Watch Episode 27 of Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet starts out with a song about ordinary Americans banding together this month to celebrate No Kings Day. But most of the show will be focused on the disparity between the obvious importance of food and farming, to the struggles that farmers have faced every day for over a century – from sharecroppers to struggling family farms, to the plight and heroism of Hispanic farmworkers in today’s fields. Along the way we’ll hear short clips from an interview with Michael Grunwald, author of We Are Eating the Earth, sharing a new perspective on the perils of global farming.
Cool Tunes for a Hot Planet Produced By
Jack Cochran
Pamela Falkenberg
Purly Rae Gates
Seth Handelman
James Kahn
Harriet Jerusha Korim
Mark Lagerwey
Warren Senders
SONG CREDITS – EPISODE 27: Food, Farm & Freedom
Podcast Theme: “Reggae March” (aka STOP NOW intro) ©1985 Rick Arnoldi (BMI)
Daryl Lowery, sax
Tom Beaver, keyboards, trumpet, flugelbone
Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq, bass
Roscoe Hamer, drums
Rick Arnoldi, guitar, producer
Paul Arnold, engineer
Recorded at Newbury Sound, Boston, 1985
Spoken Welcome: Purly Rae Gates
Indivisible
© 2025 Claudia Schmidt
Claudia Schmidt: Vocals, 12 String Guitar
The Farmer Is The Man (Who Feeds Us All)
Trip McCool
A song from the 1800s from the Carl Sandburg book “The American Songbag”.
Performed, interpreted and adapted: Dennis Dougherty
Additional lyrics by Dennis Dougherty and Tom Isern.
Dennis Dougherty: Guitars, vocals, percussion, bass, mandolin
Charlyn Dougherty: Accordion
Andrew Marlin: Banjo
Recording Engineer: Connor Dougherty
Down On Penny’s Farm
The Bently Boys
1929 Johnson City, Tennessee
From Harry Smith’s ‘Anthology of American Folk Music: Ballads’
Pastures of Plenty/This Land Is Your Land
Lila Downs
Author, Producer, Associated Performer, Voices, Composer: Lila Downs
Associated Performer: Celso Duarte
Bass Guitar, Associated Performer: Chuco Mendoza
Keyboards, Associated Performer, Producer, Tenor Saxophone, Composer, Author: Paul Cohen
Voices, Associated Performer, Conga: Carlos “Poppis” Tovar
Featured artist, Associated Performer, Electric Guitar: Ken Basman
Mixer, Studio Personnel: Jean B. Smit
Mastering Engineer, Studio Personnel: Trevor Sadler
Producer: Aneiro Taño
Associated Performer: Carlos “Pelusa” Rivarola
Author, Composer: Woody Guthrie
Michael Grunwald: Interview With Warren Senders, October 13, 2025
‘No Kings’ Video Footage: Recorded around mid-day at the Lexington Battle Ground, Lexington, MA
Podcast Host: Warren Senders
Intern: Janelle Chang
Video/ Audio Support:
Outlier Moving Pictures – Pam Falkenberg and Jack Cochran
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