Various Artists Buffett/Eastwood - Mark Twain Words and Music [CD]
Mark Twain Words and Music
Various Artists Buffett/Eastwood
CD Rel Date: 1981-11-01
Words & Music is a double-CD with a 40-page booklet of liner notes telling Twain's life in spoken word in song. Voices on this project include Jimmy Buffett (as Huck Finn), Garrison Keillor (as the narrator), Clint Eastwood (as Mark Twain), and Angela Lovell (as Susy Clemens). There are 14 story segments and 13 corresponding songs performed by Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, the Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Grammy Award-winner Carl Jackson 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 and 175th anniversary of his birth.
Tracklist:
- Hello Yourself, and See How You Like It
- When Halley Came to Jackson
- Hannibal, Missouri, Where My Boyhood Was Spent
- Better Times A' Comin'
- He Agreed to Teach Me to the Mississippi River
- Run Mississippi
- Several Years of Variegated Vagabondizing
- A Cowboy in His Soul
- It Liberates the Vandal to Travel 1
- Safe Water 1
- You Ain't Ever to Love Anybody But Me 1
- I Wandered By a Brookside 1
- It Was a Mighty Nice Family 1
- Beautiful Dreamer 1
- Don't Scrunch Up Like That, Huckleberry 1
- Huck Finn Blues 1
- The Crows Would Gather on the Railing and Talk About Me 1
- Indian Crow 1
- So Wounded, So Broken-Hearted 2
- Love Is on Our Side 2
- Wheresoever She Was, There Was Eden 2
- I Know You By Heart 2
- My Conscience Got a Stirring Me Up Hotter Than Ever 2
- Ink 2
- The Report of My Death Was An Exaggeration 2
- Comet Ride 2
- The Truth, Mainly