Mark Twain: Words & Music [CD]
~ Mark Twain: Words & Music

Product Reviews

Mark Twain's Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal has released a celebration of Twain's life and work that, if a bit muted and careful, is a pleasing journey through the world of Twain, author of the greatest novel in the American literary canon, Huckleberry Finn, a novel whose themes of class, race, and freedom continue to be central concerns of 21st century America. Narrated by Garrison Keillor, with Clint Eastwood providing the voice of Twain and Jimmy Buffett giving voice to Huck Finn, and music contributions from country and bluegrass musicians Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson, Rhonda Vincent, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, and lone pop participant Sheryl Crow, it all adds up to a scrubbed-up and shiny version of Twain's life and thoughts, many of which still sound wise and astute in a contemporary America that Twain undoubtedly would have recognized from his own. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

Product Notes

Mark Twain: Words & Music is a double-CD with a 40-page booklet of linernotes telling Twain's life in spoken word in song. Voices on this projectinclude Jimmy Buffett (as Huck Finn), Garrison Keillor (as the narrator),Clint Eastwood (as Mark Twain), and Angela Lovell (as Susy Clemens). Thereare 14 story segments and 13 corresponding songs performed by EmmylouHarris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, CarlJackson, The Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, ValStorey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie and Ricky Skaggs. Grammy Award-winner CarlJackson produced the project as a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home &Museum in Hannibal, Missouri to commemorate 2010, the 100th anniversary of Twain's death.

Track Listing

		Track #		Title
1.		1		"Hello Yourself, And See How You Like It..."
1.		2		When Halley Came To Jackson
1.		3		"Hannibal, Missouri, Where My Boyhood Was Spent..."
1.		4		Better Times A' Comin'
1.		5		"He Agreed To Teach Me To The Mississippi River..."
1.		6		Run Mississippi
1.		7		"Several Years Of Variegated Vagabondizing..."
1.		8		A Cowboy In His Soul
1.		9		"It Liberates The Vandal To Travel..."
1.		10		Safe Water
1.		11		"You Ain't Ever To Love Anybody But Me..."
1.		12		I Wandered By A Brookside
1.		13		"It Was A Mighty Nice Family..."
1.		14		Beautiful Dreamer
2.		1		"Don't Scrunch Up Like That, Huckleberry..."
2.		2		Huck Finn Blues
2.		3		"The Crows Would Gather On The Railing And Talk About Me..."
2.		4		Indian Crow
2.		5		"So Wounded, So Broken-Hearted..."
2.		6		Love Is On Our Side
2.		7		"Wheresoever She Was, There Was Eden..."
2.		8		I Know You By Heart
2.		9		"My Conscience Got A Stirring Me Up Hotter Than Ever..."
2.		10		Ink
2.		11		"The Report Of My Death Was An Exaggeration..."
2.		12		Comet Ride
2.		13		"The Truth, Mainly..."
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