"I really wanted a decent job, I really needed some scratch
(I heard people talking about a dream, now, a dream that I couldn't catch)
I really wanted to be somebody and all I had was a match
Couldn't get oil from Rockefeller's wells
Couldn't get diamonds from the mine
If I can't enjoy the American dream, won't be water but fire next time
So I said

Burn baby burn
Burn baby burn
Nowhere to be, and-a no one to see
I said-a nowhere to turn
Burn baby burn"

Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick & Jimmy Collier - Burn Baby Burn (1968)
https://youtu.be/VXSoAdorWdA

Every day brings freakier bad news. All musicians need to crank out some protest songs. About anything, whatever’s messing with your mind, heart and soul. #protestsongs #protest #music #musician

"A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." - Phil Ochs

Please add your favorite's below!

In no particular order my top 10 favorite protest songs

1) For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield
2) Ohio - CSNY
3) Killing In The Name - Rage Against the Machine
4) Get up Stand up - Bob Marley and The Wailers
5) Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
6) All You Fascists Bound to Lose - Woodie Guthrie
7) American Idiot - Green Day
8) Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
9) Fuck tha Police - NWA
10) We shall overcome - Pete Seeger
11) Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
12) Deportee - The Byrds
13) Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
14) “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” - Tracy Chaprman
15) ‘Sun City’ - Artists United Against Apartheid
16) They Killed Him - Kris Kristofferson
17) Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
18) Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Dead Kennedys
19) This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
20) Imagine - John Lennon

We're at the Wintergrass Bluegrass Festival this weekend and one of the acts, Della Mae (amazing all woman band) played this song. (Yes, sisters, preach!)

My parents bought me "So Far" in '74. I was 12 and it changed my world. CSN&Y remains near and dear to my heart.

#music #protestsongs #OldPeopleOfMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

A protest song a day ... was banned by the BBC ... dance floors still pumped #protestsongs #music #nofascism #politics #unity #dance #expressyourself #protest

Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need Thi...

Listening to Woody Guthrie, Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti, https://archive.org/details/WoodyGuthrie-BalladsOfSaccoVanzetti/.
#Music #ProtestSongs #SocialProtest

I'm interested in protest songs, particularly any that were made between 2016 - 2020, and any coming out now. Back in the 1960's, these types of songs actually got played on the radio, but now that would be impossible, so the best way to discover these songs is by sharing them.

I'll start with SJ Tucker, who has written several great protest songs over the years, this one always fills me with hope:

https://youtu.be/W-isi6W2tM4?si=KnFV0soMcsWw4cZe

#music
#ProtestSong
#protestsongs
#singersongwriter
#folk

https://youtu.be/tqQ0YOyZqY4
Pfandbeschleuniger - Friedrich Merz

Man könnte ja erwarten, dass die heutige Zeit mehr Punksongs zu Merz und co bringt.
Hier ist wenigstens mal ein Anfang.

Killing In The Name Of
Rage Against The Machine
(Live 1993)

RIP Alice Brock, of "Alice's Restaurant" fame.

TIL: Alice helped Arlo Guthrie write the first part of the song. The restaurant of the song, the Back Room, was in Massachusetts, but was closed by the time the song became famous. She was also a librarian and an author.

For the kids who don't want to spend 20 minutes listening to the whole story: in between the catchy chorus about how you can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant, Arlo sing-talks a long story. It starts with a big dinner at Alice's. Then Arlo and his pal take some trash to the dump, but the dump is closed, so they leave the trash in a ravine. Then they get arrested for littering and Alice bails them out. THEN, later on, Arlo gets called for the Vietnam draft, but since he has this criminal conviction for littering he is not, as the song puts it, "moral enough join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug." Hence why it became an anti-war anthem.

#music #FolkMusic #AntiWar #ArloGuthrie #ProtestSongs

https://archive.is/hjhou

Red Bandana Radio is a 2-hour radio program based in solidarity and autonomy for working folks living in Appalachia, the South, & other rural & neglected regions of the planet. We'll play folk, dance, and protest music - and beyond, old (1927), new (2023), & in between - in support of oppressed peoples of all the world. This will mostly be a spotlight on local & distant artists that are lesser known or currently under-appreciated. Another focus will be shouting out local grassroots organizations dedicated to these same principles - they're also often lesser known & under-appreciated. What is needed is ACTION - one way we can act is to create & share music - a powerful tool for education & building community. We're gonna explore the intersections & alleged borders between genre, place, & peoples.
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