6/14/09 Playlist

1. Buck Mountain Band: Oklahoma Waltz (Chicken in the Snowbank), Bent Trees 208 www.buckmountainband.com
2. David Dodson: Clean Up Time (Goldenrod), Blue North 102 Grovest33@version.net
3. Ruthie Foster: Up Above My Head (The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster), Blue Corn Music www.bluecornmusic.com
4. Ronny Cox: Grapes on The Vine (Songs ... with Repercussions), Wind River 4042 www.folkera.com/windriver

5. Mavis Staples: Touch My Heart (Touch My Heart), Sugar Hill 1081
6. Hoots and Hellmouth: Family Band (The Holy Open Secret), MAD Dragon www.maddragonrecords.com
7. The Refugees: You Plant Your Fields (Unbound), Wabuho www.therefugeesmusic.com
8. David Wilcox: Modern World (Open Hand), What Are Records www.whatarerecords.com

9. Dar Williams: Holly Tree (Promised Land), Razor & Tie
10. Ed Pettersen: June 1945 (Folk & Acoustic Sampler), Split Rock www.edpettersen.com
11. Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell: Wolves (One to The Heart, One to The Head), Scarlet Letter www.gretchenpeters.com
12. Adam Michael Rothberg: Live Every Day (Another Spin), self www.adamr.net

13. Vienna Teng: In Another Life (Inland Territory), Rounder / Zoe www.rounder.com]
14. Tom Rush: All A Man Can Do (What I Know), Appleseed 1115 www.appleseedmusic.com
15. Carrie Rodriguez: El Salvador (She Ain't Me), EMI www.manhattanrecords.com
16. Paul Rishell & Annie Raines: Old Man Mose (A Night in Woodstock), Mojo Rodeo www.paulandannie.com

The other night I watched "Enemy of The State," a 1998 film which predicted warrantless surveillance of civilians -- quite prescient!
17. Chuck Brodsky: Dangerous Times (Color Came One Day), Waterbug www.chuckbrodsky.com
18. Roy Zimmerman: Hello NSA (Faulty Intelligence), Metaphor www.royzimmerman.com

It's Flag Day, 232 years after the flag's adoption:
19. John McCutcheon: Our Flag Was Still There (download), self www.folkmusic.com
20. Cher: The Star Spangled Banner (Sing America), Save America's Treasures / Warner Bros
21. Johnny Cash: Ragged Old Flag (Johnny Cash's America), Legacy / Columbia
22. Dan Bern: The Torn Flag (My Country II), Messenger www.danbern.com
23. John Prine: Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Any More (John Prine), Atlantic

24. Ensemble: Dream Seek (Afterquake), Afterquake www.afterquakemusic.com
25. Patty Griffin: Making Pies (1000 Kisses), ATO www.pattygriffin.com
26. Cliff Eberhardt: The High Above and The Down Below (Red House Records 25th Anniversary Tour, Vol 2), FestivaLink www.festivalink.net
27. Buddy & Julie Miller with Emmylou Harris: The Selfishness in Man (Written in Chalk), New West www.newwestrecords.com

The Dreaded Folk Calendar over selections from Nina Gerber's "Not Before Noon," Goatscape www.ninagerber.com and ending with Lucy Kaplansky: Workin' in Corners

Some people don't think as well of others as they do of themselves and their own:
28. Chuck McCabe: Partisan Polka (Creatures of Habit), Woodshed www.chuck-mccabe.com
29. Todd Snider: Betty Was Black and Willie Was White (Happy to Be Here), Oh Boy www.ohboy.com
30. Nanci Griffith: The Loving Kind (The Loving Kind), Rounder www.rounder.com
31. John Prine: People Puttin' People Down (Great Days: The John Prine Anthology), Rhino

Some of those people have guns....
32. David Zink: Damn That Gun (Pyro), Papa's Moon
33. Steve Earle: The Devil's Right Hand (Copperhead Road), UNI / MCA
34. Joe Ely: Put Down the Gun (A Case for Case: A Tribute to The Songs of Peter Case), Hungry for Music www.hungryformusic.org

35. John McCutcheon: One Thin Swimsuit (Signs of The Times), Flying Fish
36. Michelle Shocked: Cancer Alley Rap/Wade in The Water (To Heaven U Ride), Mighty Sound www.michelleshocked.com
37. Eliza Gilkyson et al: Peace Call (Land of Milk and Honey), Red House 174 www.redhouserecords.com