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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 driving 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.
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NASHVILLE SESSION PLAYERS
Biographical Information
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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, along with some of Nashville’s top musicians and independent
artists, 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 down 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.
We released a satire single focusing on the unparalleled corruption of the Trump Administration,
appropriately entitled Trumpty Dumpty, in January of 2018. A
single released in February of 2019, Elvis is Dead, contrasts the simpler and easier
times in the "happy days" of the 1950's and 60's compared to the unparalleled disparity of wealth and mass corruption
of an American 21st Century of global connectivity, science and wonder (as if we're really any better off. . . who's
kidding Who). A third single released in April of 2019, Rolling On Down the Road, is a unique philosophical multi-genre
blend of rock, blues, roots and Americana with R&B harmonies. A fourth country/pop single release, Love is Free, was released on February 21st, 2020.
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.
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