Songs of April 2022

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unofficial playlist for NPR All Songs Considered - most recent shows first, until Bob Boilen retired in 2023 - gaps for the earlier shows will be filled over time

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Far from a Mind

From the album "Respect Existence of Expect Resistance" out now: www.kleebenally.com.

Lyrics:

The weather changes moods and pages
with the urge to burn with all the love we rage with
It was in November or maybe September, no it was October and the lines were drawn

Chorus:
Fall shadows hold the dawn
I've always wondered which side you on

Hold these hands through these iron gates
we’ll whisper secrets that don’t translate
"stars above the clouded sky never forgot just how to shine"

Chorus

Well map it out like the stars… with lines in the sand we carve
The wind will carry these words till the end
for the next and the next generation

Chorus

Weather Changes

Fire Escape

Wolves of My Want

Oh God

2005

Feelings Meeting

I Was Neon

CRASH COURSE

These Are The Good Old Days

Blessing

Forever Young

Whales

Nothing Special

In The Thick of It

Greatest Weapon / Under The Water

Under The Water

Thanksgiving 1915

"Fears We Hold" follows lead singer Ian's personal journey about all the every-day anxiety he's dealt with due to having been born without a thumb on his right hand nor an ear on his right side. Humans are weird, and we always choose to hang onto negative feelings when we should just let go and embrace our differences. It's a song all about embracing what makes you different and unique, and no longer fearing the outcome.

Fears We Hold

Check For Signs Of Life

Fallout

Old Note

Careful Let's Sleepwalk

In The Garden, By The Weeds

Empty Things

Somewhere In The Middle

Vampire Empire / Born For Loving You

Vampire Empire

Free Love

LIGHT$ N CAMERA$ FEAT. NEVAD BRAVE

NORTH$IDEBABY - NO LUV $ONG

Hip Hop Caucus, creator of People’s Climate Music, has partnered with Taboo, solo Hip Hop artist and member of the Grammy Award-winning pop group Black Eyed Peas, to debut “Stand Up/Stand N Rock”. This song and video were created in support of the Standing Rock Reservation and the Sioux Tribe, as they lead a peaceful, powerful, and diverse movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (NODAPL). 

Song produced by Printz Board.

Video directed and edited by Johnny Lee, filmed by Baxter Stapelton and includes actress and Divergent series star Shailene Woodley; artists: TABOO of Black Eyed Peas, Tony Duncan (flute), Perry Cheevers (intro/native chant), PJ Vegas (hook), Kahara Hodges (hook), Emcee One (2nd verse), Drezus (2nd verse/pos-hook), Supaman (bridge) Gerald Danforth (bridge), Spencer Battiest (last verse), Doc Battiest (last verse), and MC My (verse), Martin Sensmeier, Bethany Yellowtail, Lehi Thunder Voice Eagle, Shalene Joseph, Temryss Lane, Gina Tiger, Indigenous Enterprise, and Jukasa Media Group. Additional footage provided by Heather Rae, Stacey Thunder, Ben Dupris, and Cody Lucich - Thank u all for Standing Up 4 Standing Rock.

Stand Up/Stand N Rock

From Klee's forthcoming album "The Unsustainable Sessions," out November 26, 2019. Now available for pre-order via digital download or compact disk at www.kleebenally.bandcamp.com. The Unsustainable Sessions is Klee’s second acoustic album and features twelve songs that dig deep into contemporary Indigenous conflicts.

LYRICS:
if this is the season to harvest
we harvest what we have grown
our teethe like daggers
our nails sharpened on stone

our enemies surround us
there is a symmetry in this cycle
the land and the seasons
are weapons of our survival
 
in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?
 
we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
like thousands of arrows, lightening crashing down
we’ve gone to war with empty hands before
with darkness and mother earth, we stand this sacred ground…

in this war there are more than two sides
can’t you see the the blood in my eyes?

The Unsustainable Sessions

Blood In My Eyes

Quinn Christopherson is an Ahtna Athabascan and Iñupiaq songwriter, born, raised, and based in Anchorage, Alaska.