North Carolina Roots of Atomic Bomb Songs

Charlotte's Fred Kirby wrote the first Atomic Bomb song, starting a brief country music fad of which the biggest hit was the Sons of the Pioneers' cover of Sam Hinton's "Old Man Atom."

https://nchistorytoday.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/fred-kirby-mojo-nixon-and-atomic-power/ 

Playlist for The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM August 4 2015

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, August 4, 2015 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 / 3:09

Crosby Stills Nash & Young / Ohio / Neil Young Archives Volume I [1963 - 1972] / Reprise / 2:29

Neil Young / War Song / Neil Young Archives Volume I [1963 - 1972] / Reprise / 3:29

Fiddlin’ John Carson and His Virginia Reelers / Dixie Division / / Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square / 4:19

George Gibson / Old German War Introduction / Last Possum Up The Tree / June Appal / 0:31

George Gibson / Old German War / Last Possum Up The Tree / June Appal / 3:48

Coley James / Army Mule in No Man’s Land / Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square / 3:10

Lead Belly / Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler) / Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection / Smithsonian Folkways / 4:34

Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers / At Mail Call Today / [78 rpm single] / Bluebird / 3:17

Jim Eanes & the Shenandoah Valley Boys/ Missing in Action/ Early Days of Bluegrass Volume 4 / Rounder / 3:01

Jim and Jesse / Purple Heart / Best Of The Early Years / Master Classics Records / 2:51

Pete Seeger / Waist Deep in Big Muddy / Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:00

Jimmy Cliff / Vietnam / Jimmy Cliff / Trojan Records / 4:48

Iris Dement / There’s a Wall in Washington / The Way I Should / Warner Brothers / 5:19

Josh Hisle / Bring My Brothers Home / Whiskey at Home / Vapor Records / 4:43

Playlist WCOM Revolution Starts Now July 28 2015

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, July 28, 2015 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 / 3:09

Gene Autry / The Death of Mother Jones / !Protest! American Protest Songs 1928-1953 / Viper / 2:38

Paul Robeson / Joe Hill / Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:59

John McCutcheon / There Is Power in the Union / Joe Hill’s Last Will / Appalseed / 2:58 

Aunt Molly Jackson / Hard Times in Coleman Mines / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields / Lonesome Records / 2:34

Sarah Ogan Gunning / That Twenty-Five Cents You Paid [Live] / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields / Lonesome Records / 2:21

Sue Massek / Down on the Picket Line / Precious Memories / Strictly Country / 1:34

Ron Short / The Redneck War / Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields / Lonesome Records / 5:18

Kathy Mattea / Coal Tattoo / Coal / Captain Potato / 3:17

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

Si Kahn / The Brookside Strike / New Wood / Philo / 2:29

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Dave McCarn / Cotton Mill Colic / [78 rpm single] / Victor V-40274 / 2:36

The Dixon Brothers / Weave Room Blues / Are You from Dixie?: Great Country Brother Teams of the 1930's / RCA / 2:35

Slim Smith / Bread Line Blues / Protest! American Protest Songs 1928-1953 / Viper / 3:20

Fraizer Family / Welfare Blues / 100 Early Blues Recordings / Goldenlane Records / 3:39

Big Bill Broonzy / Black, Brown and White / Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:45

New Lost City Ramblers / ’31 Depression Blues / 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:15

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Playlist WCOM Revolution Starts Now for July 21 2015

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, July 21, 2015 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 / 3:09

Steve Earle and Dirk Powell / Just Before The Battle, Mother - Farewell, Mother / Divided & United: The Songs Of The Civil War / ATO / 4:55

Rich Kirby / We're Stole and Sold from Africa / Cowan Mountain Music School / June Appal / 1:36

Chris Thile and Michael Daves / Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel / Divided & United: The Songs Of The Civil War / ATO / 4:24

Warde H. Ford / The Battle of Antietam / Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents / Rounder / 4:37

Buell Kazee / The Faded Coat Of Blue / Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square / 3:19

Grayson & Whitter / He's Coming to us Dead / Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square / 3:05

Bascom Lamar Lunsford / Booth Killed Lincoln / Songs and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of Presidents / Rounder / 2:51

Dock Boggs / Cole Younger / Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 1:49

John Jackson / John Henry / Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:23

Addie Graham / Battleship the Main / Been a Long Time Traveling / June Appal / 2:25

Mississippi Sheiks / Sales Tax / !Protest! American Protest Songs 1928-1953 / Viper / 3:02

Pink Anderson / The Titanic / Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:53

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

Ernest Stoneman / Uncle Sam and the Kaiser / Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 / Tompkins Square / 3:06

Alfred G. Karnes / Called to a Foreign Shore / The Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-1937, Vol. 1-2 / Yazoo / 3:10

Jim Lauderdale / Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat / Song of America / Thirty Tigers – Split Rock / 2:11

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