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| Dana Lyons | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kingston, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, children's book author |
Dana Lyons is an American folk and alternative rock musician, who wrote and performed the 1996 comedic folk song "Cows With Guns".
Life
Lyons was born in Kingston, New York, grew up in Niskayuna, New York, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982.
His environmentalist song "Our State Is a Dumpsite", became the subject of a proposal in the Washington legislature during the 1980s to be made the official state song. He went on to perform music for the environmental group Earth First! and to record an album of children's music, At Night They Howl at the Moon before releasing the song "Cows With Guns," on the album of the same title, in 1996.
Lyons is the author of the children's book The Tree (2002). Jane Goodall penned the foreword and David Danioth provided the illustrations. Lyons currently resides in Bellingham, Washington.
Career
Lyons has toured in 46 of the 50 American states, around the East Coast of Australia and across Ireland, England, New Zealand, Mexico, Kazakhstan and Siberia. Lyons has performed at Farm Aid and the Harley Davidson Festival in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Two of Lyons’s songs have been made into illustrated books: Cows With Guns, published by Penguin, and The Tree, published by Illumination Arts.
Discography
- Our State is a Dumpsite (1985)
- Animal (1988)
- I'd Go Anywhere to Fight for Oil to Lubricate the Red, White and Blue (1991)
- Turn of the Wrench (1992)
- At Night They Howl at the Moon: Environmental Songs for Kids with John Seed (1993)
- Cows with Guns (1997) – No. 32 Australia
- WTO Disco (2002)
- Ride the Lawn (2004)
- Circle the World, songs and stories with Jane Goodall (2004)
- Three Legged Coyote (2009)
- The Great Salish Sea (2014)
- Adani Convoy (parody of Convoy) (2019)
- Give Me An Easy Morning (2020)
Bibliography
- Cows with Guns illustrated by Jeff Sinclair, 1998 ISBN 978-0-670-87890-1
- The Tree illustrated by David Danioth, 2002 ISBN 978-0-9701907-3-4
References
- Bonino, Rick (March 13, 1989). "Rules, reality don't coincide at City Hall". Spokesman-Review. p. A8. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
- Young-Metzler, Melissa (October 24, 1986). "Traveling brothers push anti-nuke measure". Ellensburg Daily Record.
- Dillon, Cathy (February 14, 1986). "Nuclear waste concerns singer". Tri City Herald.
- 3CR; McIntyre, Iain (2019-04-01). "Treesits, lock-ons and barricades: Environmental blockading in the 1980s". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Entry, A. Calendar. "House Concert with Dana Lyons". WhatcomTalk. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- "SOLD OUT! Chuckanut Radio Hour with Bill McKibben, 'Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist', and musical guest Dana Lyons". Village Books: Building Community One Book at a Time. 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- "Discography Dana Lyons". australian-charts.com. Retrieved August 23, 2022.