Playlist The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show October 7 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, October 7, 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 lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

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

Nina Simone / Young Gifted and Black / Gifted and Black / Canyon / 2:53

Nina Simone / Strange Fruit / Verve Jazz Masters 17:  Nina Simone / Verve / 3:32

Nina Simone / Old Jim Crow / The 60’s Vol. 1 – Nina Simone / Mercury / 2:38

Georgia Sea Island Singers / Get in Union / Georgia Sea Island Singers / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:29

Mass-Meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi / Freedom Now Chant / Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / 0:29

The Freedom Singers / We Shall Not Be Moved / Folk Song America / Smithsonian Collection / 2:22

Florence Reece & the Almanac Singers / Which Side Are You On? / Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:39

Ani DiFranco / Which Side are You On? / Which Side on You On / Righteous Babe  / 6:27

Jackson Browne / Which Side? / Standing in the Breach / Inside Recordings / 6:37

Jackson Browne / Leaving Winslow / Standing in the Breach / Inside Recordings / 3:53

Bob Dylan / Masters of War / Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan / Columbia / 4:34

John Mellencamp / The Company of Cowards / Plain Spoken / Republic / 3:52

The Clash / Washington Bullets / Sandinista! / Columbia / 3:51

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, September 30, 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, September 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). http://artmenius.com and lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

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

Hazel & Alice / Coal Miner’s Blues / Classic Mountain Songs / Smithsonian-Folkways / 2:45

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

Hazel Dickens / Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again / By The Sweat of My Brow / Rounder / 2:53

Hazel Dickens / The Yablonski Murder / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields / Lonesome Records / 2:57

Alice Gerrard / Boll Weevil / Follow the Music / Tompkins Square / 3:10

Rod MacDonald / The Last American Worker / Later That Night / BlueFluteMusic.com / 4:50

The Stray Birds / Simple Man / Best Medicine / Yep Roc / 3:38

Gary Kanter / I Wished Woody Guthrie Were Here / Forever Vigilant / Self / 3:38

Woody Guthrie / Do Re Mi (KFVD 1937) / Woody at 100 / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:37

Woody Guthrie / 1913 Massacre / Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:39

Woody Guthrie / Pretty Boy Floyd / American Radical Patriot / Rounder / 4:22

The Byrds / Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos ) / Full Throttle / Columbia Legacy / 3:05

The Revolution Starts Now Playlist September 23 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, September 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 lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

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

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

MC5 / Shakin’ Street / Are You Ready to Testify? / Sanctuary Records Group / 2:48

The Stooges / 1969 / A Million in Prizes: The Anthology / Virgin / 4:06

Lord Invader / Yankee Dollar / If You Ain't Got The Do-Re-Mi - Songs Of Rags & Riches / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:32

Lord Beginner / Nora the War is Over / [78 rpm single] / Disc (New York) / 2:28

Big Boy Henry / Mr. President / Work’s Many Songs / JEMF-Arhoolie / 2:53

Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers / White House Blues / You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music / Columbia Legacy / 3:31

Aunt Molly Jackson / Hard Time in Coleman’s Mine / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields / Lonesome Records / 2:34

Banjo Bill Cornett / Old Age Pension Blues / Mountain Music of Kentucky / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:02

Hazel & Alice / Don’t Put Her Down, You Put Her There / The Rounder Records Story / Rounder / 3:46

The Clash / Clampdown / London Calling / CBS / 3:49

Revolution Starts Now Radio Airs Today

By Art Menius

 “The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show,” my fourth radio show and first created entirely by me, returns for its second outing today,  Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 4 PM EDT on WCOM-FM 103.5 in Carrboro, NC. The one hour program can be heard each Tuesday on WCOM, WCOMFM.org, and on Tune In Radio. Today's show will be live in the studio. It will kick off with the Steve Earle and Public Enemy songs that did not make the start of last week's show and explore from there!

“The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show” explores the rich world of songs about historical and then current events. Not necessarily political, topical songs can be as humorous as Justin Timberlake’s “Mister Kennedy” from the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis or even an instrumental like “The Eighth of January” about the Battle of New Orleans. They can back centuries like many of the Child Ballads or discuss contemporary events.

Underwriter: radicallocalism.com, providing tools for individuals and communities to shape public policy from the grassroots up. See also www.facebook.com/radicallocalism and @radicallocalist on Twitter.

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show Playlist September 16, 2014

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, September 16, 2014 on WCOM-FM 103.5, community radio for Carrboro and Chapel Hill, NC (www.wcomtfm.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 lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com.

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

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

Black 47 / Bobby Kennedy / Trouble in the Land / Mercury / 4:34

Fairport Convention / Matty Groves / Liege and Leaf / Island / 8:08

Blind Alfred Reed / How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live / Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 / Revenant / 3:16

Uncle Dave Macon / Governor Al Smith / Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 / Revenant / 3:08

Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick / To Hell With the Land / Songs of Vern and Ray / / 3:27

Sam Hinton / Old Man Atom / Folk Song America Vol 1 / Smithsonian Collection / 3:10

Phil Ochs / Outside a Small Circle of Friends / The War Is Over: The Best Of Phil Ochs / A&M / 3:42

Bob Marley & the Wailers / I Shot the Sheriff / Legend / Island / 4:40

The Clash / Clampdown / London Calling / CBS / 3:49