Folk Songs About Farms

Farm auctions, farms lost.

[list compiled by Susan Forbes Hansen]
FARMS BEING LOST,  FARM-AUCTION SONGS
Auctions: 
Cathy Barton & Dave Para: Hazel's Auction (Sweet Journeys)
Jon Brooks - Auction Days - Exile Music
Marie Burns/ Auction at the Old Homeplace/ Free Little Bird
Dry Branch Fire Squad - Auction at the Home Place (Tried & True)
Lenny Gallant / Priscilla Herdman: Island Clay
Gibson Brothers: The Next One Is Me
Enoch Kent: The Farm Auction, I'm a Workin' Chap (also Garnet Rogers)
Larry Long: Grandma’s Penny Sale (Run for Freedom, Sweet Thunder)
 
Losing farms to debt / developers:
Chuck Brodsky: Acre by Acre
Junior Brown: Don’t Sell the Farm
Kate Campbell: Bury Me in Bluegrass (Songs From the Levee)
Hazel Dickens / Merle Haggard / Emmylou Harris / Gram Parsons / Flying 
Burrito Bros: California 
               Cottonfields
Kitty Donohoe: Farmer in Florida
Fred Eaglesmith: Thirty Years of Farming (The Official Bootleg Series Vol. 
1) also by James King
David Francey - Torn Screen Door
John Gorka: Houses in The Fields
Keith Greeninger: Ruby and Rosie (Wind River Crossing)
Nanci Griffith - Trouble in the Fields - One Fair Summer Evening
Anne Hills: The Farm (Points of View)
Kate Jacobs: Pete’s Gonna Sell (You Call That Dark)
Zoe Lewis re developers coming for tea ?
Kate MacLeod: Riding the White Horse Home (Blooming)
McCoury’s “Money� CD
Michael McNevin - Secondhand Story (Secondhand Story)
John Mellencamp: Rain on The Scarecrow
James Reams & The Barnstormers: Troubled Times - (Troubled Times)
Garnet Rogers: Break the Law 
Sally Rogers, "The Touch of the Master's Hand," THE UNCLAIMED PINT 
Marty Stuart / Merle Haggard: Farmer’s Blues (Moneyland), McCoury Music
Switchback: The Farmer Leaves the Dell (The Fire That Burns), 
WayGoodMusic.com
Kim Wallach: Take Your Bulldozers

Erica Wheeler, Good Summer Rain (Good Summer Rain

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann