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

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM May 1 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, May 1, 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.

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

Linda Sussman / The Change / Every Road / Sing Out Proud / 5:22

Sarah McQuaid / Slow Decline / If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous / Shovel and A Spade Records / 3:12

Dulcie Taylor / Halfway to Jesus / Better Part of Me / Black Iris Records / 4:05

Driftwood Soldier / Satan (Your Kingdom Must Come Down) / Blessings and Blasphemy / self / 4:34

Diane Patterson / The Spliff Song / Open Road / self / 4:08

Ry Cooder / Gentrification / The Prodigal Son / Fantasy / 3:14

John Prine / Caravan of Fools / The Tree of Forgiveness / Oh Boy / 2:28

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

Mary Gauthier / Soldiering On / Rifles & Rosary Beads / Thirty Tigers / 5:32

Low Lily / Brothers in Arms / 10,000 Days Like These / Mad River Records / 4:45

Ry Cooder / Jesus and Woody / The Prodigal Son / Fantasy / 5:58

Psoy Korolenko / Misha Tserryst Hitlers Drytchland – Misha Tears Apart Hitler’s Germany / Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II / Six Degrees / 3:10

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now on WCOM April 24 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, April 24, 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.

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

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

Sly and the Family Stone / Stand / Stand / Sony BMG / 3:08
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James Brown / Fight Against Drug Abuse / The Singles Volume 7: 1970-1972 / Universal Records / 0:36

James Brown / Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud Part 1 / The Singles Volume 5: 1967-1969 / Universal Records / 2:42

The HoneyDippers / Impeach the President / [single] / Tuff City / 3:59

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

Linda Sussman / The Change / Every Road / Sing Out Proud / 5:22

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

Alan Barnosky / Childhood Dreams / Old Freight / self / 2:57

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

Wood and Wire / Kingpin / North of Despair / Blue Corn Music / 3:19

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn / Come All You Coal Miners / Echo In The Valley / Rounder / 3:53

Dom Flemons / Old Chisholm Trail / Black Cowboys / Smithsonian-Folkways / 1:52

Driftwood Soldier / Farther Along / Blessings and Blasphemy / self / 3:35

Joe Jencks / Who Will Speak for Me / The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures for the Pen of Si Kahn / Turtle Bear Music / 4:25

Playlist The Revolution Starts Now WCOM April 10 2018

The Revolution Starts Now: The Topical Song Show, April 10, 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.

Blackbeard’s Tea Party / Werry Whaling Ground / Leviathan / self / 5:42

Mare Wakefield and Nomad / I Will Not Be Broken / Time to Fly / Maresie Music/ 3:42

David Davis & the Warrior River Boys / White House Blues / Didn’t He Ramble: Songs of Charlie Poole / Rounder / 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

The Young Novelists / All Alone / In City and Country / self / 4:27

Ruth and Max Bloomquist / Sing Me The Red River Valley / On A Canvas Painted Blue / Ruby Records / 4:06

David Robert King / Taller Than These Pines / Idaho / self / 5:43

John Prine / The Lonesome Friends of Science / The Tree of Forgiveness / Oh Boy / 4:41

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

Jon Shain / Mr. Snake Oil! / Times Right Now / Flyin’ Records / 4:29

Psoy Korolenko / Kazakhstan / Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II / Six Degrees / 6:30