Songs Against Drilling - NYTimes.com To watch the video, press the play button on the image. One day in April, I got a call from Natalie Merchant wondering if I would round up some volunteers to film an anti-hydraulic-fracturing concert and rally in Albany. I couldn't resist. First of all, I had thought for some time that the rush to hydraulic fracturing was reckless. Second, I really liked Natalie's idea: mounting a kind of "teach-in" about the topic and a celebration of the activists who had spread the word about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing . Most of the recent political discourse is so grim, shrill and angry. Here, wonderful rocking voices - and man do they soar! - would shake the windows and rattle the walls in Albany, even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was deciding what to do about hydraulic fracturing . The last song is Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People," which includes the lyrics: "My own beliefs are in my song." Alex Gibney is a documentary filmmaker whose directing credits include the 2007 Oscar-winning film "Taxi to the Dark Side" and the 2005 Oscar-nominated film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."