Dana Lyons

Dana Lyons is an American folk and alternative rock musician, best known for writing and performing the 1996 comedic folk song "Cows With Guns".[1]

Dana Lyons
Born
Kingston, New York, U.S.
Alma materSwarthmore College
OccupationMusician, children's book author

Life

He was born in Kingston, New York, grew up in Niskayuna New York, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982.

He is known for his environmentalist song "Our State Is a Dumpsite",[2] which became the subject of a proposal in the Washington legislature during the 1980s to be made the official state song.[3] 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 provided the illustrations. Lyons currently resides in Bellingham, Washington.[4][5]

Career

Lyons 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. Lyons has performed at Farm Aid and the Harley Davidson Festival in Sturgis, South Dakota.

Two of Lyons’s songs have been made into illustrated books: Cows With Guns, published by Penguin, and The Tree, published by Illumination Arts.

Discography
  • Animal 1988
  • I'd Go Anywhere to Fight for Oil to Lubricate the Red, White and Blue 1991
  • WTO Disco
  • Turn of the Wench 1992
  • At Night They Howl At the Moon: Environmental Songs for Kids, 1993, with John Seed
  • Cows with Guns, 1997
  • Ride the Lawn, 2004
  • Circle the World, 2004, songs and stories with Jane Goodall
  • Three Legged Coyote, 2009
  • The Great Salish Sea, 2014

Bibliography
  • Cows with Guns illustrated by Jeff Sinclair, 1998 ISBN 978-0-670-87890-1
  • The Tree illustrated by David Danioth, 2002 ISBN 978-0-9701907-3-4

References
  1. Bonino, Rick (March 13, 1989). "Rules, reality don't coincide at City Hall". Spokesman-Review. p. A8. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  2. Young-Metzler, Melissa (October 24, 1986). "Traveling brothers push anti-nuke measure". Ellensburg Daily Record.
  3. Dillon, Cathy (February 14, 1986). "Nuclear waste concerns singer". Tri City Herald.
  4. Entry, A. Calendar. "House Concert with Dana Lyons". WhatcomTalk. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  5. "SOLD OUT! Chuckanut Radio Hour with Bill McKibben, 'Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist', and musical guest Dana Lyons". Village Books: Building Community One Book at a Time. 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
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