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Songs Inspired by Literature: Benefit CD
- features 10 winning songs from our international songwriting
competition as well as several songs donated by world-class
songwriters: Bruce Springsteen, Suzanne Vega, Ray Manzarek,
Grace Slick and Aimee Mann The CD booklet features those
literary works, highlighting the unique connection that
those works share with the songs they've inspired.
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Buying
the SIBL Benefit CD will help raise money for programs
like The Literacy Council that teach and/or promote
reading. Above all, it builds awareness about the growing
rate of illiteracy in this country and around the world.
CALL
541-4219 TO
LEARN MORE ABOUT
PURCHASING
A SIBL BENEFIT CD.
CD's
will be sold for $12.00, with $7.00 going directly to The
Literacy Council of San Luis Obispo County.
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TRACK
LIST
1 Jill Tracy - Evil Night Together Inspired by Luc Sante's
historical account Low Life
2 Deb Talan - Tell Your Story Walking Inspired by Jonathan
Lethem's novel Motherless Brooklyn
3 Aimee Mann - Ghost World Inspired by Dan Clowes' graphic
novel Ghost World
4 Bob Hillman - Tolstoy Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novel War
and Peace
5 Lynn Harrison - Einstein's Brain Inspired by Michael Paterniti's
memoir Driving Mr. Albert
6 Grace Slick - ReJoyce Inspired by James Joyces' novel Ulysses
7 Justin Wells - The Last Temptation of Odysseus Inspired
by Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey"
8 Essence - Still Crying Inspired by Mark Levine's poem "Work
Song"
9 Suzanne Vega - Calypso Inspired by Homer's epic poem "The
Odyssey"
10 Deborah Pardes - 7th Step Inspired by Frank McCourt's memoir
Angela's Ashes
11 Scarth Locke - Bucking Bronco Inspired by Shel Silverstein's
children's poem "Bucking Bronco"
12 Ray Manzarek - He Can't Come Today Inspired by Samuel Beckett's
play Waiting for Godot
13 Anny Celsi - T'was Her Hunger Brought Me Down Inspired
by Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie
14 David LaMotte - Dark and Deep Inspired by Robert Frost's
poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
15 Diane Zeigler - The Legend of Enoch Arden Inspired by Alfred
Lord Tennyson's poem "Legend of Enoch Arden"
16 Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad Inspired by John
Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath |
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