Libby Roderick

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Birth name Elizabeth Roderick Instruments singing, guitar Labels Turtle Island Records Education Yale University Record label Turtle Island Records		Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter Years active 1985–present Name Libby Roderick Genres Folk music

Origin Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. Role Singer · libbyroderick.com Albums How Could Anyone, If You See a Dream, Lay it All Down, If The World Were My Lover, Thinking Like a Mountain People also search for Shaina Noll, Peter Amidon, Holly Near Profiles Myspace

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Libby Roderick (born 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song "How Could Anyone" has been featured on CNN, in Readers Digest, and in the Associated Press. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she still lives part of the time. Her father, John "Jack" Roderick, a Yale football star, was mayor of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, and her late mother, Martha, was a renowned Alaska educator. Libby graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in American Studies, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator and writer on Alaska Native issues.

Studio albums

If You See a Dream (Turtle Island Records, 1990)

Thinking Like a Mountain (Turtle Island Records, 1991)

If the World Were My Lover (Turtle Island Records, 1993)

Lay it All Down (Turtle Island Records, 1997)

A Meditation for Healing (Turtle Island Records, 1998)

How Could Anyone (Turtle Island Records, 2005)

Compilations

How Could Anyone (2005)

Compilations featuring Libby Roderick songs

One Land, One Heart (Musicians United to Sustain the Environment, 1999).

Includes "Low to the Ground" from Thinking Like a Mountain (1991). Other participants: Greg Wagner, Magpie, Susan Grace, Dakota Sid Clifford, Karen Goldberg, David Elias, Alice DiMicele, John McCutcheon, Lydia Adams Davis, Peter Berryman & Lou Berryman, Joanne Rand, Dana Lyons, Walkin' Jim Stoltz, Paul Winter

Songbook

1994. When I Hear Music. Anchorage, AK: Turtle Island Records. Lyrics, music, and guitar chords for songs from If You See A Dream (1990) and Thinking Like A Mountain (1991).

Writings

1985. Alaska Women's History Resource Booklet. Anchorage, AK: Western Media Concepts. Produced by the Alaska Women's History Project.

1999. "This Holy Earth." In Prayers for a Thousand Years. Ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, pp. 192–193.

2001. "Another Country." In Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony. Ed by Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, pp. 64–65.

2008. Associate Editor, Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, ed by Kay Landis. (http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/handbook.cfm) University of Alaska Anchorage.

2010. Editor, Alaska Native Cultures and Issues. University of Alaska Press.

2013. Co-author, Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, with Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff. (https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=402). University of Alaska.

Songs

How Could Anyone
Thinking Like a Mountain
If You See a Dream
Lay it All Down
When I Hear Music
Low to the Ground
Cradle of Dawn
Dancing in Front of the Guns
If the World Were My Lover
Dig Down Deep
Inspire Me
America America
Is That What You Really Want?
Body is the Temple
Grandfather Sun
Holy Thing to Love
Song for Summer Solstice
Caught Between a Rock and a Soft Place
Telling Myself Lies
Keep On Strong Heart
LC Smith
Angel Coming Your Way
I Think We're Going to Make It
Heaven Down Here
Because You Do
Goodbye Old Friend
I Wish I Still Believed in Angels
Hold Your Ground
Love Holds On
Road to Ecstasy
Don't Give Up
Bones

References

Libby Roderick Wikipedia

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