W H O  W O U L D J E S U S  B O M B   ? ? ? Nashville Session Players

VIDEOS           CD LINER NOTES & SONG LYRICS           VIDEOS Ain't No Looking Back based on the life of American baseball legend Leroy Satchel Page, who is credited with first saying:  “Don't look back, something might be gaining on you”, apparently derived from the Old Testament story of Lot and his wife fleeing Sodom. Who Would Jesus Bomb? inspired by New Orleans blues artist Chris Thomas King's “What Would Jesus Do?”, as well as signs and bumper stickers everywhere; “signs, signs, everywhere there's signs”. Before They Care dedicated to We The People of the 21st Century, victims of the most corrupt, knee-jerk and totally incompetant congress in the history of the United States, if not the world. Where Were You? in memory of the students of Kent State University and Jackson State University, May, 1970; “Oh when will we ever learn?".  Dedicated to America's friend, Neil Young.  Inspired by Richard Holler's 1968 tribute Abraham, Martin and John, recorded by Dion, Emmylou Harris, others; based on the slave anthem Were You There?, traditional. Brother Martin dedicated to Coretta Scott King and Yolanda Denise King; for Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice Albertine King.  Intro and final two lines from the slave anthem Oh Freedom; traditional.  "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down their life for their friends." - Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Human and Civil Rights Future inspired by the “reverence for life” philosophy of Albert Schweitzer.  Dedicated to Jacques Yves Cousteau, Al Gore, Melissa Etheridge. . . and our future. Don't Do Nuthin' inspired by Stanley Mooneyham, former president of World Vision, International, who replied when asked in an interview why he would try to relieve hunger and disease in Africa, while it may seem so hopeless to even try: “Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything.” Within You and Me based on the far beyond liberal "good news" of Jesus of Nazareth.  Dedicated to Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose personal example reflects the message of Jesus more than all of the conservative Christian religious combined, to César Estrada Chávez and to Dolores Huerta: “Let my people go.” Stop the World second chorus inspired by Arlo Guthrie's "Last Train"; one of Woodstock Generation's best songs. Save Us All dedicated to Rev. Al; the only preacher in America worth listening to and, to Bob Dylan: "The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building burned" - Idiot Wind; Blood on the Tracks (1975). Homeless Joe loosely based on Genesis Chapter 37.  Written on July 7th, 2007 on the eve of the Live Earth Concerts for Climate Change.   Dedicated to Ravi Shankar and George Harrison and friends who showed the way, with the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.  Since then, there have been many major concerts held in the the United States and elsewhere, for a lot of worthy causes.  Yet, the sick and poor who live on the streets of major nations around the world, continue to be left to fend for themselves.  For many years, activists have tried in vain to organize a major benefit to challenge and inspire people to help the homeless on a national and global level.  Why can't music artists around the world seem to understand the public awareness necessity and national and global motivational importance, of staging significant benefits for the homeless men, women and children who camp under bridges, in parks and in the back alleys and public streets of our own so-called "developed world" backyards?  Homeless Statistics and information. Here in America for my friend Alex of Brooklyn, New York, who was on the bridge September 11, 2001 when the first tower was struck. Kingdom Come based the book of Revelation, which may be somewhat different than what you heard in Sunday school, but not all that different from what you may recently have seen on a PBS science program or read in the morning paper. So Shall it Be based on selected teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who is called Messiah.  When "Our Lady of Liberty" is "sailing away to sea", our false gods of Christianity and science will no longer be able to pretend that nobody warned us. Shepherd based on Psalm 23; many if not all of the Hebrew psalms were originally set to music and many, similar to American slave anthems (see note below), were intended for socio/political motivational purposes. NOTE:  The term "slave anthem" is used above because that is what they are, the very greatest of all human art, written on the hearts of the extremely oppressed; literature that cannot ever be equaled or fully appreciated by someone who has not themselves, been in similar circumstances.  To refer to them as "negro spirituals" or "spirituals" or anything else other than what they are, represents a travesty of justice and deliberate "white-washing" of the truth and, a callous and calculated disregard for the known shameful facts of American and world civilization history.

{ songs in alphabetical order ~ click on song titles for lyrics } Ain't No Lookin' Back ~ America Never Will ~ Before They Care ~ Boulevard ~ Brother Martin Don't Do Nuthin' ~ Everybody Fly Away ~ Future ~ Gotta Be a Little Bold ~ Here in America ~ Homeless Joe ~ Kingdom Come ~ Save Us All Shepherd ~ So Shall it Be ~ Stop the World ~ Where Were You? ~ Who Would Jesus Bomb? ~ Within You and Me

WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Copyright © 2008 by Freedom Tracks Music.  All Rights Reserved. Recorded and mixed at Denny Martin Studios, Nashville, Tennessee Mastered at Sonic Eden Studios by Jon Albani ~ Nashville, Tennessee Published by Freedom Tracks Music (ASCAP) ~ a Freedom Tracks recording ~ Nashville, TN

NASHVILLE SESSION PLAYERS Biographical Information { click here for session photos } Tired of being told by various and sundry music industry insiders that many of his songs are good in quality but will never be recorded in Nashville due to political and social content, songwriter Richard Aberdeen rounded up some of Nashville’s top musicians and session vocalists and began to record material content that many here in Nashville (and elsewhere) believe should be heard on 21st Century American radio, given the dire straits that members of both major political parties have managed to drag our nation into.  So far, four CDs have been released under the generic band title "Nashville Session Players". Our first effort, Homeless In America (20 tracks +2 free downloads), was released in June of 2005.  It contains multi-genre socio-political, serious and satirical issue-oriented material, as well as a few inspirational-type songs; issue addressed include homelessness and poverty, anti-war, congressional corruption, neo-con and religious wrong, healthcare, social security, unjust taxation, human, civil and native rights, gun control, globalization and more.  It has received airplay on several thousand radio stations throughout the United States and foreign markets.  Some of the tracks have also been used on various television programs and radio talk shows, such as Thom Hartmann’s Air America show, some in documentary films and, the song “Big Mack Donald” was selected for a recent VH-1 “Save The Music” charity CD release.  Songs from our other CDs below have also received growing radio airplay and film use as their dates of release allow for. We released our second CD, entitled Gonna Rise Up (19 tracks + 1 free download), in September of 2006.  It was produced by established country music songwriter and artist Razzy Bailey, who has written thirteen number one songs and recorded over fifteen albums.  Two of his own new songs are included on this second release and his seasoned country-blues vocals can be heard on four of the tracks.  This second multi-genre project is “populist” in slant and centers on the absolute national security necessity of affordable and quality healthcare for everyone within our borders (i.e., disease spreads), which is a growing national concern among U.S. citizens of all political persuasion.  Other issues addressed in this new project include congressional corruption, immigration and homeless war veterans and the title song, “Gonna Rise Up”, is a tribute for recent hurricane victims.  Most of the tracks on this new project are mid to up-tempo; there are tribute songs for Rosa Parks and Pete Seeger included, as well. Our third Nashville Session Players CD, American River (19 tracks +1 free download), was released in January of 2007.  Unlike our first two CDs, this third multi-genre collection is politically non-partisan and contains mostly inspirational song material.  With contributions from several outside writers, it was released as a tribute to Tara Cole, a Nashville homeless woman who was murdered for the 'crime' of being homeless.  Severe beatings of homeless people, sometimes leading to murder and, often filmed for both sadistic and profit-motivated reasons, is a most unfortunate, serious growing national problem.  Information about the Tara Cole incident can be found Here. Our fourth Nashville Session Players release, Who Would Jesus Bomb? (20 tracks), was released in September of 2008, as a free downloadable CD.  It was 'inspired' by the necessity of responding to the overt lies and covert crass propaganda machine of former presidential adviser Karl Rove and the Junior Bushwacked Administration and, the knee-jerk, inept and ongoing totally corrupt actions of the members of both houses of Congress in Washington D.C. (Samuel Clemens would have a field day).  This 20-track multi-genre release, which can be downloaded at no charge from our website, contains both satirical and more serious socio-political material, as well as several inspirational songs.  Included are tribute songs for Satchel Page, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus of Nazareth and the murdered students of 1970's Kent State and Jackson State universities. Our recordings have been featured in a Joseph Piner homeless documentary film, Uncertain Days: Living Homeless and in several television and film productions.  And, our CDs have been used by the National Coalition for the Homeless, New Orleans Common Ground Collective Relief and several other organizations as a fundraising tool.  We are open to select organizations using our recordings in this fashion at our cost and they may be used for no charge in approved video, film and television releases.  For fundraising opportunities, many free song downloads and more information, please visit our website:  www.FreedomTracks.com.

FREE DOWNLOAD MUSIC VIDEOS Who Would Jesus Bomb? Brother Martin        Here In America Homeless        Within You and Me Thought it Was a Jet Plane        Future Gotta Be a Little Bold        Save Us All Before They Care        Eyes of a Child Boulevard        Slow Train        Shepherd Where Were You?        Fly Away FREE DOWNLOAD ESSAY VIDEOS Is Atheism Scientific? Can Congress be Reformed? Does the NRA Defend the 2nd Amendment? Does the ACLU Defend the 1st Amendment? Should we Care if Everyone Has Health Care? Is there Really Life in the Future? Should We Lay Down Our Swords? Is the American Media Really Legitimate? Why are there Homeless Veterans in America? What is the Real Right-Wing Agenda? Can We Blame Swine Flu on Mexican Immigrants? Is Richard Dawkins Smarter Than Jesus? Does Belief in God Cause War? Who is Really Scamming Who? Who is Really Lying About Health Care? Is Obama Any Smarter Than Bush? Are People Really Sheep? Was Hurricane Katrina God's Judgment? What if You Were in Charge? How Accurate is the Bible? GOD: a perspective

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