This is an add from yesterday - we had to wait for the NPR piece to run (you may have heard it yesterday around 4:30-5pm) and we can post the free music now
Our pals from These United States thought our MCB readers would appreciate this little drop on the anti-blog so check it out....TUS was here in Detroit and played the Lager House where MCB's Scott Strelecki got a chance to shoot some photos and interview the band
"Another chapter in Christian Kiefer’s Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies unfolds, as the promised “free 44th song” for President-elect Obama becomes available this Friday.
“Someone to Wake,” penned by Kiefer and featuring Centro-Matic vocalist Will Johnson, is a retrospective of eight years of national and international turmoil, positioning Obama as a voice of the future.
“It was the only song that did not have the benefit of an actual Presidency to comment upon,” Kiefer notes. “Still, the sea change in positive thinking is a remarkable contrast to the previous administration. That’s songworthy material.”
Listeners should check http://www.43presidencies.com/ for links to the song starting Friday, January 16th 2009.
“Someone to Wake” includes an original portrait of Obama by Rama Hughes, and a lyric and credits page that accompanies the box set’s full color book.
The song will be unveiled live January 17th at Washington, DC’s Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, during an evening devoted to the project that features Kiefer’s collaborators Jefferson Pitcher and J. Matthew Gerken, as well as guests Nellie McKay, Tim Fite, These United States, Jukebox the Ghost, Laura Burhenn, Denison Witmer, Reid Maclean, Silver Darling, Joe Pug, and many more."