Give US Your Poor (album)
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| Give US Your Poor | |
 Compilation Album by Various Artists | |
| Released | September 25, 2007 (US) September 25, 2007 (France) September 28, 2007 (Denmark) September 24, 2007 (UK) |
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| Label | Appleseed Recordings |
| Length | 1:14:37 |
| Other | 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 |
Tracks
| Give US Your Poor — Compilation Album | |||||||||
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| Title | Artist | Length | |||||||
| 1. | Land of 10,000 Homeless - Minnesota | 4:00 | |||||||
| 2. | Show Me the Way | Jon Bon Jovi & Mighty Sam McClain | 3:38 | ||||||
| 3. | Baby Don't Let Me Go Homeless | Keb Mo & Eagle Park Slim | 3:12 | ||||||
| 4. | There Is No Good Reason | Natalie Merchant & Friends | 4:43 | ||||||
| 5. | Hobo's Lullaby | Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger | 5:11 | ||||||
| 6. | So Lonely | Sonya Kitchell | 5:38 | ||||||
| 7. | Becky's Tune | Michelle Shocked & Michael Sullivan | 3:42 | ||||||
| 8. | Walking the Dog | Bonnie Raitt & Weepin' Willie Robinson | 3:47 | ||||||
| 9. | My Name Is Not "Those People" (spoken with music) | Danny Glover | 3:22 | ||||||
| 10. | I Think It's Going to Rain Today | Madeleine Peyroux | 3:43 | ||||||
| 11. | Portable Man | Del Goldfarb & John Sebastian | 2:51 | ||||||
| 12. | Boll Weevil | Dan Zanes & Kyla Middleton | 4:06 | ||||||
| 13. | Ink Falling (Father Outside) | Buffalo Tom | 3:52 | ||||||
| 14. | Stranger Blues | Sweet Honey in the Rock | 5:24 | ||||||
| 15. | 1,000 Miles Away ((from Goodbye Alice in Wonderland)) | Jewel | 3:47 | ||||||
| 16. | Impossible Boulevard (spoken excerpt with music) | Tim Robbins | 4:35 | ||||||
| 17. | Feels Like Home | Mario Frangoulis | 4:31 | ||||||
| 18. | When We Left Minneapolis (spoken with music) | Danny Glover | 1:08 | ||||||
| 19. | Here and Now | Mark Erelli | 3:27 | ||||||
| 1:14:37 | |||||||||