Music like Dana Lyons

Dana Lyons is a folk music and alternative rock musician from Bellingham, Washington, best known for writing and performing the 1996 comedic folk song "Cows With Guns".

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

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.