9-11 Songs
September 11, 2001 is the date that terrorists hijacked airliners and
crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon
near Washington DC.
These are the songs, CDs, etc., suggested for commemorating the anniversary
of September 11, 2001. Many thanks to all who responded, and please forgive
me if I've left your suggestion off the list!
Susan Forbes Hansen
Songs:
Laurie Anderson: "Live From Town Hall." ... possibly #1,2, 7, 8, 9 on the
first disk. One the second disk check out #5, 7, 9, 10.
Jim Bizer: (Kerrville Newfolk finalist): "We are all Connected" [CD single
available. jb@jimbizer.com]
Acie Cargill: Tora Bora & Afghanistan
Kitty Donohoe: There Are No Words (single) [www.kittydonohoe.com]
Allison Downey: "On the Day" written 9/12/02, on her debut album "Wind at
Your Back" [www.allisondowney.com]
Steve Earle: John Walker Blues
Mark Erelli: -- "The Only Way" (Signature Sounds EP)
L.A. Estridge: Unholy War (single) [www.nightwatchrecords.com]
The Flaming Lips: "Evil Will Prevail," written after the Oklahoma City
bombing. (The Lips are from OKC) Sad, pretty melody, captured the despair of
that terrorist attack.
John Flynn:
Robin Greenstein: "Hole in the Ground." http://www.robingreenstein.com/
http://www.mp3.com/RobinGreenstein
Tim Grimm: Coyote's Dream (pre-9/11, but prescient -- on next CD, not
available yet)
Kim & Reggie Harris: "Short Shift at Ground Zero"
Tim Harrison: "Ship To Come In" (Bridges), "Prayer Watching" (Sara And The
Sea) [2nd Av]
Daniel Jacobs: Our World Now (single) [daniel_jacobs@hotmail.com]
Lucy Kaplansky: don't know the title but the chorus runs "This is the land of
the living."
Enoch Kent: "My Father's Cause" (I'm A Working Chap) [2nd Av]
Christine Lavin: The Firehouse (I Was in Love with A Difficult Man) [Redwing]
Jim Lesses: "Night Falls Over Manhatten", and available as a high quality MP3
on his website at http://www.jimlesses.com
John McCutcheon/Tom Chapin/Michael Mark: Follow the Light (single, also on
John's new "The Greatest Story Never Told")
John McCutcheon: Not in My Name (new CD)
Suzanne McDermott: Goose Steppin' (single) [info@rosemared.com]
The Mollys: a song based on a newspaper account of workers in a World Trade
Center daycare center not knowing what to do to get all those kids out of
harm's way until they decided to: "Put the baby in the shopping cart and
run." "Put the Baby in the Shopping Cart" on the Mollys' latest release,
"Trouble" (Apolkalips!, APN 0201CD). You can hear an MP3 of the song via
http://www.efolkmusic.com/
Carrie Newcomer: I Heard An Owl (single) [www.carrienewcomer.com]
Tom Pacheco: "Heroes" (partially about 9/11) from "There Was a Time,"
Appleseed, end of September but hope to have in your hands by 9/11 (no
promises).
Tom Paxton: The Bravest (single, and on forthcoming album, not to be released
before 9/11)
Kimmie Rhodes feels that she wrote "Darkness Lifting" as a premonition of
9/11, just a couple of days before it happened in fact. Also "Witness to the
Crime" ?
Sandy Ross: September 11th (single) [sandyross@mindspring.com]
Danny Schmidt: Already Done & Tick Tock (Six Billion Stars)
[http://www.mp3.com/dannyschmidt
Jan Seides: "To Give Us Peace". To listen to it first, there is a soundfile
(in RealAudio) of it on my website: http://www.janseides.com
Bruce Springsteen: You're Missing, others (The Rising), Columbia
Richard Thompson: How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
Loudon Wainwright has one about riding the subway under Ground Zero -- not
released yet
Hank Williams, Jr.: America Will Survive
Neil Young: Let's Roll
If you want to freak out your audience you could always play the horrific
"God Bless the USA" by the evil and cynical Lee Greenwood. It's even worse
than Hank Jr.'s.
You might go to the folkdj-l archive (I forget the URL, but you can link
there from folkradio.org) and browse through the playlists from the week or
two following 9/11/01
CDs:
"Tears of A Thousand Years"
"Vigil"
there was the Winter Sing Out! issue in which all songs were about 9/11
Heroes
Eric Bogle: Our National Pride (Endangered Species), Greentrax 196 (about
firemen and women in Australia)
Angela Marseglia: "Gonna Rain Today" She wrote this song in memory of the
five Worcester firefighters who perished December 1999. It's on her "Days
Gone By" http://www.folkzone.com/AndreaMarseglia/welcome.htm
Hope
Eva Cassidy: Imagine
Aoifa Clancy: There Is Hope
Paul Kamm and Eleanor McDonald: "Calling on Love"
Joel Mabus: In the category of hope and seeing the big picture, "Sea Of
Dreams" from PROMISED LAND
Rob MacKillop: title cut "The Healing", (Greentrax)
Paul Simon: "American Tune" might be appropriate.
One respondant: "I've always found Dar Williams's Mortal City inspirational,
the idea of people in a big heartless city coming together to help each other
out for love."
Appleseed: "Songs by Category" page on our website pressroom <
www.appleseedrec.com/pressroom/songs/> The category for "Heroes, Martyrs &
Outlaws" lists specific people, none related to 9/11, but the category for
"Optimism, Self-Determination & Defiance" has some great suggestions.