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Lift Every Voice Digital Download

Lift Every Voice Digital Download

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This is not a CD, but a free digital download. You can have it.

But by downloading it, and listening to it, you are promising everyone who made it that you will donate to the ACLU. Or Relief International. Or the SPLC, or Planned Parenthood, or the Brady Campaign, or the NRDC, Unicef, the Lowcountry Ministries… find a worthy organization and give. Or, better yet, join. Become a card-carrying member. Sign up on their mailing list. Better still: volunteer.
Whatever you decide to do, it’s scout’s honor.

We all thank you.

  1. Song For Michael Brown
  2. Maryam on the Train
  3. Jesus Wants to Take Your Guns Away
  4. Take Down Your Flag
  5. Lift Every Voice

I wrote these songs for free (except, of course, “Lift Every Voice”). I sang & played them for free. Nathan Kilen played drums for free. Chauntee and Monique Ross sang, and played (respectively) the violin & cello, for free. They are called SistaStrings & you can find them around Milwaukee. John & Carrie Tanner donated time at their studio, Tanner Monagle, in Milwaukee. Ric Probst donated his time to engineer and mix. Jon Lamb & Neil Biondich donated their time for additional engineering. Kate Donaldson did the layout for free. Ben Hubbird of CD Baby & Chad Fondren of Disc Makers helped to get it made.

When I was little I learned “Lift Every Voice” at Saint Anne’s middle school, in my neighborhood on the Northwest side of Milwaukee. All of us on the playground had a typical, childish, & mercifully limited understanding of the invented concept of race. We all just sang the song. I’ve been working on understanding this terribly beautiful country since then, and will always continue.

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