Ochs / A&M / 4:24

Nina Simone / (To Be) Young Gifted and Black / Forever Young, Gifted And Black: Songs Of Freedom And Spirit / RCA Legacy / 2:53

The Clash / The Clampdown / The Story of the Clash / Sony / 3:49

Tom Robinson Band / (White House) Up Against the Wall - Live at Capitol Theatre 6-1-79 / Power in the Darkness / EMI-Harvest / 3:34

Public Enemy / Fight the Power / Fear of a Black Planet / Def Jam / 4:42

Sir Mix A Lot / One Time’s Got No Case / Mack Daddy / American Recordings / 4:18

Please email links to downloads of music and album information (track cards or lyrics exponentially increase chances of airplay). If music is only available on CD, then please mail to PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510 USA

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM December 25 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, December25, 2018 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.

Show #206 Christmas Day

Roy Zimmerman / Buy War Toys for Christmas / Peacenick / Metaphor Records / 3:01

Mac Wiseman / The Ballad of the Lawson Family / The Mac Wiseman Story / CMH / 2:35

Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers / Strangest Christmas Yet / The Long-Awaited Album / Rounder / 3:41

Jeff Talmage / A Soldier’s Christmas / Blissville / Corazong / 4:26

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

Rev. J.M. Gates / Did You Spend Christmas in Jail? / Rev. J.M. Gates Vol. 7 (1929-1930) / Document / 2:56

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

YARN / Christmas in Prison / Shine the Light On / Ardsley Music / Red Bush Records / 2:54

Tom Paxton / Christmas in the Shelter / Boat in the Water / Pax Records / 4:04

Shinyribs / Back Door Santa / The Kringle Tingle / Mustard Lid Records / 2:47

The Waitresses / Christmas Wrapping / Deluxe Special: ZE Complete Recording / ZE / 4:34

The Living Sisters / NEON CHINESE CHRISTMAS EVE / Harmony Is Real: Songs For A Happy Holiday / Vanguard / 2:48

The Sultans of String [feat. Ruben Blades & Luba Mason] / Happy Xmas (War is Over) / Christmas Caravan / Relativity / 4:02

Chip Taylor / Merry F’n Christmas / The Little Prayers Trilogy / Train Wreck Records / 4:41

Fiddlin’ John Carson / Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over / [78 rpm single] / Okeh / 2:54

Please email links to downloads of music and album information (track cards or lyrics exponentially increase chances of airplay). If music is only available on CD, then please mail to PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510 USA

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM December 4 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, November 27, 2018 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. http://artmenius.com and http://lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com. Underwritten by radicallocalism.com and Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe.

Thanks to my in-studio performance guest: Katharine Whalen of the original Squirrel Nut Zippers with bassist Kenny Phelps-McKeown

Rachael Kilgour / Holy Are We / Game Changer / NewSong Recordings / 3:23

Sue Jeffers / Lunatic Fringe / Owning Class Hero / fbirecords / 4:26

Michael Logen / For What It's Worth (feat. Lizanne Knott and Jesse Terry) / Sunset Avenue Sessions / Back Room Racket / 2:42

Pratie Heads / Downfall of Piracy / We Did It! Songs of People Behaving Badly / Skylark / 2:33

Shannon Whitworth / Mill Mother’s Lament / Oxford American 2018 Southern Music Issue - North Carolina / Oxford American / 2:57

Tellico / Ballad Of Zona Abston / Woven Waters / Organic Records / 5:01

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird / Freedom is a Verb / The Butcher's Share / Oriente / 3:21

Please email links to downloads of music and album information (track cards or lyrics exponentially increase chances of airplay). If music is only available on CD, then please mail to PO Box 1161; Carrboro, NC 27510, USA