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CD TRACK LIST
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bios!
1. “Peace” - Norah Jones (3.54 min)
A version of a Horace
Silver song not on her multi-platinum album, Come Away With Me, which was
originally included on an
EP she sold from the stage at her early gigs.
"She was on tour in Asia when
we asked her and amazingly she came back
immediately saying 'yes' to the project and suggesting
this track," says
compiler Mike Kappus.
2. “I Shall Not Be Moved” - Pops Staples (with Ry
Cooder) (4.06 min)
A long time supporter of Earthjustice, Ry Cooder was one of the
first artists to come on board.
“I Shall Not Be Moved” features the voice
of Pops Staples, accompanied by some typically stunning
slide guitar. The
track originally appeared on the
Grammy nominated Peace To The
Neighborhood,
Pops Staples' first solo album released in 1992 at the age
of 77.
3. “What's Going On” - Los Lobos (4.45 min)
Marvin Gaye's
classic song could almost be Earthjustice’s theme song. Los Lobos'
stirring version was performed in October
1992 at a live amphitheater show
and recorded for WXRT radio in Chicago.
The track appeared on
the band's box set, Just
Another Band From East LA: A Collection.
4. “Watching The River Flow” - Bob Dylan (3.38 min)
Released as
a single in 1971 and produced by Leon Russell, “Watching the River Flow”
never
appeared on a Bob Dylan studio
album. But it was subsequently
included on the compilation Bob
Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2.
5. “It’s A Blessing” - Maria Muldaur
(with Bonnie
Raitt)
(3.50
min)
Bonnie Raitt had worked with Earthjustice before and was the first
artist to agree to support
Where We Live. The traditional
“It’s A
Blessing” is a duet with Maria Muldaur on the latter’s 2001
album, Richland Woman Blues.
6. “Estampa" -
Rubén Blades (4.03 min)
“Estampa” is a specially edited version from the Grammy winning 2002 album, Mundo, by superstar
musician and actor,
Rubén Blades. The song was chosen not only for the
beauty of the music but
also for its lyric, which contains the line:
‘The
planet does not belong to a group of people/ It is
created for all of us
to walk on it.’
7. “What A Wonderful World” -
Dan Zanes & Friends
(with Lou Reed &
The Rubi Theater Company) (3.39
min)
Somebody had to do “What A
Wonderful World” on an album like this. And who better than Dan
Zanes, the
former singer
with the legendary Del Fuegos. The recording features Lou
Reed as well
as The Rubi Theater Company adding the chilling
spoken word
segment in Spanish and English.
8. “Yes I Will” - Michael Franti & Spearhead (4.56
min)
“Yes I
Will” comes from
Songs From The Front Porch: An Acoustic Collection from
maverick hip-hop
singer - poet and
activist Michael Franti, and his
extraordinary Spearhead ensemble. The album is
not commercially available
but is on sale
from the stage at Franti’s live gigs.
9. “Living In The Promiseland” - Willie Nelson (3.24 min)
"Willie just made perfect
sense and so did this song with the unique
perspective on America," says compiler Mike Kappus.
“Living in the Promiseland”
originally appeared on Willie's
Country chart
topping 1986 album, The Promiseland.
10. “Sister Rosa” - The Neville Brothers (3.29 min)
Environmental law grew out of
the strong traditions of the civil rights
movement in the United States. “Sister Rosa” pays
tribute to the courage
of Rosa Parks,
the young girl who in 1954 refused to give
up her place on
a segregated Mississippi
bus to a white man and helped to launch
the civil
rights
struggle. The song first appeared on the Neville Brothers’ album, Yellow Moon, which was produced
by
Daniel Lanois.
11. “More Than A Paycheck” - Sweet Honey In The Rock (3.57 min)
Few groups have been more vocal in their support of civil rights and
environmental causes over the
years than Sweet
Honey In The Rock. Formed
by activist Bernice Johnson Reagon in Washington, DC,
in 1973, “More Than A
Paycheck”
comes from their 1982 album, Good News.
12. “Two Little Feet” - Karen Savōca (4.45 min)
The least-known
name on the album, the American singer-songwriter Karen Savōca recorded
“Two Little Feet” for an
all-female tribute album to Greg
Brown called Going Driftless that benefited
breast cancer research. The
track also features
guitarist Pete Heitzman, with whom she has worked
for
20 years.
13. “Getting There” - Mose Allison (4.29 min)
Mixing blues and
jazz, the great Mose Allison made his first recordings in the mid-1950s.
“Getting
There” first appeared on
the 1987 album, Ever Since the World
Ended, produced by former Steve
Miller Band keyboardist and songwriter, Ben Sidran.
14. “A Change Is Gonna Come” - Tina Turner
(with
Robert Cray)
(6.41 min)
Sam Cooke's memorable song, which is a metaphor for the
civil rights struggle, was long a staple
in Tina Turner's live shows.
This
version first appeared on Tina Turner’s Grammy winning Live In
Europe,
recorded in 1988 with Robert Cray.
15. “I Know I’ve Been Changed” - John Hammond
(with
Tom Waits)
(2.22 min)
Tom Waits is another who has supported Earthjustice in the past
and was keen to contribute to this project. “I Know I’ve
Been Changed” comes from
acoustic blues man John Hammond's album
Wicked Grin and was also produced by Waits.
16. “Happy Earthday” - Captain Beefheart (0.35 min)
It may only
be 35 seconds long, but “Happy Earthday” represents a major coup since it
is the first
new music recorded by
Captain Beefheart since 1982. He sung
it over the phone to the album's
compiler Mike Kappus, whose laugh (along
with
Beefheart’s) can be heard at the end.
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