Episode 38 does a deep dive into the back-story of American environmentalism, tracing the roots of the movement back two centuries to the emergence of industrialization in the early 1800s.  Warren Senders interviews historian Chad Montrie (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) about his work linking labor and environmental causes, with a huge list of song selections dating back to 1837.

Music & Video

"Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
Daniel P. Smith, Jr — Voice & Guitar
Lyrics by George Pope Morris
Music by Henry Russell
(youtube.com/@danielpsmithjr)

Chad Montrie interview
recorded March 13, 2026

"D.D.T. Blues"
George Brunis — Trombone & Voice
Commodore CB-13
"Pay Day At Coal Creek"
Pete Steele — Banjo & Voice
Library Of Congress
Archive of American Folk Song AAFS 68

"The Factory Girls' Come-All-Ye"
Diane Taraz — voice
from "A Silver Dagger - Exploring
Women's History Through Folk Songs"
(www.dianetaraz.com)

"Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"
Composed by Stephen Foster
Losey's Instrumental Quartet
Edison 80679-L

"Friends, think not..."
Anonymous, from "The Voice Of Industry"
October 23, 1946
Read by Sharada Sundaram-Senders

"Po' Black Sheep"
Nathan Frazier — Banjo & Voice
Frank Patterson — Fiddle
from "Altamont: Black Stringband Music
from the Library of Congress"
(Rounder 0238)

"Tim Moore's Farm"
Lightnin' Hopkins — Guitar & Voice
Gold Star Records 640-A
"Bull Frog Blues"  (1928)
William Harris
Gennett 6661

"Barndomshemmet (My Childhood Home)"
Henry Corsell — Voice
Wallin Records WR 109 (1923)
"Jolietcke Deklice (Joliet Girls) Polka"
Daichman Brata in Perush Dance Orchestra
RCA Victor - V-23004-A

"Chicago Buzz"
Junie Cobb & Johnny Dodds
Century 3006/Paramount 12382
"Slievenamon/Dublin Hornpipe"
Johnny McGreevy — Fiddle
Eleanor Kane — Piano
Decca 12062

"The Land of The Noonday Night"
Music by Eleanor Smith
Lyrics by Ernst Howard Crosby
Jocelyn Zelasko — Voice
Amanda Sabelhaus — Piano
from "Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs:
The Music of Protest and Hope in
Jane Addams' Chicago" (Haymarket, 2020)
(hullhousesongs.org)

"Happy Days are Here Again"
The All-Star Troubadours
Van Dyke 81829
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Inaugural Speech
March 4, 1933

Found Footage of
California CCC Camp (1935)

Courtesy YouTube user MutantKitty
"Wood Tick"
William Jamerson — Guitar & Voice
Hedberg Public Library,
Janesville, WI, September 22, 2013
(http://www.billjamerson.com/)

"Cadillac Assembly Line"
Lurrie Bell — Guitar & Voice
JSP Records CD 2134

"We've Gotta Fight Pollution Now"
Joe Lisi — Guitar & Voice
from "It's The UAW All The Way"
LEM Productions ESS-1185

"El Picket Sign"
El Teatro Campesino
from "Rolas de Aztlan:
Songs of the Chicano Movement"
Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40616

"Silent Spring"
Lena Horne — Voice
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Yip Harburg
Stateside Records SS 246

"Silent Spring"
Carmen McRae — Voice
Atlantic 45-2807

"Silent Spring"
Gary Burton Ensemble
Carla Bley — Composer
from "A Genuine Tong Funeral"
RCA Victor LSP-3988

"Rent Strike Blues"
Jimmy Collier — Guitar & Voice
from "We Won't Move:
Songs of the Tenants' Movement"
Folkways Records FS 5287

"Ecology Man"
Danny Boyd and
the Sounds of Young Los Angeles
Soyla 1372, Courtesty SoulMarcosa

"Smog Gets In Your Eyes"
Allan Sherman — Voice
The Ed Sullivan Show,
October 16, 1966

"Mother Earth"
Memphis Slim & The Houserockers
Premium PR-867

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