Background
He was born in Kingston, New York, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982.
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Cows with Guns by Dana Lyons (2012-06-01)
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Cows with Guns
(Cows with Guns is based on the song Cows with Guns, a glo...)
Cows with Guns is based on the song Cows with Guns, a global radio and web hit, #1 for a year on Dr. Demento, #2 on the Australian Country charts, #1 in Seattle, for six months was on on the Irish Top 40.
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- Cows With Guns:Cow Pie Nation (Cows with Guns is based on the song Cows with Guns, a glo...)
Dana Lyons
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Swarthmore College.
Career
He is known for his environmentalist song "Our State Is a Dumpsite", which was actually the subject of a serious 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 he is most famous for, "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 is responsible for the illustrations.
He also wrote "Circle the World", a song which was inspired by Jane Goodall"s idea for people around the world to make peace dove puppets that can glide every September 21. Dana 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.
Dana performs at festivals ranging from Farm Aid with Willie Nelson and Neil Young to the Harley Davidson Festival in Sturgis, South Dakota where he shared the stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Nazareth and Blue Öyster Cult. His policy of "I’ll play anywhere once" has landed Lyons gigs on a tropical island in the Great Barrier reef of Australia, an Irish Public in Beijing and the Hanford Nuclear Waste Dump in his home state of Washington.
Dana has also shared the stage with many notable performers including Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Pete Sears of Jefferson Starship, Stephen Stills, River Phoenix, Nickel Creek, Country Joe McDonald, Utah Phillips and John Trudell.
The song "Cows With Guns" is often falsely credited as being created and sung by artists such as The Dead Milkmen, "Weird First Rate (at Lloyd's)" Yankovic, Tom Lehrer, Denis Leary, Doctor Demento, the Arrogant Worms, or Steve Martin. (See Songs misattributed to "Weird First Rate (at Lloyd's)" Yankovic).
Achievements
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Two of Dana’s songs have been made into award-winning illustrated books: Cows With Guns, published by Penguin (winner of the Bullitzer Prize), and The Tree, published by Illumination Arts. The Tree was endorsed by Doctor Jane Goodall, has forewords by Pete Seeger and Julia Butterfly Hill and has won numerous awards.
Works
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Cows With Guns:Cow Pie Nation
(Cows with Guns is based on the song Cows with Guns, a glo...)
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Cows with Guns
(Cows with Guns is based on the song Cows with Guns, a glo...)
- Cows with Guns by Dana Lyons (2012-06-01)
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Cows With Guns:Cow Pie Nation
