Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM July 3 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, July 3, 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.

Kim Moberg / Resist / Above Ground / Kim Moberg Music / 5:04

Rev. Sekou / Resist / In Times Like These / Zent Records / 4:05

Tret Fure / Unemployment Blues / Roses In November / Tomboy girl Records / 2:33

Rue Snyder / Don’t Lose Heart / Don’t Lose Heart [– Single] / self / 3:16

B / We Are All the Same / Ghosts Underneath My Skin / Lonely Rainbow / 5:25

Ron Israel / Trying to Stay Positive (In a Negative Zone) / Tribal War / self / 2:35

Reggie Harris / Times They Are A Changin' / Ready to Go / Self / 4:22

Claudia Russell & Bruce Kaplan / Land of Plenty / Lover’s Tree / Radio Rhythm Records / 4:15

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

Anita Aysola / America / Beyond Our Dreams / self / 4:31

Skinner & T'witch / Too Many Feet / Too Many Feet [advance single] / S&T / 3:48

Todd Burge / Adam of Eve / Adam of Eve [single] / Bunj Jam Music / 3:20

Tracy Grammer / Forty-Niner / Low Tide / Tracy Grammer Music / 4:46

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now June 26 2018 on WCOM

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, June 26, 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.

Liz Phair / Love-Hate / Liz Phair / Capitol / 3:43

Neil Young / Let’s Impeach the President / Living With War / Reprise / 5:07

Kyle Craft / Before The Wall / Before the Wall – single / Sub Pop / 4:45

Pink Floyd / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 / The Wall / Sony / 3:49

Anais Mitchell featuring Greg Brown / That’s Why We Build the Wall / Hadestown / Righteous Babe Records / 4:18

David Rovics / They’re Building a Wall / Falasteen, Habibti / self / 3:23

Reggie Harris / Hickory Hill / Ready to Go / Self / 4:59

John Linn / Do Re Mi / Illinois 14 / Giant Spoon Music / 2:57

Chicano Batman / This Land is Your Land / This Land is Your Land – single / self / 3:01

Los Texmaniacs / Across the Borderline / Cruzando Borders / 3:48

The Andrew Collins Trio / Coming into Hard Times Blues / Tongue / self / 2:15

The Kennedys / Be Silent No More / Safe Until Tomorrow / The Kennedys LLC / 3:16

Brian Gladstone / Behind the Maple Leaf Slaughterhouse Doors / Brainology /self / 4:56

I’m With Her / Hundred Miles / See You Around / Rounder / 3:32

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM June 19 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, June 19, 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.

RAW / Dawomen Dakò / August 1791 / self / 4:31
They point out key lessons in Haitian history, as in the high-energy “Dawomen Dakò,” about the historic pact between African and Creole communities to fight together for what would become Haiti.

Reggie Harris / Hickory Hill / Ready to Go / Self / 4:59

Gordon Lightfoot / The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald / All Live / Rhino / 6:31
Recorded May 7, 1998 at Massey Hall

Tim O’Brien / Poor Ellen Smith / Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey / Smithsonian Folkways / 2:23

Joe Rollin Porter / Black Jack Davy / Take this Hammer / self / 3:27

Anita Aysola / America / Beyond Our Dreams / self / 4:31
For “America,” a love song for a country striving for universal ideals despite recent rancour, Aysola found the chords first, then began to play with Indian elements on top. “As I was finishing this song, I was jamming out with my new Hindustani vocal teacher,” says Aysola. “I realized the sargam felt really good with the chords I already had in mind.”

Kate Callahan / Love Rebels / Triumph / self / 3:49

Joyce Luna / We Shall Be Seen / Every Road We Take / self / 5:07

Ivan Rosenberg / Thoughts and Prayer$ / [single] / self / 2:26

John Linn / Fool’s Gold Miner / Illinois 14 / Giant Spoon Music / 5:26

Bett Padgett / Tell Us When / [single] / single / 4:06

Indigo Girls / Go / Live with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra / Rounder / 4:10

The Whiskey Farm / Songs of Resistance / Songs for Social Change Volume 2 / RAWA / 4:28

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now WCOM-FM 103.5 May 22 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, May 22, 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.

Joyce Luna / Affirmation (The NO Song) / Every Road We Take / self / 2:26

Rahim AlHaj / Dasht / One Sky / Smithsonian Folkways / 8:02

Annie Lou / Them Government Blues / End Zone / self / 2:14

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

Todd Burge / 55 Strong (For Our WV Teachers) / Today's Headlines (Topical Songs) / Bunj Jam Music / 1:52

Rob McHale / Blair Mountain / Prophets on the Boulevard / Wooden Door / 4:35

Jack Ballangee Morris / West Virginia Refugee / West Virginia Refugee / GBS Records / 3:47

Susan Shann / Price on Heaven (Song for Bristol Bay) / Reckless Abandon / self / 3:38

Eric Andersen / Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam / The Essential Eric Andersen / Real Gone / 6:14

Dave Curley & Mick Broderick / Off to War / Brand New Day / self / 4:03

The Kennedys / Be Silent No More / Safe Until Tomorrow / Burnside / 3:16

Susanna Rich / Nicole Brown Simpson to OJ (20^th Century Othello) / Shakespeare’s *itches: The Women Sing Out / Wild Night Productions / 4:42

Dada Veda / Be Kind to Everyone / The Sun Will Shine / RAWA / 2:27

Los Texmaniacs / Deportee / Cruzando Borders / Smithsonian Folkways / 3:54

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM May 8 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, May 8, 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.

Thanks to our interview guest, John McCutcheon, playing at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC on Friday, May 18

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

Rod Abernathy / The Bucket Song / The Man I'm Supposed to Be / Downstairs / 3:33

John McCutcheon / Burley Coulter at the Bank / Ghost Light / Appalsongs / 5:27

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

John McCutcheon / Story of Abe / Ghost Light / Appalsongs / 5:27

Joe Rollin Porter / Black Jack Davy / Take This Hammer / self / 3:27

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

Todd Burge / 55 Strong (For Our WV Teachers) / Today's Headlines (Topical Songs) / Bunj Jam Music / 1:52

Skinner and T’Witch / The Iron Fish Remembers / [single] / S&T Records / 4:09

Dada Veda / Caring Heart / The Sun Will Shine / RAWA / 2:59