Folk Songs For Pledge Drive

Pledge drive is when we ask people to support our community radio station financially.

[money]
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin\ Seventeen Cents\ Stay Awhile\ Rounder
Nanci Griffith - Do Re Mi - Other Voices/Other Rooms - Elektra
Steep Canyon Rangers\ One Dime at a Time\ One Dime at a Time\ Rebel
Waylon Jennings\ Workin' Cheap\ The Eagle\ Epic
Chris Stuart and Backcountry\ Dollar Bill Blues\ Mojave River\ Self
Del McCoury \ Moneyland \ Moneyland \ McCoury

[do good]
Guy Davis\ We All Need More Kindness in this World\ Legacy\ Red House

[community radio]
Utah Phillips / NPR song / Starlight on the Rails

[Bob Dylan and covers]
Bob Dylan\ Simple Twist of Fate\ Blood on the Tracks\ Columbia
Bob Dylan\ Maggie's Farm\ Essential\ Columbia
Tim O'Brien's "Red On Blonde"
Nickel Creek\ Tomorrow is a Long Time\ Why Should the Fire Die?\ Sugar Hill

[Beatles covers]
Jake Shimabukuro\ While My Guitar Gently Weeps\ Walking Down Rainhill\ Sony
Ed Gerhard / Counting the Ways / If I Fell/In My Life / (or Maura O'Connell)

[Other covers]
Danu\ Farewell, Farewell\ The Road Less Traveled\ Shanachie
Alison Brown\ Homeward Bound\ Stolen Moments\ Compass

[Richard Thompson]
Beeswing
1952 Vincent Black Lightning

[Grateful Dead]
Wake the Dead\ Uncle John's Band\ Buckdancer's Choice\ Redwing
Hot Tuna

[old-time]
The WIYOS\ Lady Quit Her Husband Onexpectedly\ Hat Trick\ Self
Will Keys\ Cat in the Pear Tree\ A Banjo Original\ County
Benton Flippen\ Bile them Cabbage Down\ Old Time, New Times\ Rounder
Bruce Molsky / Poor Man's Troubles / Peg & Awl / Old-Time

[local]
Steve James & Del Rey\ Precious Five\ Tonight\ Hobemian
Del Rey\ Can't Get That Stuff No More\ Boogie Mysterioso\ Hobemian
Heidi Muller & Bob Webb\ I Will\ Seeing Things\ Self
Johnson, Miller & Dermody\ Some of these Days

[Stan Rogers & hearty Canadians]
Stan Rogers\ Barrett's Privateers or the Mary Ellen Carter
Finest Kind\ Squid Jiggin' Ground or Goodnight-Loving Trail or As I Roved Out
The Duhks\ The Wagoner's Lad

[old faves]
John Prine w/Iris DeMent\ The Jet Set\ In Spite of Ourselves\ Oh Boy
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole\ Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World\ Facing Future\ Bigboy
Peter, Paul & Mary\ If I had My Way\ Peter, Paul & Mary\ Warner
Dave van Ronk\ Outside of a Small Circle of Friends\ What's That I Hear? (VA)\
Soggy Bottom Boys\ I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow\ O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack\ Mercury
John Denver\ Take Me Home, Country Roads\ Essential\ RCA
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie\ When I'm Gone\ Spoken in Love\ Long Tail

[bluegrass]
Dailey & Vincent\ Sweet Carrie\ Dailey & Vincent\ Rounder
Tara Nevins\ Sittin' On Top of the World\ Mule to Ride\ Sugar Hill
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder\ Sis Draper or Sally Jo\ Brand New Strings\ Skaggs Family
Lynn Morris\ It Rains Everywhere I Go\ Mama's Hand\ Rounder
Allison Krauss and Union Station\ Restless\ Lonely Runs Both Ways\ Rounder

[celtic and nautical]
The Cutters\ Nova Scotia Farewell or Whiskey in the Jar
Altan\ Reels from Island Angel or Harvest Storm
Shanghaied on the Willamette\ Chicken on a Raft\ Weighing Anchor\ Self

[political]
The Mammals\ The Bush Boys\ Rock That Babe\ Signature
Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald\ I've Got To Know\ Fool's Paradise\ Freewheel

[ukulele]
Jake Shimabukuro\ Stars & Stripes Forever\ Song of America (VA)\ Split Rock

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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