Mike Stout's Music

Current CD Release 

Singer song-writer and social activist Mike Stout 10th CD release is "Break The Chains" 

He calls on Americans to work together in solidarity to win the struggle for universal health care, workers rights, a green environment, and the end of the war. 

Mike pays tribute to pioneering labor leader Cyrstal Eastman who wrote the first workman's compensation law and fought for women's rights and equal pay.

Producer/guitarist Fred Nelson creates a rich musical fabric of alternative country/folk rock sounds that brightly illustrate Stouts strong social message of solidarity.

Upcoming June 2008 CD Release

In celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th Anniversary Mike is recording a new CD honoring Pittsburgh labor heroes and great events in Pittsburgh’s history.

The new CD will entitled "PITTSBURGH", will be out by June, 2008.

The song list includes:

1) Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh
2) I Can Never Get To Sleep At Night
3) People Gonna Rise Again
4) When the Heyday was Here
5) Martin Delaney
6) When the Cotton Mill Women Rose
7) Blood On the Rocks (about the 1909 Immigrant Mckees Rocks strike)
8) Crystal Eastman
9) Homestead Town
10) Fannie Sellins (written by Anne Feeney)
11) Fighter With A Heart
12) The Boxer and the Blonde (the Billy Conn story)
13) Captain Sean
14) Happy Birthday to Pittsburgh (extended acoustic version)

All songs are written by Mike with except the Fannie Sellins song by Anne Feeney.
Ronnie Lavella (formerly of the Buzz Poets) appears on drums.