Music for Environmental Education
The following albums spring from almost twenty years of writing, searching out, performing, and cataloging the best environmental songs throughout North America. They are the work of Stan Slaughter, one of America’s best known environmental educators. The albums are unique in the world as a collection of themed albums on the main topics of environmental interest.
They are their own genre, Music for Environmental Education. While focused as learning tools, they stand on their own musically as well. Catchy, upbeat, rockin’, lively, and clear, they stick in your head and your heart. This music is not “dumbed down” for children. Approximately 7,000 sales of these products worldwide qualify the series as an Indy hit. Comments by teachers, parents, and informal educators confirm that the music is fun, catchy, lyrically appropriate, and very useful. By writing songs that are needed to fill in the gaps and recording covers of existing songs, Stan has been able to create complete works that really cover his important topics.
All songs by Stan Slaughter unless otherwise indicated.
Rot ‘N Roll
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Coming soon! The Rot ‘N Roll Songbook is a perfect companion to the album. It contains the twelve songs in full notation with lyrics and guitar chords. Each song has activity suggestions and black and white line drawings that match the theme of each song. 53 pages.
About Rot ‘N Roll
Rot ‘N Roll is a twelve track album of fun and educational music about composting and recycling, with companion content available including videos, music notation, and karaoke tracks for three of the songs.
Rot ‘N Roll was produced and released as a cassette in 1993 to accompany Stan’s traveling Eco-Troubadour Road Show, a school-based program on composting and recycling. While the original songs were re-mastered and “tweaked,” only two new earthworm songs were added to the original song list. Rot ‘n’ Roll has been the most popular of the series with nearly 4,000 in circulation at this writing. It features eight songs by Stan specifically written to fill educational needs. Schools, teachers and solid waste agencies are major purchasers of Rot ‘n’ Roll, validating its status as a major educational work.
Rot ‘N Roll Track List
01 The Garden Song (Inch by Inch) (Dave Mallett)
02 The Composters
03 Put Me in the Compost Pile
04 Earthworm
05 Feed It to the Worms
06 Garbage Blues (Dennis Westphal)
07 Garbage! (Bill Steele)
08 Landfill Blues
09 Recycle Shuffle
10 Pretty Paper, Pretty Trees (Bill Oliver)
11 I Am Recycled
12 Cosmic Stew
In Tune With All Species
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Coming soon! The “In Tune with All Species” Songbook includes lead sheets (melody line) with chords and lyrics to make singing In Tune with groups easy. Illustrated by wildlife artist Sylvia Hein.
About In Tune with All Species
Eco-music for young and old, about all species. In Tune is the ideal album for the younger set.
In Tune With All Species was the first album of the series, originally produced and released as a cassette in 1989. A complete revision was started in 2005, with the intent of collecting the “Greatest Hits of the Environmental Movement.” Seven songs were recorded to go with five of the original tracks. The original tracks were updated and remastered to insure a modern integrated sound. Five international classics of the environmental movement were added to In Tune: This Pretty Planet by Tom Chapin (Harry’s Brother), All God’s Creatures by Bill Staines, The Garden Song by David Mallett, Evergreen Everblue by Raffi, and This Island Earth by Paul Cooper of the Nylons. The effect is to create a collection of anthems, the songs every kid should know about the environment.
In Tune with All Species Track List
01 This Pretty Planet (Tom Chapin)
02 Habitat
03 Prairie
04 Six Leg Boogie
05 Salmon Circle
06 The Frog and the Flea
07 I Am An Animal
08 All God’s Creatures (Bill Staines)
09 The Garden Song (David Mallett)
10 Evergreen, Everblue (Raffi)
11 Little Blue Ball
12 This Island Earth (Paul Cooper/the Nylons)
Unintended Consequences
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About Unintended Consequences
Eco-Music: The world’s only household hazardous waste album! Humorous songs with real science behind them.
Unintended Consequences is a mostly original album written by Stan to accompany his educational outreach on household hazardous waste. Released in 1998, it was an outgrowth of the nation’s push to eliminate toxins from the waste stream. A three year run of programs in the Midwest was the inspiration for the work. His Teenager in Wasteland, an urban rap, has been called simply brilliant for its portrayal of the situation young people find themselves in today.
Unintended Consequences Track List
01 Household Hazardous Waste (Lyrics)
02 Half Pint Can of Bright Red Paint
03 LEAD (Such a Heavy Dude)
04 Bad Actors (Always Act the Same)
05 Don’t Let the Goo Get You (Lyrics)
06 Teenager in Wasteland (A Rap)
07 What Can I Use Instead?
08 Storm Drain Stenciling
09 Excuse Me, Sir (That’s My Aquifer) (Ann Rowland)
10 We’re All Connected
11 Shoppin’ (For a Better World)
Water All Over the World
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About Water All Over the World
Water All Over the World is an anthology of the best water songs Stan can find. Stan wrote six of the twelve songs and the others are written by musician/activists from all over North America. The music varies widely from pure rock on “Storm Drain” to Indian chant on “Ogallala” to powerfully lyrical on “Dance Up a Storm” which features magnificent flute work by Kim Park. Eco-Troubadour Stan Slaughter sings these and others at Water Festivals across the country. Water All Over the World works well in educational settings and also as just great listening.
Water All Over the World deals with a vastly important topic, our dwindling supply of freshwater. Stan has been entertaining at water festivals for over fifteen years all over the country. This networking has allowed him to find and add the best of water songs to his repertoire. From the beautiful and haunting “Dance up a Storm” to the rousing “Water,” the variety of topics and their relevance is a treat.
Water All Over the World Track List
01 Little Stream (Douglas Wood)
02 We’re All Connected
03 Sittin’ Crosslegged
04 Ogallala (Ann Rowland)
05 Excuse Me, Sir (That’s My Aquifer) (Ann Rowland)
06 Watershed
07 Stream Team
08 Heal the Water (Don Matt)
09 Dance Up a Storm
10 Storm Drain Stenciling
11 Salmon Circle (Fraser Lang)
12 Water (Ken Lonnquist)
My Green Dream
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About My Green Dream
My Green Dream features the best of Stan Slaughter’s songwriting for adults. Some of the songs go back to the early eighties and others are new. Cautionary tales from Stan’s farm background such as “Babe” and “Down on the Farm” mix well with ballads of activism such as “Big Mountain” and “A Bundle of Sticks.” Recorded both in Shawnee, Kansas and Alamosa, Colorado, the blend of influences can be heard in the amazing musicianship of guitarist, Jim Scott, dobro and mandolinist Don Richmond (who also engineered the final version), violinist Keith VanWinkle, and many harmony vocalists. My Green Dream could be said to be songs of challenge and hope, but like a dream there’s much more if you listen closely.
My Green Dream Track List
01 My Green Dream
02 Why Wild (Chris Wells)
03 A Sense of Time
04 Babe
05 Down on the Farm
06 Can You Laugh About It Now
07 We, the People
08 A Bundle of Sticks (Quindaro)
09 I’m From the Earth
10 Cosmic Stew
11 Let’s Go Up to the Forest (Chris Wells)
12 Big Mountain
Singles
Praise for Stan’s Music
My Green Dream
“Stan Slaughter’s “My Green Dream” is a privileged glimpse into the very soul of a songwriter. At once both a heartwarming vision of a hopeful future and a gentle reminder of the influences we all have on our home planet. With compassion and respect, Stan took me on a magical and exquisite journey through a variety of musical and emotional feels. Fluid, timeless and melodic – his creation is like a mother’s loving presence on a dark path through a forest of troubled uncertainty.
A pleasant and easy blend of acoustic/electric with flavorings of latin, jazz, pop and ballad styling, I found all the songs to be unique yet comfortably familiar. “Cosmic Stew” is smooth and luscious with a silky catchiness I really enjoyed. Stan’s studied lyrics are poignant without being preachy.
This is the most thoughtful CD Stan has ever produced and includes quiet, serious moments absent from his other CDs. “Down on the Farm” is an unvarnished look at modern farming, unsettling in its truthfulness. His classic and immortal song “Babe” about a workhorse on his family farm, will forever remain the song that takes me to my core of sorrow for childhood lost. Stan’s ability to weave his own personal experience into his songs is both raw and breathtaking at the same time.
This CD would be a crowning achievement for any songwriter but for Stan Slaughter, with a string of exceptional CDs to his credit, it is a stunning gift of beauty, purity and heart. Thank you Stan for your kindness and your courage.”
— Renee Kimball,
Singer songwriter and leader of Enuf!, The Planet’s Favorite Band
Unintended Consequences
“Stan, The Compost Man, Slaughter builds on his extraordinary body of ecological, eclectic and fun! music with his third album, Unintended Consequences. Stan, with his wife Linda on fine accompanying vocals, pours out a trove of tunes in a wide range of styles, teaching, leading and entertaining with equal facility both kids and adults. The need for this message gets greater every day. Stan steps up to the unfolding ecological crisis and meets the challenge with the tuneful inspiration, humor and effectiveness we have come to expect from America’s Number One Eco-troubadour. Unintended Consequences is the shining tip of the iceberg of the great legacy of Earthly good works that is Stan and Linda Slaughter’s Tall Oak Productions.”
— David Haenke,
Director, The Ecological Society Project of the Tides Foundation
Rot ‘N Roll
“Stan’s music brings forth ‘visual songs’ for kids of all ages to begin
to understand the import of composting, recycling and resource
conservation. I can see those worms composting up a storm in my mind’s eye when listening to and enjoying his tunes. His work reminds me that we have a beautiful natural world and that in exchange for that reward all of us as citizens have an obligation to compost and recycle. And to leave a small footprint on the earth so that the generations following us will enjoy the earth’s resources.
Stan has been successful for many years because of his ability to
present educational and instructional information in a fun and colorful way that kids clearly enjoy and respond to favorably. He has packed a lot of good into one small CD and I recommend listening of his work to all kids of all ages from 3 to 103.”
— Pete Grogan, co-founder of Eco-Cycle, winner of Lifetime Achievement Award and 2006 Recycler of the Year Award by the National Recycling Coalition
Rot N’ Roll
“Slaughter’s newly released enhanced CD ‘Rot ‘N Roll’ is consistently entertaining, amusing and instructive in a very useful way. Better still, his songs are musically engaging, alive and largely free of the geo-centric ‘preachiness’ that weighs down so much of environmental
education.”