The CooP: Fast Folk Musical Magazine (May 1982, Vol.1, No. 4): The Political Song Revisited

Tom Intondi, Frank Christian, “Charlie” Chin, Martha Roberts, Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy and others gather to sing about anything from the CIA to Jerusalem to Fidel Castro. The political song genre is ideally set up to reflect conflicts and political opinions of each generation. “We live in a society that must be drastically changed if we are going to survive; if we are not to lose a nuclear war (and there are only losers in that war) or if we are not to lose the ecological war.” Many might think that this statement is a reaction to current twenty-first century events: funny that Jack Hardy should have written this about his frustrations in 1982. This compilation includes a Forbert-Hardy version of “This Land Is Your Land.”

Track Listing

101	I Am Your Child	Tom Intondi	04:31
102	Unemployment Rag	Frank Christian	03:29
103	Rock Springs, Wyoming	Charlie Chin	03:10
104	F-4 Phantom	Alph Edwards	02:15
105	Incident at Ebenezer Creek	Matt Jones and Ruth Ariston	04:31
106	Do You Need This Heart of Mine	Pete Gardner	03:14
107	Holy Jerusalem	Martha P. Hogan	04:50
201	I Sliced Pastrami for the CIA and Found God	Sherwood Ross	03:06
202	Greenland Wahle Fisheries / Call Me the Whale	Geoff Kaufman	05:15
203	White Buffalo	Judy Dunleavy	05:22
204	This Land Is Your Land	Steve Forbert and Jack Hardy	04:40