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a song for Tara Cole CD Liner Notes & Song Lyrics

	TARA "Little Bit" COLE On an August summer night in 2006, a young homeless female named Tara Cole was sleeping on a wharf at Riverfront Park in Nashville, Tennessee, when two men stepped out of the shadows and rolled her into the Cumberland River.  Witnesses tried, but were unable to rescue her. Tara's body was found ten days later when the city, after several nights of ongoing vigil and much prodding from local advocates, finally moved an entertainment barge.  According to media sources, city and police officials later blamed the owner of the barge for the nearly two weeks it took to search for her body, even though it is common knowledge and practice that police power and priority trumps private property rights at a suspected crime scene.  The leader of a Nashville volunteer K9 Search & Rescue Unit wrote a letter to the Vice Mayor stating she had notified her supervisor she was "95% certain" Tara Cole's body was under the barge and that the barge was not moved until several days after her notification.  She was later removed from her position for writing this letter; in fact, for being a conscientious whistleblower; authorities of course, deny this was the reason. This is the second known deliberate killing of a homeless Nashville citizen within the past two years, both apparently murdered for no reason other than being poor.  A recent segment on the CBS television program "60 Minutes", revealed that deliberately injuring and murdering homeless individuals is a growing perverse national problem in cities across the United States; a sort of sick underground entertainment "sport", often filmed for later internet and video distribution.  More information
	{ songs in alphabetical order ~ click on song titles for lyrics } Ballad of Tara Cole ~~~ Believe in Love ~~~ Country Girl Who Was a Princess (Diana's Song) ~~~ Day By Day ~~~ Eyes of a Child ~~~ Footprints Across Sands of Time ~~~ Genuine Sweet Company ~~~ If I Had a Billion Dollars ~~~ Like We Did Back Then ~~~ Me and My Dad ~~~ Pluto ~~~ Solomon's Song ~~~ Some Soldiers Return ~~~ Song of Salvation ~~~ Tara Cole Reprise ~~~ Thought it Was a Jet Plane ~~~ 'Till We Get it Right ~~~ Time Has Come ~~~ Train to Nashville ~~~ Unless You Can Pay the Price Ballad of Tara Cole based on the tragic story of Tara Cole, a homeless Nashville, Tennessee citizen who was deliberately murdered for the 'crime' of being poor. Believe in Love based on First Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13. Some Soldiers Return for the family of LCDR Michael Scott Speicher, whose plane went down January 17th, 1991, the first night of the Operation Desert Storm air war.  No part of Lieutenant Speicher’s body has ever been found and he is presumed to have survived the crash and been captured by Iraqi forces.  His official status remained KIA-BNR, killed in action—body not recovered, until January 11th, 2001, when it was officially changed to MIA—missing in action.  The most liberal and most conservative of families, losing a loved one to war, share a same common loss, cutting deep beyond all ability of words to describe. Solomon's Song based on recollections of Mother Theresa by Sir Bob Geldof, as detailed in his book Is That It?. Country Girl Who Was a Princess (Diana's Song) based on the life and example of Diana; Princess of Wales. Me and My Dad for Thomas Johnson, Sr..."down home on the family farm"; Walker County, Alabama. Thought it Was a Jet Plane inspired by a Mark Twain story, where he describes how a steamboat seen for the first time coming down the Mississippi River at night, all lighted up spewing fire and smoke, is mistaken for Elijah's chariot.  Also inspired by Sam Cooke:  "...change is gonna come, oh, yes it is."

AMERICAN RIVER: a song for Tara Cole Copyright © 2006 by Freedom Tracks Music.  All Rights Reserved. Recorded and mixed at CCC Studio Works, Forrest City, AR; Dave Smith Studios, Nashville, TN; Denny Martin Studios, Nashville, TN; DKB Studios, Boise, ID; Razzy’s Hit House, Goodlettsville, TN Smash Recording Studios, Nashville, TN; Song Cellar Productions, Nashville, TN Mastered at Sonic Eden Studios by Jon Albani / Nashville, TN 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 certain members of both major political parties have managed to drag our nation into.  Our first effort, “Homeless In America: Twenty-One Songs of Social Content for the 21st Century”, has received radio airplay on many independent stations throughout the United States, Canada, England and other European markets and a few Asian 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 a new DVD documentary on the homeless and the song “Big Mack Donald” was included in a recent VH-1 “Save The Music” charity CD release. Two of the vocalists heard on this first CD release have now gone on to sign major label contracts and one has recorded an independent release with a nationally known producer, while most of the musicians who participated perform with and do session work for various well-known main-stream country and other artists.  In order to protect mainstream careers from political repercussions, we have collectively named the participating musicians and vocalists “Nashville Session Players”, which is a true and correct name for them, because that is what they do for a living.  This is the name they should be referred to when played on radio and mentioned in other media, regardless of which song is being performed or otherwise, is referred to. We released our second CD, entitled “Gonna Rise Up”, 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 project containing 19 songs plus an additional free download track, is “populist” in slant and centers on health-care, which is a growing 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 was released in January of 2007.  Unlike our first two releases, this third collection of nineteen tracks is politically non-partisan and contains mostly inspirational songs.  It is a tribute to Tara Cole, a Nashville homeless woman who was murdered for the "crime" of being homeless.  Information about the Tara Cole incident can be found at http://freedomtracks.com/taracole.html Our recordings are currently being 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 releases.  For more information on fundraising opportunities, Please Click Here or call 800-992-8084.

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