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Song of America [Digipak] (CD)

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DISC 1 for Song of America [Digipak] (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Lakota Dream Song - Earl Bullhead
2   Once More Our God Vouchsafe To Shine - Julie Lee
3   Let Us Break Bread Together - Blind Boys Of Alabama
4   God Save The King - John Wesley Harding
5   Young Ladies In Town - Elizabeth Foster
6   Old Woman Taught Wisdom, The - Malcolm Holcombe
7   Liberty Song, The - Ed Pettersen
8   Yankee Doodle - Harper Simon
9   Jefferson & Liberty - The Wilders
10   Hail Columbia - Steven Kowalczyk-Santoro
11   Star Spangled Banner, The - Take 6
12   Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Beth Nielsen Chapman
13   Peg And Awl - Freedy Johnston
14   Sweet Betsy From Pike - BR549
15   Trail Of Tears - Will & Jehnean
16   Declaration Of Sentiments - Minton Sparks/Pat Hynn
17   Go Down Moses - Fisk Jubilee Singers
18   Dixie's Land - The Mavericks/Thad Cockrell
 
DISC 2 for Song of America [Digipak] (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   John Brown's Body - Marah
2   Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Joanna Smith
3   Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye - Janis Ian
4   Thousands Are Sailing To Amerikay - Tim O'Brien
5   Farmer Is The Man, The - Otis Gibbs
6   Home On The Range - Joni Harms
7   Stars & Stripes Forever - Jake Shimabukuro
8   Sleep My Child - Judith Edelman/Neilson Hubbard
9   Over There - Jen Chapin
10   How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm - Andrew Bird
11   Lift Every Voice And Sing - Karen Parks
12   Happy Days Are Here Again - Danielson
13   Brother, Can You Spare A Dime - Andy Bey
14   Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat - Jim Lauderdale
15   Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) - Old Crow Medicine Show
16   Rosie The Riveter - Suzy Bogguss
17   Reuben James - Folk Family Robinson
 
DISC 3 for Song of America [Digipak] (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Great Atomic Power, The - Elizabeth Cook & the Grascals
2   Little Boxes - Devendra Banhart
3   Times They Are A Changin', The - The Del McCoury Band
4   Apache Tears - Scott Kempner
5   Get Together - Kim Richey
6   Say It Loud (I'm Black And Proud) - Charles Walker/The Dynamites
7   Ohio - Ben Taylor
8   What's Going On? - Anthony David
9   I Am Woman - Marthe Wainwright
10   Youngstown - Matthew Ryan
11   Wave - Gary Heffern/Chris Eckman
12   Message, The - Shortee Wop
13   Streets Of Philadelphia - Bettye LaVette
14   Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning - The Wrights
15   This Land Is Your Land - John Mellencamp
 

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Review

Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]pectacular....[F]ive centuries of song are crammed into three red-white-and-blue discs. It's all here: colonial war, revolution, immigration, the expansion of the West and capitalism."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Fine performances abound -- Beth Nielsen Chapman's enthralling 'Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child' one among many."

Title Note

Any reasonable music fan would be forgiven for being wary of a collection of American folk music whose executive producer was former attorney general Janet Reno, but as it happens Reno knows more about such things than one might expect. At the very least Reno had the good judgment to suggest singer, songwriter and activist Ed Pettersen coordinate an album of songs that reflected different aspects of American history, from the colonial period to the present day. Pettersen's long gestating project, Song of America, has finally surfaced as a hefty three-CD set, featuring 50 songs from as many artists, and the final product is frequently fascinating and ambitious stuff, music that demonstrates how art mirrors our history and how that art can carry its message in a broad range of interpretations. Pettersen, co-producers David Macias and Bob Olhsson, and their cast of singers and musicians are clearly mindful of the message and context of these songs, but they don't insist on treating them with kid gloves; the discordant horns on John Wesley Harding's "God Save the King" boldly reflects the chaos of the Revolution, Danielson's interpretation of "Happy Days Are Here Again" is at once playful and aware of the dark shadows of the Depression, the Mavericks transform "Dixie's Land" into a spectral anthem to a cause that would soon be lost, and "The Times They Are A Changin'" seems to speak to both past and present through the Del McCoury Band. Pettersen and company are also smart enough to realize that while the folk process has changed, it's hardly stopped, and that the work of James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Grandmaster Flash, and Marvin Gaye are all a part of the broad banner of our history, with their works interpreted with the same intelligence and thoughtfulness as the traditional numbers. The set closes with John Mellencamp singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," and in this context, Guthrie's simple but eloquent song has rarely displayed a greater resonance, revealing how these tunes don't merely reflect our lives and history, but are a living part of it. Song of America is hardly the first album that seeks to chart this nation's progress through song, but few have done it with this degree of intelligence and imagination, and everyone involved deserved to be congratulated for creating something very special indeed. ~ Mark Deming

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