Here’s show #36 of Chris T-T’s Midnight Campfire, first broadcast on Juice 107.2 FM on Wed 6 May 2015. It was a pre-election show, so the second hour is themed around election songs, which were tough to find – so there’s some odd, obscure choices. The first hour is cracking though. You can listen again HERE and the playlist is here:

Bruce Springsteen – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
(We Shall Overcome, Columbia)
Peatbog Faeries – Jakes On A Plane (Blackhouse, self-release)
The Young’uns – Tom Paine’s Blues (Another Man’s Ground, SGO Music)
Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen – Bottle (Bottle, Navigator)
Rozi Plain – Actually (Friend, Lost Map)
Matthew The Oxx – The Belly Of A Copper (First Aid For The Drowning, Wild Sound)
Aldous Harding – Hunter (Aldous Harding, Lyttelton)
Skerryvore feat. Sharon Shannon – Happy To Be Home (Decade, self-release)
Loudon Wainwright III – Brand New Dance (Haven’t Got The Blues (Yet), Proper)
Papernut Cambridge – I Believe In Love (Nutlets 1962-80, Gare Du Nord)
John Murry – Things We Lost In The Fire (The Graceless Age, Rubyworks)
Tom Robinson – Don’t Jump Don’t Fall (single, self-release)
* Old Crow Medicine Show, Joel Rafael & friends – This Train Is Bound For Glory
(Woody Guthrie: At 100! Live At The Kennedy Centre, Woody Guthrie Publications)

Pete Anthony – West Wing Main Title (Music By W.G. Snuffy Walden, BMG)
Bic Runga – Election Night (Beautiful Collision, Sony)
Will Varley – We Don’t Believe You (Live At The Lighthouse, Xtra Mile Recordings)
Easy Star All-Stars – Electioneering (Radiodread, Easy Star)
The Replacements – Election Day (All For Nothing/Nothing For All, Reprise)
David Rovics – All The News That’s Fit To Sing (All The News That’s Fit To Sing, self-release)
Leonard Cohen – Democracy (The Essential Leonard Cohen, Sony BMG)
Lord Beginner – General Election (London Is The Place For Me Vol 2, Honest Jon’s)
The Citizens Band – I Swung The Election feat. Nina Persson
(Grab A Root And Growl, self-release)
Jeff Beal – House Of Cards Main Title (House Of Cards soundtrack, MRC II/Colosseum)
Blaze Foley – Election Day (Sittin’ By The Road, Lost Art)
James Phillips – Polling Day (Soul Ou, Shifty Records)
Jim Glover – Old Voting Machine (Outsider, self-release)
Oscar Brand – Fair & Free Elections (1800)
(Election Songs Of The United States, Smithsonian Folkways)
Martyn Joseph – Call It Democracy (Kiss The World Beautiful, Pipe Records)
Excellent Gentlemen – Vote For Love (Just Say Yes, self-release)

* this week’s entry to the Campfire Songbook