Songs about the Environment, Pandemic, Leadership, Relationships
Dan Berggren & Dean Friedman have songs about dialogues with their daughters. Dean about war, and Dan focuses on the health of our planet.
One Day (A Child’s Prayer) Hannah & Dean Friedman Originally written for the 1991 Gulf War, the song is relevant now in the midst of one more, senseless, horrific war. Gentle strings and bells adorn a daughter and father duet. She’s seeing children killed from missiles, The father sings that “One day there'll be no trace of war, disease, pollution. If only presidents could see through children’s eyes, if only general could hear the babies’ cries.” Lots of comparisons and contrasts like kids fighting over toys with men fighting over land. For charity info, please visit deanfriedman.bandcamp.com/track/one-day-a-childs-prayer
April Fools Michael Veitch singer songwriter, male
tenor, upbeat folk-rock with electric guitar, with pretty eagles-y harmonies being fooled by leadership in a most rainy
month “behind the curtain lies another strong man. Pick a corrupt event when you have crazy leaders.
The Prism Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius (studio and live versions) dynamic and circular electric violin, male vocals, rock band live recording, song about delusional leaders who lead with stupidity
One more about crazy leaders-- what a woman thinks of crazy guys in the workforce....
My artists offer solutions about improving the environment. Here's a new song from the Slambovian Circus of Dreams and a classic from John Hall.
Beez (I Know Where The Beez Have Gone) Slambovian Circus of Dreams Rock, slow tempo, environment, Americana, vocals like Tom Petty, “Stopped controlling the world,” lyrics offer ideas on how to increase the bees to visit plantlife. “the bees are in my yard, I know where the Beez Have Gone,” “Reteaching me the facts of life” “creatures great and small” chime-y, uses phrase ”yang dang doodle human race”
Power John Hall male tenor, sax, yacht rock sound. “Give me the warm power of the sun” includes wind and water power in lyrics. "take all your atomic poison power away" "everyone needs some power I'm told to shield them from the darkness and the cold, includes line about corruption” “Some may seek to take control when it’s bought and sold.” This song was the theme song to the M.U.S.E. Concerts (Musicians United For Safe Energy) and a top 20 hit in 1979.
A song about the end of the world:
Armageddon Blues John Roy Zat male vocals upbeat w/ swing energy & yodels, fiddle, "everybody's singing the armageddon blues. anybody here know what to do?" keep the music going until... seeing that the world's gonna end, "facebook" and "brew" mentions
Here are a few different ones that have goal setting thoughts or solutions:
Freedom Loving Heart Phoebe Legere gentle coffeehouse folk song, female voice, gentle guitar, "I
got a freedom loving heart, because freedom's got a heart of it own." A
gentle encounter with a lying guy, she sings, "I don't know where to
start"
Divided We Fall Bill Leverty hard rock/classic rock, male vocals, bass, lead guitar, divided we fall, show me the pain, let me inside. Show me the pain in your heart. And if we find common ground….United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Song about mending fences in a way that the man wants to see inside his wounded partner’s soul..
