Since 1986, The Raging Grannies
have been promoting global
peace, justice, and social
and economic equality by raising
public awareness through song and humor.
Dressed in outrageous attention-grabbing
Granny garb, they perform their original
song parodies whenever and wherever their
message needs to he heard.  There are now
close to 70 gaggles of Raging Grannies
throughout the world.

   In early 2006, I put out a call to the
Raging Grannies to contribute some of
their original works to this "sampler" CD.
I soon discovered that getting the Grans
to stand still long enough to record their
songs was like trying to herd cats - it just
couldn't be done!  But, in the end, 15 very
different gaggles from throughout Canada
and the U.S., from British Columbia to
Quebec, from San Francisco to Western
Massachusetts to South Florida and all
points in between, contributed to this
representative sampling.

   Each gaggle was asked to contribute
songs that were uniquely their own, so that
each might sing in their own voice.  Inevitably,
some blending of "ownership" occurred, and
whether this was the result of "the folk
process" of faulty Granny memory doesn't
matter.  What we have here is a phenomenal
collection of 28 hard-hitting songs that
exemplify the creativity, vitality, audacity,
and wisdom of the Raging Grannies.

   Included here are songs about the
war on Iraq, of course, and songs about
civil rights and women's rights, crooked
politicians and crooked elections, the
environment, growing older and hopefully
wiser, and about our vision of the world
that our grandchildren will inherit.

   We are deeply grateful to those who
wrote these songs, to the women who sing
them, to the engineers in recording studios
across our continent who brought them to
life, and to all of you who listen - and heed
the words of the Raging Grannies!

(c) Granny Vicki Ryder
Rochester, New York
May 2006