In December
2004, shortly after the U.S. presidential election, Adam Levin wrote a
song as a poetic expression of the political and social climate in the
United States so evident at the time of the election and its
aftermath. It was performed with Wendy Boulding at the Department of Peace
Campaign's New York City rallies in 2005. Then that following August, Hurricane Katrina
devastated the Gulf coast and its people. The federal
government's inadequate preparation and response has been roundly
criticized -- as was its "spin" in the absence of assistance.
Some environmentalists have linked the intensity of such natural
disasters to levy disrepair, forestry removal, and unregulated
industrial emissions and global warming. The earlier song,
entitled Land of the Free
(on Adam and Wendy's CD A Different Page),
seemed to some observers a prophetic, vivid account of the social,
political, and even physical impact of that disaster.
Click on the song's audio
here and hear it for yourself, and visit the "Land of the Free"
webpage at
myspace.com/TheLandOfTheFree.
Note: For a more accurate
representation of this recording's sound & instrumentation
as heard over full stereo speakers, listen to its audio sample with a
headset.
I look out across the land land of the free I saw it there yesterday but now it's gone I walk out across the sand Our home by the sea has all been washed away
Does anybody know where did it go? Now all that I find are
broken pieces When did those seeds we
sowed cease to grow? Whenever it rains it only
freezes
I listen and all I hear are cries for life by those who deliver death and close their doors I watch the truth
disappear wrong pass for right It doesn't make any sense
Does anybody know where did it go? I can't seem to find a
rhyme or reason When did those seeds we
sowed cease to grow? Or will they grow back
another season?
Someday we'll practice
what we're preaching Someday we'll live what
we've been teaching Our hearts and minds
finally meeting
Does anybody know where did we go? Soon we will find the
missing pieces and all those seeds we
sowed again will grow when all of the coldness
finally ceases
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Adam Levin featuring Wendy
Boulding
Shades of jazz,
classical, rock, pop, funk and rhythm-and-blues,
ranging from the state of the heart to the state of the world,
with a sense of irony, poetry, spirituality and storytelling
Eclectic retrospective with various artists from the school of Randy
Crawford, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Annette
Peacock, the Police, Steely Dan, Sting and Frank Zappa
Innovative jazz/classical instrumentals with "unplugged" solo piano and
saxophones, and elements of Lyle Mays, Dave Stewart, Allan Holdsworth,
Steve Hackett, Steve Reich and Donald Fagen
Live(onTape)
Passionate and soulful concert performances reminiscent of adventurous
music by Burt Bacharach, Genesis, Todd Rundgren, Sade, Stephen
Sondheim, Steely Dan, Brian Wilson and Stevie Wonder