Music Artist
David Rovics
David Rovics is catalogued in the Free Music Archive with 72 CC-licensed tracks across 7 albums, primarily in Folk.
David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90’s he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90’s he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable who’s who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded mo
Links:
Official site
· FMA profile
Catalogue & Listenership
Scale
David Rovics has 72 tracks across 7 albums, totalling 3h 54m 00s of audio at an average bitrate of 169 kbps.
Audience engagement (FMA)
FMA listeners have streamed catalogued tracks 41,125 times and added them to favourites 46 times.
Genre & Licence Profile
Genre distribution
| Genre | Tracks |
|---|---|
| Folk | 57 |
Licence distribution
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci — 42
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. — 16
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 — 13
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives — 1
Track Catalogue
72 tracks shown
| Track | Album | Genre | Duration | Listens | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pirate Song | Pirate Pop 2015 | 1m 50s | 621 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. | |
| Waiting for the Hurricane | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 23s | 1,210 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| I Can't Breathe | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 29s | 367 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Liberty and Justice For All | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 27s | 252 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Before the War Came Home | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 09s | 308 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Denmark 1943 | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 25s | 280 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Angry White American Man | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 28s | 690 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| State House Lawn | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 39s | 280 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| They All Sang the Internationale | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 4m 42s | 253 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Kobane | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 15s | 377 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Joe Hill | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 44s | 398 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 37s | 678 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci | |
| Douglas MacLeod | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 47s | 387 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Frieden und Freiheit | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 3m 28s | 435 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Ballad of Cece McDonald | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 49s | 673 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Christmas in a Tent | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 52s | 4,621 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Ball is Round | The Other Side 2015 | Folk | 2m 09s | 1,813 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Landlord | Folk | 5m 08s | 641 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci | |
| Kobane | 3m 20s | 416 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. | ||
| Landlord | Folk | 5m 08s | 355 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci | |
| Landlord | Folk | 5m 08s | 1,068 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci | |
| Letter to My Landlord | Folk | 4m 07s | 1,012 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci | |
| God's Gift to the Caliphate | 1939 | Folk | 2m 33s | 186 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Send Them Back | 1939 | Folk | 1m 39s | 142 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| If_Then | 1939 | Folk | 1m 22s | 129 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| One Day in Kenya | 1939 | Folk | 3m 06s | 231 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| 1492 | 1939 | Folk | 4m 38s | 154 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Anthony Hill | 1939 | Folk | 1m 35s | 103 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Sunset Laws | 1939 | Folk | 2m 16s | 288 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| They Couldn't Stand By | 1939 | Folk | 2m 45s | 118 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Rasmea | 1939 | Folk | 1m 30s | 106 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Ballad of Saed Bannoura | 1939 | Folk | 2m 20s | 160 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Aleppo | 1939 | Folk | 2m 56s | 144 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Lola Aglialoro | 1939 | Folk | 3m 53s | 161 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Stolperstein | 1939 | Folk | 2m 31s | 110 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Beneath These Stars | 1939 | Folk | 3m 07s | 278 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Song for Alistair | 1939 | Folk | 2m 32s | 135 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| It's Legal Now | 1939 | Folk | 2m 36s | 187 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Eagles of Death | 1939 | Folk | 1m 37s | 325 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Upon Our Shores | 1939 | Folk | 2m 00s | 313 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| The Irish Spring | 1939 | Folk | 3m 24s | 1,854 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Rent Control | 1939 | Folk | 2m 11s | 326 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Die Moorsoldaten | 1939 | Folk | 3m 02s | 417 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Behind the Barricades | 1939 | Folk | 1m 30s | 915 | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci |
| Tunisia 2011 | Big Red Sessions | 5m 49s | 317 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Song For Bradley Manning | Big Red Sessions | 4m 22s | 160 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Riot Dog | Big Red Sessions | 2m 00s | 660 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Cordova | Big Red Sessions | 3m 26s | 119 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Sugihara | Big Red Sessions | 5m 06s | 133 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| I'm a Better Anarchist than You | Big Red Sessions | 2m 17s | 405 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| East Tennessee | Big Red Sessions | 3m 20s | 324 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| John Brown | Big Red Sessions | 4m 26s | 287 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Burn it Down | Big Red Sessions | 3m 00s | 971 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Song for Mavi Mamara | Big Red Sessions | 6m 02s | 240 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Pirate Santa | Big Red Sessions | 3m 39s | 1,102 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| Up the Provos | Big Red Sessions | 6m 14s | 189 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| The Last Lincoln Veteran | Big Red Sessions | 5m 08s | 429 | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 | |
| The Commons | Free! Music! Contest! 2010 Sampler "Gegensinn" | Folk | 2m 59s | 2,000 | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
| Minimum Wage Strike | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 39s | 2,573 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| We Just Want The World | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 04s | 788 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| The Death Of David Chain | We Just Want The World | Folk | 2m 41s | 285 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Judi Bari | We Just Want The World | Folk | 2m 22s | 241 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Cannabis Cafe | We Just Want The World | Folk | 2m 28s | 772 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Parking Lots And Strip Malls | We Just Want The World | Folk | 1m 52s | 393 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Song For Hugh Thomson | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 10s | 226 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Contras Kings And Generals | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 01s | 389 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Henry Ford Was A Fascist | We Just Want The World | Folk | 1m 49s | 488 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Song For Boxcar Betty | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 34s | 419 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| T Stop Cafe | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 07s | 639 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Too Proud To Beg | We Just Want The World | Folk | 3m 27s | 554 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| Glory And Fame (Edited) | We Just Want The World | Folk | 4m 33s | 778 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
| If I Die Tomorrow | We Just Want The World | Folk | 8m 18s | 1,327 | Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. |
Frequently Asked Questions
How many tracks does David Rovics have in the Free Music Archive?
David Rovics has 72 catalogued tracks in the archive.
What genre is David Rovics?
Their catalogued tracks are primarily in Folk (57 of 72).
Where is David Rovics based?
David Rovics is based in Portland, OR 97201 (per the Free Music Archive profile).
Can I use David Rovics’s music?
Tracks are published under Creative Commons licences selected by the artist — most commonly Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci. Always check the original release page for the exact terms.