Be it Nina Simone and James Brown for civil rights, Joni Mitchell and Marvin Gaye for the environment, or Jackson Browne and Buffalo Springfield for nuclear disarmament, musicians have long helped push social movements into the limelight.
1. Xiuhtezcatl
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3424b5a25e7fe0321774d4057fa0f8df"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKUZJjxm9Vs?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Few artists are making music on the climate crisis as vivid and bold as rapper Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martinez — a lifelong environmental activist and a trained <a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training" target="_blank">Climate Reality Leader</a>.</p><p>Take his song "Broken," for example.</p><p>In just one track, he grapples with (at least) three important truths.</p><p>First, the fact that the climate crisis is already taking a devastating toll across the planet:</p><p><em>"While the walls fall and the world burns</em></p><p><em>Seas rise and the clock turns.</em></p><p><em>The earth fighting back with hurricanes</em></p><p><em>And the earthquakes and the pouring rain."</em></p><p>Second, that the climate crisis is an unprecedented intergenerational justice issue:</p><p><em>"How will you look your child in the eyes and tell them</em></p><p><em>Their future wasn't worth fighting for, could've done more but didn't listen</em></p><p><em>Didn't wake up, didn't speak up, didn't fight back when there was still time."</em></p><p>And third, that if we can change as individuals and as a society, there is still hope to avoid the worst of the climate crisis:</p><p><em>"The apathy is so poisonous and it's killing us…</em></p><p><em>Gotta recognize that the change we want in the world has to start inside us…</em></p><p><em>Fight for what we love, start healing the world's hate.</em></p><p><em>Build beauty from the ashes after the world breaks.</em></p>2. Paul McCartney
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="79244f6ce15c222330556bb83bdf4538"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5vDVZNOFMEM?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>In 2018, the legendary Paul McCartney released the album <em>Egypt Station</em>, and with it "Despite Repeated Warnings," a powerful piece that expresses his frustration towards climate inaction.</p><p>As McCartney explained to the <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7197342/paul-mccartney-egypt-station-beatles/" target="_blank">Sun</a>, this song challenges "[T]his idea of: 'It's all gonna be fine, don't worry.' Oh yeah, sure, there are icebergs melting but it doesn't matter because they're not melting in London, so no need to worry."</p><p>What's more, as he goes on to describe, "[T]he person in the song will be symbolic of politicians who argue that climate change is a hoax."</p><p>With lines like "<em>Below decks the engineer cries / The captain's gonna leave us when the temperatures rise / The needle's going up, the engine's gonna blow / And we're gonna be left down below" </em>McCartney gives voice to the danger of putting off climate action any longer.</p>3. Childish Gambino
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="97f36fff57a83c133fab2a9000f12676"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F1B9Fk_SgI0?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>In 2018, actor, hip-hop artist, and all around it-should-be-illegal-to-be-this-talented Donald Glover A.K.A. Childish Gambino released "Feels like Summer." Though lyrics like "<em>You can feel it in the streets/ On a day like this, the heat/ It feel like summer" </em>initially make this feel like a mellow summer tune, a closer look reveals a much different reality:</p><p><em>"Every day gets hotter than the one before</em></p><p><em>Running out of water, it's about to go down"</em></p><p>Of course, the song is actually a sobering wake-up call on the climate crisis. Rising heat and vanishing water aren't all that worry Gambino, though.</p><p><em>"Air that kills the bees that we depend upon</em></p><p><em>Birds were made for singing, waking up to no sound"</em></p><p>As he acknowledges, climate change is already taking a devastating toll on the natural world. Additionally, he repeatedly expresses his lament for our inability to change with the lines:</p><p><em>"Oh, I know you know my pain</em></p><p><em>I'm hoping that this world will change</em></p><p><em>But it just seems the same"</em></p><p>We're with you – this is a full-on climate crisis.</p>4. Jaden Smith
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="aa7021e819812be13091e4ee879c28a4"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5DA-w-_HZLo?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Jaden Smith is another rapper who's been taking on the climate crisis through his music, often teaming up with others to do it.</p><p>Take "Boombox Warfare," an activist's anthem Smith made with Xiuhtezcatl (see above).</p><p>With lines like, "<em>If I fly as a butterfly in my dream, or a bumblebee / As we going extinct, will we still live on in eternity</em>,<em>" </em>Jaden makes us consider the impact of the climate crisis on the natural world and, specifically, on increasingly threatened wildlife.</p><p>Be it through his music or through separate activism, there's no doubt Smith shows what it means to #LeadOnClimate.</p>5. Billie Eilish
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a0fb1b8c7574b268391fc5904ead3054"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-PZsSWwc9xA?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Teen superstar and Grammy Award-sweeping phenomenon Billie Eilish is another prominent voice calling on the world to wake up.</p><p>Though her activist spirit might show in <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/we-are-in-a-climate-emergency-billie-eilish-and-woody-harrelson-post-video-urging-viewers-to-take-action-2552155" target="_blank">many ways</a>, there's no question one of the clearest is through her music. Take her song "All the Good Girls Go to Hell."</p><p>Really, just a few lines into the song make it clear that this eerie chart-topper is about our warming world and the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/climate-change-500-percent-increase-california-wildfires/594016/" target="_blank">climate-fueled wildfires</a> in her home state.</p><p>"<em>Hills burn in California.</em></p><p><em>My turn to ignore ya.</em></p><p><em>Don't say I didn't warn ya.</em>"</p><p>And just in case the lyrics left any doubt, the video features a winged, petroleum-covered Eilish burning.</p>6. Neil Young
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e944c8c828d1ecb6e81865838b15030b"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bHUFBXnn16w?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Throughout his multi-decade career, Neil Young has never been one to shy away from environmental activism. Regardless, it's still exciting to see the legendary guitarist take on climate so directly today.</p><p>Just last October he released <em>Colorado</em>, an album lamenting the climate crisis and issuing an aggressive call for action.</p><p>As just one example, "Green is Blue" is a mournful ballad about how much time has gone by since we first learned that our planet was warming.</p><p><em>"We heard the warning calls.</em></p><p><em>Ignored them.</em></p><p><em>We watched the weather change.</em></p><p><em>We saw the fires and floods.</em></p><p><em>We saw the people rise</em></p><p><em>Divided.</em></p><p><em>We fought each other</em></p><p><em>While we lost our coveted prize."</em></p><p>As the song "Shut it Down" shows, however, he's not waiting around any longer and has hope for the future.</p><p>Lines like <em>"When I look at the future / I see hope for you and me / Have to shut the whole system down" </em>make one thing clear: Young believes that we <em>can</em> still act in time.</p>7. Foals
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c7db983820de11c56ca72a6009162b08"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTHmJ1gol9c?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>English rock band FOALS is quickly becoming one of the most notorious climate advocates in the music industry.</p><p>To see why, you don't have to look much further than <em>Everything Not Saved Will Be Los</em>t, an album simultaneously full of electrifying anthems and bold environmental advocacy.</p><p>Just take the music video for the song "Like Lightning," where a furry protagonist wakes up society to its mindless destruction of the planet, capturing the band's climate concern and distaste for rampant consumerism.</p>8. Lana Del Rey
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e76f64c5ded3836bf9aa021b532feddd"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ndo8r_Hg_lg?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Lana Del Rey is another high-profile artist that's making climate change a central theme in her music — and many critics are entirely here for it.</p><p>Pitchfork Music, for example, recently granted her song "The Greatest" — a ballad that yearns for a simpler past — the number-two spot in its list of the <a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2019/" target="_blank">100 best tracks of 2019</a>.</p><p>As the Pitchfork <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/the-greatest/" target="_blank">review</a> describes, "In Lana Del Rey's latest song 'The Greatest,' an entire generation is burned out. The world is getting hotter. Hope is a dwindling resource. We don't have much time left… Lana's songs have always sounded like lonely missives from the end of the world with a beachside view; the difference is now we're watching the clock tick down alongside her."</p><p>Much like Billie Eilish, Del Rey sings of California's growing fires. Towards the end of the song she wistfully sings "<em>L.A.'s in flames, it's getting hot… 'Life on Mars' ain't just a song</em>".</p><p>Del Rey knows what profound changes the climate crisis is bringing and wants us to know it too.</p>9. The Climate Music Project
<p>Who says all climate change songs have to have lyrics?</p><p>Really, some of the most thought-provoking music addressing this crisis today is entirely instrumental.</p><p>To see how that's possible look no further than the Climate Music Project: a San Francisco group that takes real climate data to produce what could be considered the sound of climate change.</p><p>As the group's founder Stephan Crawford explained to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/science/climate-change-music-sound.html" target="_blank">the <em>New York Times</em></a>, "Music is really visceral… Listening to a composition is an active experience, not just a passive one. It can make climate change feel more personal and inspire people to take action."</p><p>Snippets of the Climate Music Project's work can be found at <a href="https://climatemusic.org/our-music/#climate" target="_blank">climatemusic.org/our-music/#climate</a>.</p>10. Bon Iver
<p>Bon Iver, a band whose very name is derived from the French for "good winter," is understandably distressed by our warming world.</p><p>In "Jelmore," from the 2019 album <em>I,I</em> singer Justin Vernon wrestles with the failures of world leaders to see the danger right outside our window, asking, <em>"How long? / Will you disregard the heat?"</em>.</p>Join the Fight for Our Climate
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By Emer McHugh
Popular music has, and always will be, informed by the political and social contexts from which it emerges.
Pixies "Monkey Gone To Heaven"
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8a87407baca01bcd081d2a7e1e8aae0c"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mK3iSglbZUM?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Very late into her latest album "Titanic Rising," Natalie Mering AKA <a href="http://www.weyesblood.com/" target="_blank">Weyes Blood</a> sings "don't cry, it's a wild time to be alive" and I am not sure if I have found any other lyric this year that encapsulates so perfectly what it is to live in 2019. We are halfway through the Trump administration, and global right-wing politics continues to be on the rise with the election of Boris Johnson. Brexit is looming, with no clear plan as of writing.</p><p>More pertinently for what I am writing today, we are in the middle of a climate emergency. <a href="http://twitter.com/GretaThunberg" target="_blank">Greta Thunberg</a> has become the face of a worldwide movement to save the planet before it is too late. <a href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro" target="_blank">Jair Bolsonaro's</a> fascist regime has <a href="https://time.com/5662395/bolsonaro-reject-g7-pledge-amazon-fires/" target="_blank">refused funding</a> to save the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The U.S. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-withdraws-paris-agreement/579733/" target="_blank">withdrew</a> from the Paris Agreement two years ago (and remember the Secretary of State <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson" target="_blank">Rex Tillerson</a> was the CEO of <a href="http://exxonmobil.com/" target="_blank">ExxonMobil</a>).</p><p>Online and in real life, people are talking about how to reduce their carbon footprint, and how to put pressure on corporations to do the same. The fear that the earth might not be what it is now in 12 years' time is all too real. To paraphrase a more-than-30-year-old song, it could be the end of the world as we know it. Do we feel fine? Probably not.</p>It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9154f16faa83d8a97649be04eb889043"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8OyBtMPqpNY?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Mering has made it clear that "Titanic Rising" as a title references the oncoming impact of climate change and the cover of the album depicts her in a bedroom submerged under water. <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/2038017/weyes-blood-titanic-rising-interview-underwater-cover/franchises/interview/" target="_blank">Speaking to Stereogum</a>, she argued that "the waters have risen over this bedroom which to me is symbolic of kind of a subconscious altar that all young people in western culture create for themselves. I'm not drowning in it. I'm alive." </p><p>However, the uncanny sight of Mering nonchalantly floating around her bedroom arguably shows adjusting to irreversible change. In the same interview, Mering asserted that "at the expense of the third class, we'd been kind of fucking with people, and industrialization hasn't really conquered nature in any real way. Nature is about to conquer our ass, and industrialization is not gonna be able to keep up with that." </p><p>As such, songs such as "Wild Time" conjure up images of industrialization and nature juxtaposed with one another. Mering sings of the planet as "beauty, a machine that's broken/Running on a million people trying," she swaps "trying" for the more troubling image of "a million people burning" in the second verse. Time is running out, or, to borrow the title of the song that opens the album, "A Lot's Gonna Change." "Falling trees, get off your knees/No one can keep you down," Mering sings, "if your friends and your family/Sadly don't stick around/It's by time you'll learn to get by."</p>Titanic Rising
<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:53VKICyqCf91sVkTdFrzKX" id="966fc" frameborder="0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3b7daceac90b08cb4adc34a64b2553d6" expand="1" height="480" width="100%"></iframe><p>Other releases this year have also addressed similar concerns. The electronic group <a href="http://vague-terrain.com/" target="_blank">Matmos</a>, who experiment with creating music with raw materials, created <a href="https://matmos.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">"Plastic Anniversary"</a><em> </em>using solely plastic objects. The band <a href="https://pitchfork.com/news/matmos-announce-new-album-plastic-anniversary/" target="_blank">highlighted</a> "the world's relationship to plastic – a material whose durability, portability and longevity, while heralded by its makers, are the very qualities that make it a force of environmental devastation."</p><p>This summer, <a href="https://the1975.com/" target="_blank">The 1975</a> released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcfzAfuFyE" target="_blank">a self-titled single</a> featuring a speech by Thunberg, as she intoned "everything needs to change. And it has to start today. So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel." Conversely, <a href="https://www.grimesmusic.com/" target="_blank">Grimes</a> announced the upcoming concept album "Miss Anthropocene," which will personify climate change as a supervillain, <a href="https://www.papermag.com/grimes-climate-change-villain-2634812058.html" target="_blank">stating</a> that "climate change sucks and no one wants to read about it because the only time you hear about it is when you're getting guilted. I wanted to make climate change fun."</p>Lana Del Rey - Fuck It I Love You & The Greatest (Official Video)
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5c2866f04e21aed96134deec4ee788a4"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LrSX_OcpeJg?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>This all-too-contemporary apocalyptic anxiety crystallises in <a href="https://lanadelrey.com/" target="_blank">Lana Del Rey's </a>"The Greatest" in comparison to Mering, Del Rey seems resigned to things continuing as they are towards destruction. The refrain of "the culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball" is characteristically deadpan, but "lit" functions with an obvious double purpose here too.</p><p>Towards its muted conclusion, Del Rey softly sings a coda that seems like a news report from the end of the world: "Hawaii just missed a fireball/L.A. is in flames, it's getting hot/Kanye West is blond and gone/'Life on Mars' ain't just a song/Oh, the livestream's almost on." As Jenn Pelly remarked in a recent Pitchfork review, <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell/" target="_blank">call her Doris Doomsday</a>. It <em>is </em>a wild time to be alive, and contemporary music knows it. Expect more of the same in the next six to twelve months.</p>- Rapper and Comedian Lil Dicky Recruits 30+ Artists Including ... ›
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Martin Guitar, one of the world's top acoustic guitar manufacturers based in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, has been run by the same family for six generations, since its founding in 1833. But its long business history hasn't stopped C.F. Martin & Co from trying new things.
On Monday, Martin Guitar was recognized by the Department of Energy (DOE) for its success at rapidly improving energy efficiency, a DOE press release reported.
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'Music Is Our Universal Language': Celebrities Unite on Climate Action at Carnegie Hall Concert
Pathway to Paris gave voice to the urgent issue of climate change on Sunday night at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the launch of its 1000 Cities initiative and the organization's three years of environmental advocacy. Founded by Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon, Pathway to Paris orchestrated the event in partnership with the UN Development Programme and 350.org—bringing together a collection of artists, activists, academics, musicians, politicians and innovators to shine a light on 1000 Cities' imperative mission, supported by a Care2 petition which invites the world's cities to transition off of fossil fuels in a call to action.
The evening opened with powerful speeches and performances by Pathway to Paris founders and curators of the evening, Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon, encapsulating the essence of Pathway to Paris. "Climate change is our unifying global concern," said Jesse Paris Smith. "It breaks down and defines the geographical borders and walls we have created, it unifies us all and urges us to realize our collective voice."
Trevor Hall: Awakening Your Spiritual Consciousness ... a Powerful Form of Activism
I'm a huge Trevor Hall fan so when I saw he was playing in my hometown of Cleveland, I was stoked. I knew seeing the show would be fantastic, but I was also thinking an interview with Trevor would be something really cool to give EcoWatch readers. So, lucky enough, I was offered an interview and was able to hop on my paddleboard from Whiskey Island on the shore of Lake Erie, head up the Cuyahoga River and get to the Music Box Supper Club just in time to chat with Trevor before the show.
"My dad was a drummer, so most my musical influence comes from my dad," Trevor said during our nearly hour interview. "Growing up, my dad had this CD collection in the hallway and I was always fascinated by all the CDs. My hobby was pulling out a CD that looked cool and I'd put it on the stereo and pretend I was rocking out. My dad was really into The Doobie Brothers, Allman Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, Simply Red, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young."
Spotify and AccuWeather have teamed up to create a feature called Climatune, which produces playlists customized to your weather and location. To create Climatune, AccuWeather and Spotify carried out a year-long study from November 2015 to November 2016, analyzing data from more than 1,000 weather stations around the globe and 85 billion anonymous Spotify streams.
If your town or city is having a cloudy day, Climatune will present a playlist called, "What [your city name] listens to when it's cloudy." Spotify used a music intelligence platform called The Echo Nest to analyze the acoustic attributes and moods of songs associated with weather conditions, such as clouds, sun, wind, rain and snow.
"There is a clear connection between what's in the skies and what's on users' play queues," Spotify data researcher, Ian Anderson, said.
Some of the trends discovered are intuitive, such as sunny days typically leading to upbeat music choices and rainy days leading to lower-energy and sadder sounds. But, some interesting localized trends were also revealed. For example, when it rains, people living in Chicago were found to play happy music while those from Houston were 121 percent more likely to choose acoustic music. GeekWire explained that Seattle prefers rap when it rains and "clouds in Paris apparently make people like Coldplay."
For a deeper look at the data driving Climatune, check out this Spotify Insights post with a series of graphs showing how the weather in different cities affected audio attributes such as acousticness, energy and bounciness. Users can also select weather icons within Climatune to explore the soundtracks of locations having different weather from their own. For example, selecting the sun might take you to Madrid's page to hear, "Ride," by Twenty One Pilots.
Steven Smith, president of digital media at AccuWeather, said Climatune is "another innovative, engaging way that AccuWeather personalizes the weather so people can improve their lives." AccuWeather has a billion daily users. Spotify has 100 Million users and 40 million of them pay for its ad-free premium subscriptions. You can try out Climatune's customized weather playlist for your location here.
It's common knowledge that tree rings provide insight to the Earth's history, but now they can also provide music.
Artist Bartholomaus Traubeck invented a record player that reads the texture and color variations of a cross section of a tree trunk and interprets them as music. Each tree has its own unique rings, and, therefore, its own unique song hidden inside, opening the door for a whole new music industry: tree music.
The music found in the tree trunks has a beautiful, almost classical air to it.
Watch Traubeck's video to listen to the eerie sound:
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Rising up on the folk-rock charts, New York City-based "Metrobilly" band 2/3 Goat has just released a foot-stomping, evocative and inspiring video performance from their breakthrough new CD, Stream of Conscience.
Featuring lead singer/mandolin player Annalyse McCoy, whose golden pipes resound from the hollers with the haunting beauty and power of a young Shawn Colvin and Patty Loveless, Stream of Conscience is an acoustic-driven foggy mountain breakdown that chronicles the ravages of mountaintop removal operations in the Appalachian hills. A reckless strip mining process that has destroyed more than 300 mountains and 600,000 acres of hardwood forests in McCoy's native eastern Kentucky region alone, mountaintop removal operations throughout central Appalachia have led to a humanitarian crisis of large-scale water contamination, entrenched unemployment, cancer corridors and birth defects, and the largest forced removal of American citizens since the 19th century.
"Music is such an integral part of Appalachian culture and tradition," said McCoy, who grew up in Inez, Kentucky and also works as an actress in New York City. " As a child of Appalachia, I felt that there was no better or more natural way to "give back" to try and help my community than through song. Amid all the destruction that mountaintop removal causes—all the thousands of miles of streams that have been buried, all the remaining water that's been tainted by heavy metals—there is purity and light left in Appalachia; there is Hope."
Flanked by cowriter, singer and guitar player Ryan Dunn, whose confident bluesy licks add a natural Johnny Cash resonance to McCoy's June Carter, and talented fiddler Ryan Guerra, 2/3 Goat's new CD was recorded by famed Gin Blossoms producer Chris Mara at the Welcome to 1979 Studios in Nashville.
"Coal has been king for over a hundred years in Appalachia," the band posted on their website. "Taking rock from under the ground is one thing; but blowing up mountains, burying thousands of miles of freshwater streams, inciting flooding in areas where it's never been a problem, and causing the highest cancer rates in the nation from industry runoff is another. Mountaintop removal also takes away more and more jobs from an area that desperately needs them. It's time we take a stand. Our song and music video Stream of Conscience are focused on this very topic. Appalachia is Rising!"
The Stream of Conscience single was featured last week on AOL Music's top charts.
Here's the video:
Alongside the beloved Grammy star Kathy Mattea, Loveless and Emmylou Harris, 2/3 Goat joins other great folk, country and rock acts in the long-time campaign to end mountaintop removal.
"Writing this song, I envisioned the People, this light, flowing down like the cleanest water you'll ever drink; a Stream of Conscience, descending on the industry that's dealt them such a terrible hand, saying, "We will no longer be poisoned!" McCoy said. "I can't wait for that day."
Here's another video performance of 2/3 Goat's version of Darrell Scott's classic, "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive":