Del McCoury Band & Friends - Moneyland
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Artist: Del McCoury Band & FriendsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Music Label: Mccoury Music
Soundtracks:
- Fireside Chat, Part I (Franklin D. Roosevelt) - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Breadline Blues 1932 (Bernard "Slim" Smith - Bernard 'Slim' Smith
- Moneyland (The Del McCoury Band) - Del McCoury
- Farmer's Blues (Marty Stuart/ Merle Haggard) - Merle Haggard / Marty Stuart
- What Happened? (Merle Haggard) - Merle Haggard
- Medley: I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home/ I'd Rather Live By the Side of the Road (Mac Wiseman) - Mac Wiseman
- When I'm 64 (The Del McCoury Band) - Del McCoury
- 40 Acres and A Fool (The Del McCoury Band) - Del McCoury
- A Train Not Running (Chris Knight) - Chris Knight
- You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive (Patty Loveless) - Patty Loveless
- Mama's Hungry Eyes (Emmylou Harris with Rodney Crowell) - Rodney Crowell / Emmylou Harris
- Carry Me Across the Mountain (Dan Tyminski) - Dan Tyminski
- If We Make It Through December (Merle Haggard) - Merle Haggard
- The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby & the Fairfield Four) - Bruce Hornsby
- Breadline Blues 2008 (Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, Tim O'Brien, and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings) - Del McCoury / Tim O'Brien / David Rawlings / Gillian Welch / Mac Wiseman
- Fireside Chat, Part 2 (Franklin D. Roosevelt) - Del McCoury
Music reviews of Moneyland
Music Review: Del McCoury Gets Political
Rating: 4 Stars
The liner notes to this album state that the only goal of this release is to send this message to politicians in Washington: "Over the last couple of decades, you have turned Rural America into a scene of devastation which can best be described as 'Forgotten America.' Not only do we believe it 'un-American' for Washington to be blind to the problems of small towns and rural America, we believe it immoral...and there are an ever-growing number of us out here who are ready to stand up against this corrupt neglect of our culture and people."
That message sets the tone for the music included on this disc. The 14 songs all look at small town America and how recent events have impacted this segment of the country. The first song is the original 1931 recording of "Breadline Blues 1932" by Bernard "Slim" Smith and concludes with a 2008 remake featuring Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman, Tim O'Brien, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings with additional lyrics. Bookending the music are two excerpts from FDR's Depressian-era Fireside Chats.
There are only a handful of songs that were recorded specifically for this project. In addition to "Breadline Blues 2008," there are three new tracks by the Del McCoury Band--the energetic title track; "40 Acres and a Fool," which tells the tale of a corporate executive who pretends to be a farmer; and just to keep the proceedings from getting too somber they do a rousing bluegrass version of the Beatles' "When I'm 64." [There is a fourth Del McCoury Band song which is an uncredited bonus track--"All Aboard" taken from 2001's DEL AND THE BOYS] The other two new recordings are a medley by Mac Wiseman along with Bruce Hornsby's reworking of his 1986 hit "The Way It Is" with the gospel group the Fairfield Four.
The rest of the songs date back as far as 1973 with Merle Haggard's pop crossover hit "If We Make It Through December" to 2007's THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS where Haggard laments "Everything Wal-Mart all the time/No more mom and pop five and dimes" on "What Happened." But whether it's Chris Knight lamenting the closing of the railroad line or Dan Tyminski despairing over the day-to-day struggle to survive, all of the songs hold together to paint a picture of America that is about as far removed from the American dream as you can get.
But again, the goal was not to create a mood of despair, but one of action. And as they sing in "Breadline Blues": "And when you place your vote/Please don't vote wrong/Vote away those blues/The breadline blues." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED [Running Time - 55:47]
Description of Moneyland
A timely multi-artist collection that offers a hard-hitting look at economic injustice through songs old and new. Framed by excerpts from two of Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-era "fireside chats," Moneyland revitalizes country and bluegrass music's connections to the lives of hardworking people in ways that honor the past, look to the future, and challenge the listeners to act in the present. Moneyland's musical bookends are found in Bernard "Slim" Smith's Depression era classic, "Breadline Blues," as the original 1932 recording at the start of the album is matched by a new "Breadline Blues 2008," featuring McCoury, the legendary Mac Wiseman, Grammy winner Tim O'Brien and the harmonies of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Between the two, the collection explores the hardships of rural and urban working people and their families through a thoughtful selection of new songs, neglected gems, and classic favorites performed by The Del McCoury Band, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Bruce Hornsby, and Chris Knight, among others.Country CDs
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