Give US Your Poor

Give US Your Poor

Give US Your Poor
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Performer: Bruce Springsteen
Performer: Madeleine Peyroux
Performer: Pete Seeger
Performer: Dan Zanes
Performer: Jon Bon Jovi
Performer: Buffalo Tom
Performer: Mario Frangoulis
Performer: Danny Glover
Performer: Jewel
Performer: Sonya Kitchell
Performer: Natalie Merchant
Performer: Mighty Sam McClain
Performer: Keb' Mo'
Performer: Bonnie Raitt
Performer: Tim Robbins
Performer: John Sebastian
Performer: Michelle Shocked
Performer: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Music Label: Appleseed Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Land of 10,000 Homeless - Minnesota - audio documentary set to music
  2. Show Me the Way - Jon Bon Jovi & Mighty Sam McClain
  3. Baby Don't Let Me Go Homeless - Keb' Mo' & Eagle Park Slim
  4. There Is No Good Reason - Natalie Merchant & Friends
  5. Hobo's Lullaby - Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger
  6. So Lonely - Sonya Kitchell
  7. Becky's Tune - Michelle Shocked and Michael Sullivan
  8. Walking the Dog - Bonnie Raitt & Weepin' Willie Robinson
  9. My Name Is Not `Those People'" (spoken, with music) - Danny Glover
  10. I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Madeleine Peyroux
  11. Portable Man - Del Goldfarb & John Sebastian
  12. Boll Weevil - Dan Zanes & Kyla Middleton
  13. Ink Falling (Father Outside)- Buffalo Tom
  14. Stranger Blues - Sweet Honey in the Rock
  15. 1,000 Miles Away - Jewel
  16. Impossible Boulevard (spoken excerpt, with music) - Tim Robbins
  17. Feels Like Home - Mario Frangoulis
  18. When We Left Minneapolis" (spoken, with music) - Danny Glover
  19. "Here and Now" - Mark Erelli

Music reviews of Give US Your Poor

Music Review: Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? - The Real Story Of Homelessness In Song
Rating: 5 Stars

Sure, I have been homeless. Oh, not the desperate, day in, day out, year in, year old homelessness that drives the stories in this compilation of musical and storytelling artistic efforts to get people who are not homeless, have never been homeless, and hope never to be homeless to pay attention. And not just walk away, around, or over the problem. I have been homeless enough though , and in dire enough straits at times to have a pretty good sense that the streets are not for dreaming, or for living in, and are definitely to be avoided at all costs. Those are mean streets out there, brothers and sisters. And asking for the occasional spare change, spare cigarette, spare anything is just the tip of the iceberg.

But, hell, let some real folks tell the story. And that is what they do here, interspersed with some celebrity performances, by some people that Appleseed Records (and U/Mass-Boston) has been fortunate enough to garner in and who, in their own ways, give a damn. Especially give a listen to "Land of 10,000 Homeless" -Minnesota" and the story that brother has to tell and Danny Glover's recitation of "My Name Is Not "Those People"'. For those who are moved by celebrity, listen to Bonnie Raitt and Weepin' Willie Robinson on "Walking The Dog" and Sweet Honey In The Rock on "Stranger Blues". And for those who want to get mist eyed about the romance of the road- hobo style, at least vicariously, give a listen to Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger on a song made famous (although not written by) Woody Guthrie, "Hobo's Lullaby".

Let me finish with this little thought. I grew up dirt-poor and it was a long time before I knew, for real, that there was some other condition. One of the virtues, and maybe the only one, of being poor is that the vicissitudes, the ups and downs, of the world economy kind of pass me by, personally. However, I have elected, and rightly so, to fight so that poor is a word that is placed in the archives of human history through the struggle for our communist future where being homeless will be merely a relic of a barbaric age. But just in case, I will keep myself in shape. Brother (sister), can you spare a dime?

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Description of Give US Your Poor

17 exclusive new tracks by Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger, Jon Bon Jovi, Madeleine Peyroux, Bonnie Raitt, and other stars, many in collaboration with currently or formerly homeless musicians on benefit CD to fight homelessness!

Two years in the making, this fund-raising CD created by Appleseed Recordings and the national Give US Your Poor organization at UMass Boston brings together established musicians, socially committed actors and currently or previously homeless musicians in a collection of mostly exclusive new recordings that address the ongoing crisis of homelessness in America. There are frequent collaborations between the stars, who donated their time and music, and their formerly or currently homeless brethren on songs that often reflect on existence without guaranteed lodging, food, and the simple necessities of human existence.

There is a broad spectrum of artists, genres and styles on Give US Your Poor that makes the CD a moving, engrossing, and enjoyable, as well as educational, experience. Among the performers:

Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger join together for a second time (they also share a track on Appleseed's new Sowing the Seeds label compilation). to perform the folk classic, "Hobo's Lullaby."

Jon Bon Jovi represents the "arena rock" camp, pairing up with the formerly indigent Mighty Sam McClain on the rousing, gospel-inflected "Show Me the Way."

For the AAA/Starbucks crowd, there are new tracks from the latest sophisticated, jazz-influenced and popular female singer-songwriters - Madeleine Peyroux and Sonya Kitchell - and from their more established musical sisters, including Bonnie Raitt (performing a rowdy version of "Walking the Dog" with bluesman Weepin' Willie Robinson), Natalie Merchant (surrounded by six veterans of homelessness), Michelle Shocked, and Jewel.

Other contributors include bluesman Keb' Mo', the famed political/gospel a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, acclaimed "kid's music" rocker Dan Zanes, newly revived indie band Buffalo Tom, opera singer Mario Frangoulis, and actor/activists Tim Robbins and Danny Glover.

You will also hear music by and read about those whom society has tried to ignore, such as teenager Nichole Cooper and 11-year-old Kyla Middleton, formerly homeless military veterans Michael Sullivan and Weepin' Willie, and outspoken poet/advocate Julia K. Dinsmore, whose two contributions are read by Danny Glover.

The 28-page booklet accompanying Give US You Poor not only contains "the story behind the stories" of these songs and performers, but also presents an array of heartbreaking and infuriating statistics about homelessness in America.


This compilation that spans genres and generations shines its spotlight on homelessness, showing that the problem remains as pervasive as ever, though it has been supplanted by other crises as the issue du jour. In collaboration with the Give Us Your Poor organization at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Appleseed folk label has paired artists like Jon Bon Jovi with the down-home soul of Mighty Sam McClain, Bruce Springsteen with Pete Seeger (the seminal influence on Springsteen's recent Seeger Sessions) and Michelle Shocked with Michael Sullivan, her longtime friend and a formerly homeless Vietnam vet. Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, and Dan Zanes are among the other artists who team with singers who are or have been homeless, while actors Danny Glover and Tim Robbins provide spoken-word testimony. The songs of Randy Newman inspire very different treatments, with Madeleine Peyroux investing "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" with a piano-ballad intimacy, and Mario Frangoulis giving "Feels Like Home" an operatic grandeur. With the essays and extensive annotation accompanying these recordings, almost all of them previously unreleased, no one who encounters this package is likely to remain unmoved. --Don McLeese

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