Songs Against Drilling

Songs Against Drilling: With a blend of interviews and concert footage, the filmmaker Alex Gibney covers an anti-hydraulic fracturing rally and accompanying benefit concert featuring Natalie Merchant and Mark Ruffalo.
One day in April, I got a call from Natalie Merchant wondering if I would round up some volunteers to film an anti-hydraulic-fracturing concert and rally in Albany. I couldn't resist. First of all, I had thought for some time that the rush to hydraulic fracturing was reckless. Second, I really liked Natalie's idea: mounting a kind of "teach-in" about the topic and a celebration of the activists who had spread the word about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing . Most of the recent political discourse is so grim, shrill and angry. Here, wonderful rocking voices — and man do they soar! — would shake the windows and rattle the walls in Albany, even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was deciding what to do about hydraulic fracturing . The last song is Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People," which includes the lyrics: "My own beliefs are in my song."

Alex Gibney is a documentary filmmaker whose directing credits include the 2007 Oscar-winning film "Taxi to the Dark Side" and the 2005 Oscar-nominated film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."

Natalie Merchant - Verdi Cries

Natalie Merchant - These Are Days

These are the days
These are days you'll remember.
Never before and never since, 
I promise, will the whole world be warm as this. 
And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.

These are days you'll remember. 
When May is rushing over you with desire to be part of the miracles you see in every hour. You'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.

These are days.
These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break. 
These days you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face. 
And when you do you'll know how it was meant to be.
See the signs and know their meaning.
It's true, you'll know how it was meant to be. 
Hear the signs and know they're speaking to you, to you.

Life is Sweet Live

"Life is Sweet" from the VH1 Storytellers concert DVD featuring Chris Botti on trumpet.

10000 Maniacs (Natalie Merchant) singing The Latin One on The Word

Fantastic clip of a rare 10000 Maniacs song performed live.