A brand-new collection of songs & stories focusing on Good Food & the Green Earth. This connection, where nutrition & the environment come together, opens up a big & rich & fun corner of our modern world.

14 MP3 Songs in this album (45:19) !
Related styles: Kids/Family: General Children's Music, Kids/Family: Educational, Mood: Fun

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Track #1. Farmerâs Market Good: I am a huge fan of local markets that become a âfarm once a week in your neighborhood.â Yup, theyâre âgood for your breakfast, good for your lunch, good for your dinner too. Good for the farmer, good for the family, best of all good for you.â ragtime romp on 6 string banjo, with band and male voices.

Track #2. Donât Try It On Me: Knowing how hard it often is for kids to be adventurous at the dinner table, Michael Mark and I wrote this sly talking blues in the style of Big Bill Broonzy, told from the point of view of a young picky-eater ragtime blues acoustic guitar, piano and bass.

Track #3. Chain Of Food: What started as a little word game, John Forster and I smiling about the âChain Of Fools/Chain Of Foodsâ connection, grew into a Motown/Southern rock-inflected tune explaining just how âsunlight from our star can turn up at the salad bar - and out there where the wild things areâ electric guitar and band, with Chapin Sisters Abigail and Lily providing hot chick-singer background vocals.

Track #4. Grow Your Own: Michael and I started with the title, laughed and quickly rejected â60âs drug references, and eventually realized that we cultivate different gardens at different stages of our lives, starting with a seed and a little paper cup from a first grade teacher to âa little old lady with a watering can.â mid-tempo folk with guitar, banjo, piano and Irish whistle.

Track #5. Beans Talk: In which a proud bean sings about life in the White House garden. John and I found it fun to imagine a âbeanstalk in Michelle Obamaâs gardenâ with a Marine haircut, posture and attitude with military piano and Sousa-like percussion.

Track #6. Locally Grown: One of the first songs John and I wrote for this project, âlocally grown and locally eaten is globally good, good, good for us all.â I previewed this song at P. S. 29 in Brooklyn a couple of years ago, during their Harvest Week, they learned it, and thatâs how we connected with their Childrenâs Chorus who sings on this CD (though not on this track). up-tempo folk with flat-picked guitar, banjo, mandolin and jaws harp.
Give PEAS A Chance
Whole Grain Music for Free-Range Earthlings

Track #7. The Ultimate Lunchroom: John and I were inspired by the seminal book, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America written by fellow WhyHunger Board member Jan Poppendieck. From her we learned what a school lunchroom could and should be like, in happy 6/8 Mexican Huapango style with trumpets, guitars, accordion and Latin percussion.

Track #8. Every Body: John Forster wrote this terrific 12/8 sing-along about body image, and how âhealth and strength and beauty come in every shape and sizeâ with 5 string banjo, accordion, guitar, whistle, kids and adult chorus.

Track #9. The Honeybee Waggle: John and Michael and I had great fun working on this song showing that forager honey bees âdance you directions,â and how the âHoneybee Waggle feeds the hive,â while pollinating and âkeeping the whole wide world aliveâ - a celebration of that hardworking and amazing insect with guitar, piano, banjo and lots of buzzing kazoos.

Track #10. Rappa Dappa Doodle: This is a young, silly word game about rotten apples, couch potatoes and other foods âthat I can live withoutâ up-tempo folk with guitar, banjo, band, happy kids voices.

Track #11. Life Grows On: Kind of an earth anthem, this is Michael and my paean to the magic growing cycle of seasons with 12 string guitar, Irish whistle, banjo, many voices.

Track #12. The Junk Food Pyramid: Hereâs a funny, cautionary tale told in Sam The Sham style, over-the-top RockânâRoll electric guitar and band, Farfisa organ, silly sound-effects.

Track #13. Slow Food: I grew up in a family that had dinner together almost every night, and we still do. Eating together can be so important as a conduit for connection â food, family, fellowship. Itâs time to slow down, eat well, and âcook up the kindâa meal that time forgotâ rippling acoustic finger-picked guitar, with sweet electric slide guitar.

Track #14. Enough For Everyone: There is enough food to feed the world, right now - inspired by the good works of WhyHunger, the hunger organization founded by Harry Chapin 35 years ago. I have been an active Board member since the beginning Jay Ungarâs unmistakably sweet Fiddle graces this folk anthem in 5/4, with solo piano, kidâs and adult voices, and a majestic instrumental ride-out.