Description:
Artists as diverse as John Mellencamp, Blind Boys of Alabama, Martha Wainwright, The Black Crowes and Andrew Bird contribute tracks to Song Of America, a unique 50-song, three-CD set envisioned by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and artist/producer Ed Pettersen, and co-produced by Pettersen, Bob Olhsson and Grammy-winning producer David Macias. Track Listing Disc 1: Earl Bullhead - Lakota Dream Song/Julie Lee - Once More Our God Vouchsafe To Shine/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Let Us Break Bread Together/John Wesley Harding - God Save The King/Elizabeth Foster - Young Ladies In Town/Malcom Holcombe - The Old Woman Taught Wisdom/Ed Pettersen - The Liberty Song/Harper Simon - Yankee Doodle/The Wilders - Jefferson & Liberty/Steven Kowalczyk-Santoro - Hail Columbia/Take 6 - The Star Spangled Banner/Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child /Freedy Johnston - Peg and Awl/BR549 - Sweet Betsy From Pike/Will & Jehnean - Trail of Tears/Minton Sparks/Pat Flynn - Declaration Of Sentiments/Fisk Jubilee Singers - Go Down Moses/The Mavericks featuring Thad Cockrell - Dixie`s Land. Track Listing Disc 2: Marah - John Brown`s Body/Joanna Smith - Battle Hymn of the Republic/Janis Ian - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye/Tim O`Brien - Thousands Are Sailing To Amerikay/Otis Gibbs - The Farmer Is The Man/Joni Harms - Home On The Range/Jake Shimabukuro - Stars & Stripes Forever/Judith Edelman & Neilson Hubbard - Sleep, My Child/Jen Chapin - Over There/Andrew Bird - How You Gonna Keep `Em Down On The Farm/Karen Parks - Lift Every Voice and Sing/Danielson - Happy Days Are Here Again/Andy Bey - Brother Can Spare A Dime?/Jim Lauderdale - Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat/Old Crow Medicine Show - Deportee /Suzy Bogguss - Rosie The Riveter/Folk Family Robinson - Reuben James. Track Listing Disc 3: Elizabeth Cook and The Grascals - The Great Atomic Power/Devendra Banhart - Little Boxes/The Del McCoury Band - The Times They Are A Changin/Scott Kempner - Apache Tears/Kim Richey - Get Together/The Dynamites with Charles Walker - Say It Loud, I`m Black and I`m Proud /Ben Taylor - Ohio/Anthony David - What`s Going On?/Martha Wainwright - I Am Woman/Matthew Ryan - Youngstown/Gary Heffern & Chris Eckman - Wave/Shortee - The Message/Bettye LaVette - Streets of Philadelphia/The Wrights - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning /John Mellencamp - This Land Is Your Land. (Thirty One Tigers)
