Environment, Ecology and Earth Day Folk Songs
Earth Day, April 22
[played for ED 2008]
Shelley Posen\ No More Fish, No Fishermen\ The Old Songs' Home\ Well Done
Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie\ We Belong To The Earth\ Spoken In Love\ Long Tall
Kristen Grainger & Dan Wetzel\ Oceans Rising\ Part Circus- Part Rodeo\ True North
Martyn Joseph\ Dolphins Make Me Cry\ Thunder & Rainbows\ Pipe Records
Joe Jencks\ Gasoline\ The Candle & The Flame\ Turtle Bear
[recycling]
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker\ Ain't Gonna Throw It Away\ The Mountains Above and the Valleys Below\ Self
Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie w/Jay Ungar & Molly Mason\ Get Some Cash For Your Trash\ Guide My Feet\ Appleseed
[played by me for ED in 2005]
Finest Kind - Heart's Delight - No More Fish No Fishermen - Fallen Angel
Dougie Maclean\ Ready for the Storm\ Dougie Maclean Collection\ Putumayo
[recent suggestions]
Catie Curtis\ Passing Through\ Sing Out V.51#1 (VA)
Lauren Lapointe\ The Last Tree\ Butterfly\ Self
Joe Jencks\ Gasoline\ The Candle and the Flame\ Turtle Bear
David Wilcox\ The Nightshift Watchman\ The Nightshift Watchman\ Koch
Northern Pacific\ Cold Sheets of Rain\ Lone Pine\ self
Martyn Joseph\ Dolphins Make Me Cry\ Thunder and Rainbows\ Pipe
Tim Robbins\ All My Children of the Sun\ Where Have All The Flowers Gone (VA)\ Appleseed
Baby Gramps\ Medley of Heartwarming Worm Songs\ Same Ol' Timeously\ self
Dar Williams\ The Beauty of the Rain\ The Beauty of the Rain\ Razor & Tie
Magpie\ We Belong To the Earth\ Seed on the Prairie\ Long Tail
Tom Lehrer / Pollution
Shelley Posen\ No More Fish, No Fishermen\ The Old Songs' Home\ Well Done
Kamm & MacDonald:
Toxic Dumpsite - Fields of Elysian and Live
Last Tango in Paradise - Calling on Love
The Hills of Glendale - Into the Clouds
Alathea - Game of Dances
[list compiled by Kelley Martin, 2005]
Carlos Olmeda - Trinkets and Blood - LEARNING TO WALK
(about the hunting of elephants for ivory)
Still on the Hill - Beautiful Butterfly - CHAOS & CALM
(about Julia Butterfly Hill's fight to save the redwoods)
Don McLean - Tapestry - TAPESTRY
Beat Goes On / EMI Group
(about the interrelationship between the environment and humans)
Patty Larkin - Metal Drums - LIVE IN THE SQUARE
(about industrial pollution)
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi - HITS
Pete Seeger - My Rainbow Race - PETE
Pete Seeger - Garbage - CIRCLES AND SEASONS
Holly Near - Mountain Song - IMAGINE MY SURPRISE
Magpie - Circle of Life - CIRCLE OF LIFE
Magpie - The Living Planet - THE LIVING PLANET
Magpie - The Land Knows You're There - THE LIVING PLANET
Andrew McKnight - The Other Way - WHERE THIS RIVER RUNS
Laurie Lewis - Val's Cabin - TRUE STORIES
Bill Staines - River - FIRST MILLION MILES
T. R. Richie - Grand Canyon Song - RIVER OF SONG
Katie Lee - Dam Site - GLEN CANYON JOURNEYS
Lenny Solomon - Global Warming Blues - ARMANDO'S PIE
Walkin' Jim Stoltz - These Are the Ancient Forests - THE VISION
David Roth - I Do Not Need a Bag - NIGHTS AT THE CHEZ
Peter Rowan - Forest For the Trees - DUST BOWL CHILDREN
[older suggestions]
Magpie;The Chestnut ; SEED ON THE PRAIRIE [Long Tail]
The other one is Circle of Life.
Pat Humphries- Same Rain CD contains Garbage, Swimming to the other Side, Common Thread.
Patty Larkin, Metal Drums, The Last Leviathan, she wrote both tho they have been covered aplenty
100 Million Little Bombs Buddy Miller
A Town Called Progress Andrew McKnight
Across the Hills Ian Campbell Folk Group
Acony Bell Gillian Welch
Across the Hills Leon Rosselson
After the Flood Lone Justice
After The Deluge Jackson Browne
Big Mac Tree John Forster
Big Blue Gordon Lightfoot
Black Flies Bill Staines: JUST PLAY ONE MORE TUNE [FolkLegacy]
Black Sea John McCuthcheon
Bounce/Money Musk John McCuthcheon
Breathing Space Artisan
"Brigid's Shield" on Susan Graham White's new release, "Sounding Land"
Bring the Harvest Home Chris Knight
Bristlecone Pine Jim Salestrom: FOLK LIVE [BluePlanet]
Buy Back the Amazon Nylons
Chemical Voodoo Andrew McKnight
Copper River John McCuthcheon
Dancing in the Rain Andrew McKnight
Deep Tang Kate Campbell
Dixie Storms Lone Justice
Earth Night Solution Darryl Cherney
Earth First Maid Darryl Cherney
Ease on Down the River The Acousticats
Ecology Song (Mercy Mercy) Robert Palmer
Eel River Flood of '86 Darryl Cherney
Every Grain of Sand Emmylou Harris
Forest For the Trees Peter Rowan: DUST BOWL CHILDREN [SugarHill]
From a Distance Julie Gold
Garden Song Dave Mallet
Gatlinburg Andrew McKnight
Great Gulf Wind Sonny Landreth
Green Fields Laurie Lewis
Green Rolling Hills Emmylou Harris
Harvest Moon Neil Young
Haven of Mercy Laurie Lewis
Hazardous Blues Kathy N. Right
He Looked A Whole Lot like Jesus Darryl Cherney
Hickory Wind Gram Parsons
Homegrown Tomatoes Guy Clark
How Will the Wolf Survive? Los Lobos
Idaho The Bodeans
If a tree Falls Earthbeat
If You Love Me (Why Am I Dyin') Boxing Gandhis
In The Pines Sandy Rothman/Steve Pottier: BLUEGRASS GUITARDUETS [Sierra]
Kern River Dave Alvin
King Neil Young
Kiss Mother Nature Goodby Hank Williams Jr
Less Is More Laura Love
Like a Picture Darryl Cherney
Lonesome Canyon New West
Maxxam's On the Horizon Darryl Cherney
Mine For Evermore Mike Silver
Mississiippi Flood of 1927 Charlie Patton
Montana Skies John Denver
Monterey Pines Brooks Williams
Mother Earth is Burning Aloid
My Family Owns This Town David Olney
Natural Resources Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco
New World A-Comin' JP Jones
Ohio The Pretenders
Paradise John Denver
Plant Your Fields New Grass Revival
Power John Hall/Orleans
Power In the Earth Walkin' Jim THE VISION [Wild Wind]
Red Rain Peter Gabriel
Redwing Blackbird Billy Edd Wheeler
Return of Dismal Swamp John McEuen
River's Rising Leftover Salmon
Rocky Mountain High John Denver
Sand, Water, Waves Laurie Lewis
Seventy Miles Malvina Reynolds
Shrimp Song Townes
Sierra Madre Moon Over the Interstate The Mollys Apolkalips Now!
Silver Lining Nils Lofgren
Snowin' on Raton Townes Van Zandt
Song of the Sea Dan Fogelberg
Songbird by Pete Morton Mad World Blues (Green Linnet)
Southern Cross CSN
Texas Bluebonnets Laurie Lewis
Thanks Trees Judy Dunlop/Ashley Hutchings Sway WithMe ; SWAY WITH ME
The Earth Has Sent A Message Jim Layeux Earthlings
The Oak Judy Dunlop/Ashley Hutchings: SWAY WITH ME
The Oak and the Laurel Laurie Lewis
The Other Way Andrew McKnight
The River's Own Chris Knight
The Hills of My Home Laurie Lewis
The Wild Places Dan Fogelberg
These Are the Ancient Forests Walkin' Jim Stoltz: THE VISION[Wild Wind]
These Woods Atwater/Donnelly WHERE THE WILD BIRDS DO WHISTLE[BCN]
This House & 90 Acres Chris Knight
This Island Earth Jonathan Edwards' ONE DAY CLOSER CD Rising Records
Traveler Andrew McKnight
Uncloudy Day Willie Nelson
Val's Cabin Laurie Lewis
Walden (The Ballad of Thoreau) Michael Johnathon Dreams of Fire CD
We Want The Whole Thing Back Dakota Sid: GREENFIRE[Ind]
What am I Bid? Artisan
When the Rivers Had No Names Bernice Lewis Isle of Spirit Blue Bhikku
Where Grass Won't Grow George Jones
Where the Bluegrass Grows Greg Garing
Where This River Runs Andrew McKnight
Where Will the Children Play? Cat Stevens
Where are We Going to Work When the Trees Are Gone Darryl Cherney
"Whitebark" TR Ritchie......Homeground
Who Killed Judy Bari Darryl Cherney
Whoville Jupiter Coyote
Wild Roses Kimmie Rhodes
Wildflowers Dolly Parton
Wildwood Flower Carter Family
Yellowstone John Denver
You Say That the Battle is Over Dave Mallet
Yucky Bugs MacArthur Family MACARTHUR ROAD [FrontHall]
The Acousticats Ease On Down The River The Cat's Meow (Ranch Records - CD)
Ackerman, Winston & Hedges Hawk Circle An Evening With Windham Hill Live Windham Hill
Carolyn Aiken Ground Zero Butler Field Silverwolf Records
DAVE ALVIN Mother Earth King of California Hightone, 94
Dave Alvin Dry River
Eric Andersen Sunshine & Flowers The Collection / Archive
Artisan Our Back Yard
Artisan Curupay Freijo Breathing Space (Bedspring Music - CD)
Artisan Big Green Credit Machine
Artisan NIMBY Our Back Yard / Bedspring Music
Artisan This is the Way the World Ends
Babes With Axes Look Higher Up W.O.W. Live Babes! (Babes With Axes - CD)
Cathy Barton & Dave Para Granite Lake Crazy Quilt (Barton & Para - CD)
Lou and Peter Berryman Why Am I Painting the Living Room? WHAT, AGAIN?!
Heather Bishop Our Silence/Old, New, Borrowed, Blue/Mother of Pearl
Rachel Bissex Wildflowers Don't Look Down (Alcazar Productions - CD)
Rory Block The Last Leviathan Tornado Rounder
Kate Campbell Deep Tang Visions of Plenty (Compass Records - CD)
Brenda Carlisle Bless the Beasts and the Children Tame Yourself PETA/Q
BERNARD CARNEY/PETER GRAYLING The Sugar and The Grain
Tracy Chapman The Rape of the World New Beginning Elektra
Don Charles/Deb Gessner Row MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH/Buzzard's Luck
Don Charles & Deb Gessner (D Squared) Spinning the Mud Turtle Matter of Life & Death Buzzard's Luck Music
Darryl Cherney You Can't Clearcut Your Way To Heaven If A Tree Falls EarthBeat!
Bruce Cockburn If A Tree Falls If A Tree Falls EarthBeat!
Judy Collins Farewell To Tarwathie Forever Elektra
Judy Collins The Coming of the Roads
Erin Corday Fragil Painted Door Waterbug Rercords
David Crosby & Graham Nash To The Last Whale Wind on the Water MCA - LP
Alice DiMicele The Beaver Song It's a Miracle Alice Otter
Alice Di Micele Defend The Earth If A Tree Falls (EarthBeat! - CD)
Neil Diamond Be Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Columbia - LP)
Carol Elliot Sequoyah The People I Meet Heartstrong Records
Robin Flower & Libby McLaren The Woman Who Planted Trees Angel of Change Little Cat
Steve Goodman / Grand Canyon Song / Affordable Art / Red Pajamas
Herdman, Hills, Mangsen Requiem for the Trees Voices Flying Fish/Rounder
Tish Hinojosa Something in the Rain CULTURE SWING Rounder
Ralf Illenberger Forgotten Places Earth Songs (Narada - CD)
Nic Jones Green to Grey In Search of Nic Jones Mollie Music 52 Newland Pk Dr., York YO10 3 HP England
Coco Kallis/God Bless the Grass/Environmental Songs For Kids/Smithsonian Folkways 45048
Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald Toxic Dumpsite Fields of Elysian (Freewheel Records - CD)
T.R. Kelley Clearcut Disillusion Water Wears The Stone Darkwater Music
Fred Koller When It's Gone It's Gone / / Bay Folk
Patty Larkin Metal Drums Tango/High Street & Live in the Square - Philo
Tom Lehrer Pollution That Was The Year That Was (Reprise - CD)
Bernice Lewis When the Rivers Had No Name Isle of Spirit Blue Bhikky
Jim Layeux The Earth Has Sent A Message Earthlings (Stemwall Productions - CD)
Jim Layeux Earthlings
Abbey Lincoln Wholly Earth Wholly Earth Verve/NQ
EWAN MACOLL The Isle of May with Peggy Seeger and Calum MacColl WPR recording
MAGPIE We Belong To The Earth Seed On The Prairie LongTail
John McCutcheon Water From Another Time Water From Another Time Rounder
Magpie with Kim and Reggie Harris We Belong To The Earth Spoken in Love Long Tail Records
Eileen McGann Requim for the Giants Turn it Around
Eileen McGann Bonny Portmore Journeys Dragonwing Music/QQ
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi Ladies of the Canyon Reprise
Holly Near Mountain Song, Kentucky Woman Imagine My Surprise Redwood
Casey Neill Old Father Hudson/Sailing Down Dirty Stream Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Appleseed Recordings - CD)
Tom Nielson Radiation Train - Dancin Shoes - Roaring Jelly
CHRIS NEWMAN The Riverside
Nightnoise The Cricket's Wicket The White Horse Sessions Windham Hill - CD
Tim O'Brien On the Rolling Sea When No One's Around Sugar Hill
RIK PALIERI Plant A Tree Panning For Gold Azalea City
Victoria Parks I'm Going Solar Just Soon As I Can Sure Feels Like Home Appropo Multimedia
Tom Paxton When It's Gone, It's Gone It Ain't Easy Flying Fish
Tom Paxton Let The Sunshine Up & Up Drive
Tom Paxton Whose Garden Was This Best of Elektra
Tom Paxton There Goes the Mountain Heroes Vanguard
Peter, Paul & Mary The Coming of the Roads Flowers and Stones Warner
John Prine Paradise John Prine (Atlantic - LP)
Darryl Purpose Same River Twice DARRYL PURPOSE/self
Toshi Reagan Justice Justice Flying Fish
Ann Reed Styrofoam By Request A Major Label
Malvina Reynolds What Have they Done to the Rain?
Rhiannon Love of the Land Toward Home Ladyslipper QQ
David Roth Earth Rising In Love Folk Era
Peter Rowan Forest For The Trees Dust Bowl Children Sugar Hill
Barbara Saint John Gone The Days Emily Mystic Pilgrim Music
Schooner Fare Leviathan Classic Schooner Fare Outer Green Records
CARLA SCIAKY The Song that Bird Sings AWAKENINGS Green Linnet
Pete Seeger Garbage Circles & Seasons Warner
PETE SEEGER God Bless The Grass God Bless The Grass, Columbia
Pete Seeger Sailing up my Dirty Stream
Cosy Sheridan 18 Holes on the Open Range Grand Design Bonneville Worldwide
Cosy Sheridan Don't Go In the water - Grand design
Bill Shontz Hole in the Ozone Animal Tales Lightyear Ent. 800 229 STORY
Mike Silver Mine For Evermore Roadworks (Faymus Recordings - CD)
Woody Simmons Who Will Save the Animals Woody Simmons Deep River/Q
Fred Small Hot Frogs on the Loose Fred Small in Concert & Everything's Possible - Flying Fish/Rounder
Bill Staines River The Whistle of the Jay Folk-Legacy
Dean Stevens Salmon River EYES OF WONDER/Volcano
John Stewart After the Rain American Sketches LaserLight
Walkin' Jim Stoltz The Vision The Vision Wild Wind Records
June Tabor Elephant Angel Tiger Green Linnet
Tiddas Spirit of the Winter Tree Sing About Life Loose Cannon
Sue Trainor Sludge Train In A Closeup (Sue Trainor - CD)
Norma Waterson&Martin Carthy Earth Wings of Butterflies Mrs. Ackroyd
Welfare Starlets Trash the Planet Wreaking Havoc Space Anne Records
Susan Graham White Brigid's Shield Sounding Land Big Bay Records
Cris Williamson, Teresa Trull For Molly's Sky Country Blessed Second Wave
Paul Winter Consort The Lake Earthbeat (Living Music Records - CD)
Paul Winter, Paul Halley & Leonard Nimoy Whales Weep Not!/Lullaby From The Great Mother Whale To The Baby Seal Pups Whales Alive (Living Music - LP)
Kate Wolf Agent Orange
Wyrd Sisters Farewell to Clayoquot Sound Inside the Dreaming Wyrd
Yagottawanna Mahogany Tree Live! Yagottawanna
Various Artists Hero's Journey Eco-Challenge (EarthSea Records - CD)
On "Progress"
Joyful Noise We're in the same boat now - Cassette
David Rovics Parking Lots and Strip malls - We Just Want the World
John Gorka Houses in the Fields - Jack's Crows - High Street Rec.
Andrew McKnight Gatlinburg - Traveler - Falling Mountain
Some simple ideas of what you can do:
I Don't Need a Bag - David Roth Nights at the
What Can You Do? - Jim and Dave Awesome Environmental
What You Gonna Leave? - Greg Trafidlo Old Dog New
Garden Song - Dave Mallet Parellel Lives - Flying Fish/
Lay Down Your Whopper - Howlin' at the Moon Cassette - self
Doggie-Doo Blues - Cali Rose Gets Goofy -
Rolling in Green - Jim Gorden and Dave Awesome Environmental
Bottles and Cans - Bob Norman To The Core - Night Owl Records
Roadside Art - David Wilcox East Ashville Hardware - Fresh baked Records
How about Changing Your Mind - Jay Mankita Jay Mankita
White Wings - Magpie Seed on the Prarie - Long Tail Records
Robert Forrest - Frannie Gates
Farming
As Long as the Land Trova
Vermont Farmer's Song Margaret MacArthur
The Man Behind the Plow Paddy Tutty
Prairie Lament Sue Massek on a cassette
Russian River Flood Kim Wallach
Grandma's Penny Sale Larry long
Bury Me In Bluegrass Kate Campbell
Listen to the Thunder Carla Sciaky
Leaving this Land Suzanne Thomas
Trouble in the Fields Nancy Griffith
Prayin For Rain Kittie Donohoe
Lambing to the Wool Judy Small
Farmer Kristin Lems (I am a farmer, not a farmer's wife.."
Farm Auction Garnet Rogers The Outside Track
The Farm Susan Graham White Sounding Land - Big Bay Rec.
Ask Any Farmer John McCutcheon What it's like - Rounder
http://www.topsoil.net/farmsongs.htm
I also did a three hour radio show on the subject, which is here:
http://www.topsoil.net/farmplst.htm
There is a whole album of environmentally aware stuff called "Think About the Planet"
that contains numerous appropriate material. Remy Rodden is the artist
Ray Korona Band CD _It's Still the 60's, "Polluting Is Fun".
Bede Weeps Jez Lowe Bede Weeps Fellside
Jez Lowe Tenterhooks Sweep Horizons Clean Green Linnet (A song using the images of
coal mine-stripped land and the once green hills.)
Jez Lowe The Crake in the Morning Tenterhooks Green Linnet (Uses images of the
corn-crake, a bird, which almost disappeared due to industrialization of Britain.
Now that the industry is disappearing there, the crake is reclaiming the countryside.
It is woven in with the dual meaning of the plight of workers.)
Jez Lowe Sons of the Century Tenterhooks Green Linnet (About technology & its effects)
Jez Lowe Aloysius Tenterhooks Green Linnet (A talking dog who complains about
the mistreatment of dogs by man.)
Jez Lowe Galloways Galloways Musica Pangaea (About the ponies used in European mining.
The ponies were blinded by the lack of light in their service to man.)
Peter and Lou Berryman, ONE LAND, ONE HEART, put out by Musicians United to Sustain the
Environment, organized by Walkin' Jim Stoltz. That whole album would make a great earth
day show.
Mike Silver "Mine For Evermore" "Roadworks" CD. It's anti-whaling from the whale's
point of view.
Feeling that Earth Day had been co-opted, Darryl Cherney wrote "Earth Night Action",
which is essentially about a world wide eco-sabotage campaign, from a humorous
point of view if you can imagine that.
There's a whole album that comes instantly to mind, called "If a Tree Falls," on the
Earth Beat label. It's a compilation CD, with some percentage of sales going to some
environmental groups and it's got everyone from Bruce Cockburn to the Wyrd Sisters to
Buffy St. Marie, and another fifteen or twenty people besides, doing songs