With today’s hot political climate there have been many new topical songs written. This week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine we’ll sample some recent topical music from Joe Jencks, Fred Gillen, Jr, John McCutcheon, Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt, Harpeth Rising and many more. I think you will see Topical Song is alive and well and thriving in these heady times. Hear some of the best on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Mandolinman / “Polka Antwerp” / Unfolding the Roots / ARC
Scott Cook / “Further Down the Line” / Further Down the Line / Self Produced
Joe Jencks / “Let Me Sing You a Song” / Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers / Turtle Bear
Emma’s Revolution / “Sing People Sing” / Revolution Now / Moving Forward

Beth DeSombre / “She Persisted” / Resistance / Self Produced
Harpeth Rising / “535 (Are You Even Alive)” / Against All Tides / Self Produced
Janie Barnett & Blue Room / “Buy That Thing” / You See This River / Minor Regret
Mandolinman / “Contradans Ghent in A minor” / Unfolding the Roots / ARC

Carrie Elkin / “American Tune” / The Penny Collector / Self Produced
Fred Gillen, Jr. / “Future Americans” / What She Said / DYS
John McCutcheon / “Y’all means All” / Trolling for Dreams / Appalsong
Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes / “Tear Down the Fences” / Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes / Community Music

Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt / “Jamaica’s Tree” / We Are Welcomed / Pragmavision
Tom Paxton / “Hitch to my Gitalong” / Boat in the Water / Pax Records
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways