Songs for the Fourth of July

The program for July 6, 2013, featured some songs on the theme of freedom for the Fourth of July holiday.

First hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Dick Gaughan The Freedom Come-All-Ye Sail On (Appleseed)
Karine Polwart Better Things This Earthly Spell (Proper)
Steve Tilston Doubting Thomas The Reckoning (Hubris)
New Set
Planxty Only Our Rivers Planxty (Shanachie)
Liam Weldon Dark Horse on the Wind Dark Horse on the Wind (Mulligan)
Music Under Announcements
Steve Tilston Ijna The Reckoning (Hubris)
Gabriel Yacoub Ces Dieux-Là The Simple Things We Said (Prime)
Dick Gaughan No Gods & Precious Few Heroes Sail On (Appleseed)
Dougie MacLean Turning Away Indigenous (Dunkeld)
New Set
Holly Tannen The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth (s/p)
Anais Mitchell (Greg Brown) Why We Build the Wall Hadestown (Righteous Babe)
Richard & Linda Thompson Sunnyvista Sunnyvista (Hannibal)
Tracy Grammer Hey Ho Flower of Avalon (Signature Sounds)
Richard Thompson Pharaoh Amnesia (Capitol)

Second hour:

Artist Song Title Album (Label)
Malvina Reynolds God Bless the Grass Sings the Truth (Omni)
Ingrid Karklins Crack the Slab A Darker Passion (Green Linnet)
Joanne Rand Torch of Freedom Stories from the Inside Out (Homefire Productions)
New Set
Lee Murdock The Star-Spangled Banner Here We'll Stand (Depot)
David Roth The Star-Spangled Banner and Me Big Times in a Small Town: The Vineyard Tapes (Philo)
Richard Shindell Born in the U.S.A. South of Delia (s/p)
New Set
Linda Waterfall Fourth of July Body English (Trout)
David Lindley y Wally Ingram National Holiday Twango Bango II (s/p)
Moby Grape Naked If I Want To High Sign (San Francisco Sound)
New Set
Melanie O'Reilly Going Beyond the Sun Dust and Blood (Mistletoe Music)
Marta Topferova Escape from the Grind The Other Shore (World Village)
Jake Shimabukuro The Star-Spangled Banner Gently Weeps (Hitchhike)
New Set
Steve Tilston Davy Lamp / Fruit Fly The Reckoning (Hubris)