A landmark 50-song, three-CD set featuring John Mellencamp, The Blind Boys ofAlabama, MarthaWainwright, The Black Crowes, Andrew Bird and many others This one of a kind collection tells the history of our country through song, from 1492 through modern s, offering listeners a way to connect with America's vast musical and cultural heritage. These are new versions of beloved songs interpreted by an array of diverse and talented contemporary artists. The project was envisioned by Janet Reno and artist/producer Ed Pettersen, and co-produced by Pettersen and Grammy-winning producer David Macias.

On paper, this project appears as improbable as the partnership that conceived it: former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and veteran Nashville indie-punk troubadour Ed Pettersen (who happens to be married to Reno's niece). The history of America through 50 songs, encapsulated on three discs? The first disc alone spanning 1492 to 1860, from the landing of Columbus to the Civil War? An idiosyncratic selection that includes songs familiar to almost all Americans and others familiar to practically none? Rather than a dry, dusty museum piece, the results are compulsively listenable, as producer Pettersen invites a wide range of artists to do what they do best--interpret the material and make it their own. Highlights are many, as the early days of the republic find Harper Simon (Paul's son) rendering "Yankee Doodle" as if it were an indie-rock Viagra commercial; the advent of the Civil War shows Marah, like an American Pogues, brig a punk ferocity to "John Brown's Body"; and Del McCoury's bluegrass rendition of "The s They Are A-Cha'" finds an older man renewing a young Bob Dylan's anthem. The sonorous dignity that jazz vocalist Andy Bey brings to the Depression-era panhandler's plea, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," is particularly moving, as is Bettye LaVette's gospel rendition of Bruce Springsteen's AIDS ballad, "Streets of Philadelphia." Revolution, immigration, war, atomic power, civil rights, fism, faith, depression, and despair--it's all here, in song. --Don McLeese

:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc 1

1. Earl Bullhead - Lakota Dream Song

2. Julie Lee - Once More Our God Vouchsafe To Shine

3. The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Let Us Break Bread Together

4. John Wesley Harding - God Save The King

5. Elizabeth Foster - Young Ladies In Town

6. Malcolm Holcombe - The Old Woman Taught Wisdom

7. Ed Pettersen - The Liberty Song

8. Harper Simon - Yankee Doodle

9. The Wilders - Jefferson & Liberty

10. Steven Kowalczyk-Santoro - Hail Columbia

11. Take 6 - Star Spangled Banner

12. Beth Nielsen Chapman - Somes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

13. Freedy Johnston - Peg And Awl

14. BR549 - Sweet Betsy From Pike

15. Will And Jehnean - Trail Of Tears

16. Minton Sparks & Pat Flynn - Declaration Of Sennts

17. Fisk Jubilee Singers - Go Down Moses

18. The Mavericks & Thad Cockrell - Dixie's Land

Disc 2

1. Marah - John Brown's Body

2. Joanna Smith - Battle Hymn Of The Republic

3. Janis Ian - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye

4. Tim O'Brien - Thousands Are Sailing To Amerikay

5. Otis Gibbs - The Farmer Is The Man

6. Joni harms - Home On The Range

7. Jake Shimabukuro - Stars & Stripes Forever

8. Judith Edelman & Neilson Hubbard - Sleep My Child (Schlof Mayn Kind)

9. Jen Chapin - Over There

10. Andrew Bird - How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm

11. Karen Parks - Lift Every Voice And Sing

12. Danielson - Happy Days Are Here Again

13. Andy Bey - Brother, Can You Spare A Dime ?

14. Jim Lauderdale - Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat

15. Old Crow Medicine Show - Deportee

16. Suzy Bogguss - Rosie The Riveter

17. Folk Family Robinson - Reuben James

Disc 3

1. Elizabeth Cook & The Grascals - The Great Atomic Power

2. Devendra Banhart - Little Boxes

3. The Del McCoury Band - The s They Are A Cha'

4. Scott Kempner - Apache Tears

5. Kim Richey - Get Together

6. The Dynamites & Charles Walker - Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud)

7. Ben Taylor - Ohio

8. Anthony David - What's Going On ?

9. Martha Wainwright - I Am Woman

10. Matthew Ryan - Youngstown

11. Gary Heffern & Chris Eckman - Wave

12. Shortee Wop - The Message

13. Bettye Lavette - Streets Of Philadelphia

14. The Wrights - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning

15. John Mellencamp - This Land Is Your Land



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