Folk: Political and Mood: Funny

NEW YORK UKULELE ENSEMBLE: Ukulele Street
Subversively seductive novelty music by the planet's finest all ukulele band.
CD price: $12.96 / MP3 price: $12.96

CHRIS CHANDLER: Collaborations
travel 80,000 miles. visit dar williams, catie curtis, dan bern, ellis paul, marty sexton, the austin lounge lizards, mike west, peter yarrow, jim's big ego & more. record a folken word piece with each of them. whoah.
MP3 price: $14.99

THE SONS-IN LAW OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE UTAH PIONEERS: Olympvs Rex And Other Greek Tragedies In Utah
Political and cultural satire to music. Targets: Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Olympics, Aryan Nations, BLM, and Bugs
Recommended if you like Tom Lehrer.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00

ROY ZIMMERMAN: Thanks for the Support
Satirical songs in the Tom Lehrer tradition - funny songs about ignorance, war and greed.
Recommended if you like Tom Lehrer.MP3 price: $16.00

AUDREY AULD MEZERA: Lost Men and Angry Girls
It's 'Ameri-kinda' music - traditional American Country and Folk influences with Australian roots; a beautiful mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation. Producer Bill Chambers retains the sparse arrangements that characterise Mezera’s work
CD price: $20.00

CHARLES MURRAY: What's Next?
Welcome to Charles Murray's sacred cow barbecue resplendent with dense imagery, riotous humor, and laser chainsaw massacres, replete with thoughtful, yet artfully decadent, surprises on every cut.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

ROY ZIMMERMAN: Homeland
Hilarious satirical songs on post-9/11 politics, Old Hippies, Arnold Schwartznegger, pedophile priests, etc.
Recommended if you like Tom Lehrer, Phil Ochs.CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99

ROY ZIMMERMAN: Security
Hilarious satirical songs on post-9/11 politics, globalization, weapons systems, Swedes, Norwegians, etc. (companion album to "Homeland")
Recommended if you like Tom Lehrer, Phil Ochs.CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99

PETER ALSOP & FRIENDS: Ebenezer's Make Over
In this "Classics for Grown-Ups" CD, kid's songwriter Peter Alsop goes back to his roots and mixes powerful songs from the feminist men's and women's movements with elements of Firesign theater zaniness, CBS Radio Mystery Theater drama, and his own engagi
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

BRUCE LESNICK: Firestorm
Original protest songs, with guitar work, harmonies and humor that let it go down easy.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00

DR. SAM & THE MANAGED CARE BLUES BAND: Goin' Bare
Parody and original blues tunes having fun with issues related to over-zealous litigation.
CD price: $19.95 / MP3 price: $19.95

PETE LEVIN & WAYNE LAMMERS: GOP Party Monsters
Political satire from the far (out) left - skewering Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Coulter, Ashcroft, O'Reilly, Condoleezza, Spitzer & more with an eclectic array of songs and richly underscored spoken word.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $8.00

THE BROTHERS DOUG: Chronicles of Babylon
Funny folk
Recommended if you like Tom Lehrer.CD price: $16.00

BUCK & LEE: Big As Yer Head
Novelty comedy duo Buck & Lee take you into a hilarious, whacked worldview with songs about potatoes, bag ladies, pirates, dancing chickens, and spectacular motorcycle accidents; a gut-busting and powerful debut CD peppered with comic irony.
CD price: $6.99

DAVID GANS AND THE BROKEN ANGELS: Monica Lewinsky
Funny song about the attempted hijacking of democracy by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00

DAVID POLANSKY: Hannukah Tarantella
A hilarious, clever, non-traditional musical celebration of the Jewish festival of lights.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00

GAYLEN YOUNG: DESERT STORM
up beat country novelty songs about my experiances in the U.S. Army in 1991,In the Persion Gulf.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00

JEFF MOXCEY: Lots of Moxcey
The songs on the CD are funny comedy songs in a country/folk style of music. Catchy, cute and humorous, like the songs they would play on Dr. Demento. One of the songs has been played on the Bob and Tom Show and on The Dr. Demento Show.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

ROY ZIMMERMAN: Comic Sutra
Hilarious satirical songs on subjects ranging from gay marriage to greed to lust to branding as a fashion trend.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99

DANA LYONS: Cows With Guns
The original "Cows with Guns" album includes one comedy song ("Cows") and ballads and love songs, including "Willie Says," "My Country" and "Prayer For This Land."
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95

DANA LYONS: Cows With Guns: The Cow Pie Nation Cowpilation
A compilation of Dana's first three albums containing radio hits "Cows With Guns" and "RV."
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95

LISA ROGERS: Let's Put A Folksinger in the White House
Think of this as 69 minutes of folk music for regime change by a long-time Lone Star lesbian lampoon artist.

ERIC SCHWARTZ: Pleading the First: Songs My Mother Hates
Zappa meets Lehrer Meets Weird Al Meets topics like Bill Clinton, Matthew Shepherd, the Peanuts and Weed.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00

ROY ZIMMERMAN: Faulty Intelligence
Funny songs about ignorance, war and greed
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99

PHIL VAN TEE: Politicians Are High In Protein (Use Them To Feed The Homeless)
This bizarre and decidedly unique comic/storyteller/and "Grim Banjoer" presents humorous old timey (pre-bluegrass) Appalachian style folk music with incredibly clever, biting, and goofy original lyrics.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

LAVA TOAD: lava toad
Satirical folk music (acoustic guitar and voice), described by one fan as "essentially punk rock." Christians often find our biblical accuracy upsetting.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

AL LEE WYER: Blue Skies in a Red State
The Christian Right will never be the same. The hate mail is coming in droves. Fat women,(bigger is better) Gay men, Religous nuts, Republican Virgins, and those who are alphabeticaly challenged yet refuse to use spell check. US
Recommended if you like Paul Simon, Allan Sherman.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

JEFF PARISH: homemade blues
New blues, poetic lyrics, and some old blues and jazz standards with killer band.
CD price: $20.00

LOCAL ANXIETY: Forgive Us We're Canadian
COMEDY -- Smart, satirical, silly and environmentally friendly -- Local Anxiety barbecues sacred cows, even mad ones. .
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97

JOHN EWBANK: Stark Raving Songs
Songs that rock and rave and roar and make you laugh out loud, great rhythms, high energy, melodies that stick in the head and choruses that make you want to listen over and over.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Shel Silverstein.CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $12.95

JONI MINSTREL: Joni Minstrel & The Revolution Against Monarchs
The Village Protest Singer of the Georgia Renaissance Festival, combining traditional folk with 60s-style protest and her own witty originals. Tongue firmly planted in cheek.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00

SEXYSEXY JOE LAVELLE: The Juicebox EP
Comedy and Rock n' Roll, Lavelle Rocks the Funny like the Funny ain't never been Rocked before.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00

GLICK & PHILLIPS: (Sorta Live !) Volume One - Laughter is the Best Medicine
Musical duets and parodies about "Medicine" and other topics by two recovering physicians on the cutting edge.

GLICK & PHILLIPS: (Sorta Live!) Volume Two - Songs of Rockingham County
Musical duets and parodies about politicians, events and places with a few "normal" songs thrown in, by two recovering physicians on the cutting edge.

CLOWNFISH: I Told You This Would Happen
War, injustice, general decline of the nation, and all the rest of the crud these guys are throwing at us.
CD price: $7.77 / MP3 price: $7.77

COSY SHERIDAN: Botox Tango
A very funny female songwriter - acoustic satire with guitar, bass, and piano.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97

SHERWIN LINTON & FRIENDS: It Happened In America
Music Americaca is truly defined in this collection of topical, truthful, and satirical songs laced with humor. Timely, controversial subject matter, experienced over six decades, as seen through Linton's eyes.
Recommended if you like Junior Brown, Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings.CD price: $14.95

DAN REICH & FRIENDS: Bigger Is Better
Muckraking country...wry commentary on our culture in various flavors of rootsy Americana
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99

SHEILA AND JESSIE: Music from the Hills
Old-time string band sound, with sometimes funny lyrics reflecting Sheila and Jessie's lives as 70's back-to-the-landers.
Recommended if you like Alice, Hazel & Alice.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97

ANNE FEENEY & CHRIS CHANDLER: Live from the Wholly Stolen Empire
Folken Word rendered by Chris Chandler ("this man is dangerous" ... Washington Post)and Anne Feeney ("the best labor singer in North America" ... Utah Phillips).

ANNE FEENEY: Have You Been to Jail for Justice?
The soundtrack from the riot... hum along to the revolution... 20 tracks of hellraising music... Emma Goldman would be dancing to this one.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99

ANNE FEENEY & CHRIS CHANDLER: Flying Poetry Circus
"The most creatively radical act on the coffee house circuit" according to the Boston Herald, spoken word genius Chris Chandler joins forces with acclaimed hellraiser Anne Feeney to create "folken word."

TIM WEEMS: Too Many Paint Chips
Ambitious folk, ranging from comical to earnest, combining social and personal themes.
Recommended if you like Adam Sandler, Woody Guthrie.CD price: $16.99

BRUCE LESNICK: It's All Relative
Folk guitar at its best, replete with politics and humor.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00

JYM MOONEY: East Side Guy
Witty and insightful songs celebrating the joys and ironies of life with warmth and humor.
CD price: $15.00

SCAMBOOTY: Please...No Dancing
Funny. Scambooty just makes you laugh out loud with their skewed look at life. The songs are all original and deal with lawsuits, people in the news and even the joys of safe sex.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95

GREG PARENT: Chicken Lip Soup
Now, Ladies and gentlemen, from the twisted mind of Greg Parent, I present to you: Chicken Lip Soup. Yes, anything goes and nothing is sacred. Supressing your urges will make you crazy.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00

JERRY ERNST: The Adventures of Billy Barlow
Completely authentic Civil War party songs, with some tear jerkers for good measure. The quintessential Civil War campfire collection.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00




