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Mark Twain var americana
Datum: 2011-10-03

Det går an å hevde at forfatteren Mark Twain (eg. Samuel Langhorne Clemmens), som levde fra 1835 til 1910, er en åndelig grunnlegger av musikken vi kaller americana.

Produsenten/ musikeren Carl Jackson vil antakelig gå god for denne påstanden, han står bak utgivelsen »Mark Twain: Words and Music«, i samarbeid med Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum i Hannibal, Missouri.

Der historien om Twain veves sammen med sanger.

Mark Twains stemme ivaretas av Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Buffet er hans litterære kreasjon Huck Finn, Angela Lovell er hans kone, Suzy Clemmens, og Garrison Keilor er forteller.

På sangersiden bidrar bl.a. Emmylou Harris, Rhonda Vincent, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill og Ricky Skaggs.

Plata kan bestilles fra Village Records (villagerecords.com)

Her er innholdet:

DISC 1

1. “Hello yourself, and see how you like it…”;
2. When Halley Came to Jackson ~ Emmylou Harris;
3. “Hannibal, Missouri, where my boyhood was spent…”;
4. Better Times a’ Comin’ ~ Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver;
5. “He agreed to teach me the Mississippi River…”;
6. Run Mississippi ~ Rhonda Vincent;
7. “Several years of variegated vagabondizing…”;
8. A Cowboy in His Soul ~ Bradley Walker;
9. “It liberates the vandal to travel…”;
10. Safe Water ~ Carl Jackson;
11. “You ain’t ever to love anybody but me…”;
12. I Wandered by a Brookside ~ The Church Sisters;
13. “It was a mighty nice family…”;
14. Beautiful Dreamer ~ Sheryl Crow;

DISC To:

15. “Don’t scrunch up like that, Huckleberry…”;
16. Huck Finn Blues ~ Brad Paisley;
17. “The crows would gather on the railing and talk about me…”;
18. Indian Crow ~ Marty Raybon;
19. “So wounded, so broken-hearted…”;
20. Love is On Our Side ~ Val Storey;
21. “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden…”;
22. I Know You By Heart ~ Vince Gill;
23. “My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever…”;
24. Ink ~ Joe Diffie;
25. “The report of my death was an exaggeration…”;
26. Comet Ride ~ Ricky Skaggs;
27. »The truth, mainly...«;

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