Jefferson Starship - Jefferson's Tree of Liberty
source: http://soundmp3s.com/album175880/jefferson-starship/jefferson-s-tree-of-liberty/
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Back in the mists of time Jefferson Airplane were one of the more overtly political of the San Francisco bands and a great deal of their music bordered on folk as well as the psychedelic sounds they were famous for. When they 'evolved’ into Jefferson Starship and then into Starship they lost much of the political and social bias they had started out with.
And so we are into the 21st Century and Paul Kantner and David Freiberg have got their shit back together and delivered the folk album that Airplane always wanted to. The songs are stirring and militant and using musicians like David LaFlamme, Jack Casady, Marty Balin guarantees that the music will be delivered properly. There is a a great breadth of styles in evidence as well as some surprising selections – Brendan Behan’s 'Royal Canal’ for instance and a magnificent mashup of Marley's 'Redemption Song' and Lennon's 'Imagine'.
Cathy Richardson does a great job of not being Grace Slick and the strong emphasis on vocal performances get the core of the songs over to the listener as the writers intended.
Mixing in traditional numbers such as 'Follow The Drinking Gourd’ with songs by Dylan (Chimes Of Freedom) or Phil Ochs (Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore) or Woody Guthrie (Pastures of Plenty) they use the songs to state that Americans can still hold a conscience and even in the dark days of GW Bush there are still some out there who believe in the spirit of 1776.
There may be a little voice saying that this earnestness should have been heard before the rise of the Obama generation but that might be a little churlish. This is a real statement from the heart and you have to respect that.
And so we are into the 21st Century and Paul Kantner and David Freiberg have got their shit back together and delivered the folk album that Airplane always wanted to. The songs are stirring and militant and using musicians like David LaFlamme, Jack Casady, Marty Balin guarantees that the music will be delivered properly. There is a a great breadth of styles in evidence as well as some surprising selections – Brendan Behan’s 'Royal Canal’ for instance and a magnificent mashup of Marley's 'Redemption Song' and Lennon's 'Imagine'.
Cathy Richardson does a great job of not being Grace Slick and the strong emphasis on vocal performances get the core of the songs over to the listener as the writers intended.
Mixing in traditional numbers such as 'Follow The Drinking Gourd’ with songs by Dylan (Chimes Of Freedom) or Phil Ochs (Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore) or Woody Guthrie (Pastures of Plenty) they use the songs to state that Americans can still hold a conscience and even in the dark days of GW Bush there are still some out there who believe in the spirit of 1776.
There may be a little voice saying that this earnestness should have been heard before the rise of the Obama generation but that might be a little churlish. This is a real statement from the heart and you have to respect that.
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David LaFlame ? Wasn't he and Linda LaFlame and Patty Santos a Woodstock hippie group: Beautiful Day ? I've got their first 2 albums on disk under the San Francisco Sound label. They're awesome. Makes me harken for the days when my mates and I would get out the brown hashish and Window Pane and vibe to their psychedelic gypsy music. Gotta love those violin strings. "And time is too slow for those who wait, and time is too long for those who grieve, and time is too short for those that laugh. But for those who love time is Eternity." Yes life IS a surrealistic pillow.
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