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January 13, 2012
Also a-Changin’: Saving World With Songs
By DAVID PEISNER
It was never supposed to be this big.
When Amnesty International enlisted Jeff Ayeroff and Julie Yannatta to oversee a benefit album celebrating the organization’s 50th anniversary this year, the plan was for something on the scale of its 2007 benefit album, “Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.” “Instant Karma,” which Mr. Ayeroff and Ms. Yannatta also produced, is a two-CD, 23-song collection of artists like U2, Green Day and R.E.M. performing John Lennon’s songs. It raised more than $4 million. So how did the organization’s latest project, “Chimes of Freedom” — which features Bob Dylan songs played by a genre-busting, cross-generational cast — become a sprawling 4-CD, 73-track (76 online) behemoth?
“This was like a rent party,” Ms. Yannatta said of making “Chimes of Freedom,” which is be released on Jan. 24. “We said: ‘Like other nonprofits in this economy Amnesty needs money. Would you help?’ Just about everyone said yes. You send out invitations, and when everybody shows up — and people start calling, saying, ‘We’d like to do a track too’ — it grows.”
Even a partial list of contributors is jaw dropping: Sting, Adele, My Morning Jacket, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Cage the Elephant, Kesha, Miley Cyrus. All the songs but one are previously unreleased, and some of the most interesting tracks — Silversun Pickups’ spacey, hopeful “Not Dark Yet,” an electro-pop-tinged “I Want You” by the Mexican singer-songwriter Ximena Sariñana — display the kind of creative reinvention a project like this can inspire. But the expansive lineup created a challenge.
“It’s hard to get people to buy one CD these days, let alone four,” Ms. Yannatta said.
Amnesty deserves some credit for cementing the bond between popular music and social activism. It staged variety shows in the late 1970s and early ’80s called the Secret Policeman’s Balls, which Bono and Bob Geldof have cited as fundamental in awakening their social consciences. After the star-studded Ethiopian famine relief benefits, Band Aid, Live Aid and We Are the World, in the mid-’80s, Amnesty began tours in 1986 and 1988, featuring U2, Bruce Springsteen and others, which helped bring its cause into the pop-culture mainstream.
By the 1990s it seemed there was no issue that couldn’t be addressed by gathering sympathetic artists for an album or concert. But as music sales have fallen nearly 50 percent in the last decade, and the industry works feverishly to develop new revenue sources, it’s not clear that charities have kept their fingers on the pulse of the music business.
“A lot of people say, ‘I want to do a benefit record for our school’ or something,” said Michael Franti, who covers “Subterranean Homesick Blues” on “Chimes of Freedom.” “I always say: ‘Do you understand the economics of selling CDs in our current climate?’ ”
As Ms. Yannatta and Mr. Ayeroff looked for a record label to release “Chimes of Freedom,” they discovered how much the market had changed since “Instant Karma.” “Warner Brothers put a significant budget behind ‘Instant Karma’ at a level we quickly learned, when we started shopping this around, we weren’t going to achieve,” Ms. Yannatta said. Fontana/Universal is distributing “Chimes of Freedom,” but Ms. Yannatta said she realized “we were going to have to do more with less and be creative.”
The artists, producers and engineers donated their work, and Mr. Dylan donated his publishing royalties, enabling an appealing pricing scheme: The four-CD set retails for $24.99, or $19.99 digitally. Starbucks will sell a two-CD version for $14.95. Each song will also be available individually from iTunes and other digital retailers. But a larger question looms: As streaming services, piracy, iTunes and other innovations change the way music is consumed, are benefit albums still effective ways to raise money and awareness?
In 1995 the British charity War Child raised nearly $2 million with its first album, “Help.” Its 2009 benefit, “Heroes,” produced five Top 40 singles in Britain, but raised just over $300,000.
“The big income generator was traditionally getting 15 tracks together on a CD and selling them in multiples of tens of thousands,” said Ben Knowles, War Child’s music and fund-raising director. “That just doesn’t happen anymore. With these multiartist compilations, people go, ‘I’ll have those four tracks.’ You’re making the effort of putting a 15-track compilation together for people buying four tracks. For the resources, time and effort a charity puts into an album like that you’re not getting the return on investment you would’ve eight years ago.”
Mr. Knowles hasn’t forsaken the idea of compilations altogether but plans to focus any future benefits more tightly, so consumers might invest in the whole package rather than only a few songs.
This approach is the norm for the Red Hot Foundation, which has put together 20 albums, most geared to fans of specific genres, to benefit AIDS-related charities. Its first, in 1990, “Red, Hot + Blue,” a tribute to Cole Porter, sold more than a million copies. Its 2009 two-CD indie-rock compilation, “Dark Was the Night,” has sold much less but because of lower production and marketing costs still raised more than $1.2 million.
“Rather than trying to reach everyone the way pop music does, we’ve narrowcasted,” said John Carlin, Red Hot’s founder. “ ‘Dark Was the Night’ did well because it was an indie compilation you could market in the blogosphere without much record company support or marketing dollars.”
“Chimes of Freedom” runs counter to this narrowcasting idea, but that was the point. “We wanted diverse people,” said Mr. Ayeroff, a music industry veteran and former co-chairman of Virgin Records America. “The record is designed to be an iTunes box set. If you love all 76 songs, great. But if you only love 20, it’s still a deal. If some kid only wants Kesha, Miley Cyrus and Darren Criss, they pay $1.29 for each track.” While such cherry picking could cut into album sales, Mr. Ayeroff said most of those customers would otherwise have ignored the compilation altogether.
Selling single tracks is probably of limited value though. Someone who buys Maroon 5’s version of “I Shall Be Released” from iTunes won’t get liner notes or any real information on Amnesty, and Amnesty won’t capture any data on that consumer. Erin Potts, executive director for Air Traffic Control, a nonprofit organization that consults on music-related philanthropy and activism, maintains that benefit albums can still work but only as part of larger fund-raising or communications plans.
“Benefit albums on their own are blunt objects,” she wrote in an e-mail. “It’s important to make them sharper by creating an engagement strategy around them.” This could include “direct-to-fan marketing tools” that offer “special-edition packages for fans willing to spend more money, especially for a good cause” and a chance to collect consumers’ e-mail addresses and other information.
Music for Relief, a nonprofit formed by the band Linkin Park, did something like that when it started Download to Donate after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. One donation provided access to an expanding playlist of songs by various artists.
“Our concept was to make living, breathing albums that could change over time,” said Mike Shinoda, the group’s vocalist. “We added tracks over the course of months. If you’d made a donation, once in a while you’d get an e-mail. You’d click on the link, and there could be 5 to 25 new songs. We felt that could keep people’s focus on not only the album but the cause.”
Three Download to Donate compilations have raised more than $400,000, one-tenth of what Amnesty collected for “Instant Karma.” Expectations are more modest for “Chimes of Freedom”: “Somewhere between ‘Instant Karma’ and zero, closer to the middle, would be awesome,” Ms. Yannatta said. But the natural constituency for a collection of Dylan covers skews toward older fans still in the habit of buying albums, which should help. But Ken Kragen, executive producer on “We Are the World” and now a consultant for nonprofits, argues this has a downside.
“Every charity is looking to bring young enthusiasts into the fold,” he said. “This probably isn’t the project that does this for Amnesty. They’ve got a phenomenal lineup but an old-fashioned approach. With social media now you need to tap into the ways young people listen to, buy and share music and videos in some way that’s relevant and becomes viral.”
Amnesty isn’t ignoring this new paradigm. On Dec. 10 it streamed the entire album on its Facebook page for anyone who clicked to “Like” the page. The 24-hour initiative resulted in a 15 percent increase in the page’s “Likes.” The tracks will also be available on the subscription service Spotify, and Amnesty is posting 15 behind-the-scenes videos to YouTube. Many of the 76 tracks were also already available on YouTube through unofficial sources three weeks before the album’s release. How all this will affect sales remains to be seen, but it suggests the future of benefit albums mirrors that of all albums: adapt or die.
“These need to become multimedia projects,” said Mr. Carlin of Red Hot. He suggested “Chimes of Freedom” should have been offered as a phone app with “all the music, behind-the-scenes videos, information about Amnesty and updates about political issues.”
He added: “That would’ve been an exciting way to turn that unbelievable talent wrangling into an event that fit the contemporary world.”
Danny Goldberg, a longtime political activist and former record company executive who now runs an artist management company (two of his clients, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, appear on “Chimes of Freedom”), sees the project succeeding but cautions against others following Amnesty’s example.
“People should recognize that 9 out of 10 of these things don’t make any money,” he said. “Concerts are a much more reliable source of money because that business is healthier.”
Ms. Yannatta is hopeful that “Chimes of Freedom” will generate a sustainable interest in Amnesty’s work. The goal, she said, is unlike that of a benefit concert responding to immediate, finite crises like in New Orleans or Haiti.
“One of the challenges with the cause is that the journey of human rights is the journey of humanity,” she said. “That maybe gives the cause more of a marathoner’s legs than a sprinter’s. It doesn’t stop.”
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Track List for Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is as follows:
DISC 1
Johnny Cash Featuring The Avett Brothers One Too Many Mornings
Raphael Saadiq Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Patti Smith Drifter's Escape
Rise Against Ballad of Hollis Brown
Tom Morello The Nightwatchman Blind Willie McTell
Pete Townshend Corrina, Corrina
Bettye LaVette Most of the Time
Charlie Winston This Wheel's On Fire
Diana Krall Simple Twist of Fate
Brett Dennen You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Mariachi El Bronx Love Sick
Ziggy Marley Blowin' in the Wind
The Gaslight Anthem Changing of the Guards
Silversun Pickups Not Dark Yet
My Morning Jacket You're A Big Girl Now
The Airborne Toxic Event Boots of Spanish Leather
Sting Girl from the North Country
Mark Knopfler Restless Farewell
DISC 2
Queens Of The Stone Age Outlaw Blues
Lenny Kravitz Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
Blake Mills Heart Of Mine
Miley Cyrus You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Billy Bragg Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Elvis Costello License to Kill
Angelique Kidjo Lay, Lady, Lay
Natasha Bedingfield Ring Them Bells
Jackson Browne Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Joan Baez Seven Curses (Live)
The Belle Brigade No Time To Think
Sugarland Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
Jack's Mannequin Mr. Tambourine Man
Oren Lavie 4th Time Around
Sussan Deyhim All I Really Want To Do
Adele Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)
DISC 3
K'NAAN With God On Our Side
Ximena Sariñana I Want You
Neil Finn with Pajama Club She Belongs to Me
Bryan Ferry Bob Dylan's Dream
Zee Avi Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Carly Simon Just Like a Woman
Flogging Molly The Times They Are A-Changin'
Fistful Of Mercy Buckets Of Rain
Joe Perry Man Of Peace
Bad Religion It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
My Chemical Romance Desolation Row (Live)
RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren Abandoned Love
Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales New Morning
Cage the Elephant The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Band of Skulls It Ain't Me, Babe
Sinéad O'Connor Property of Jesus
Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project Shelter From The Storm
Ke$ha Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Kronos Quartet Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
DISC 4
Maroon 5 I Shall Be Released
Carolina Chocolate Drops Political World
Seal & Jeff Beck Like A Rolling Stone
Taj Mahal Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Dierks Bentley Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Live)
Mick Hucknall One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
Thea Gilmore I'll Remember You
State Radio John Brown
Dave Matthews Band All Along the Watchtower (Live)
Michael Franti Subterranean Homesick Blues
We Are Augustines Mama, You Been On My Mind
Lucinda Williams Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Kris Kristofferson Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Eric Burdon Gotta Serve Somebody
Evan Rachel Wood I'd Have You Anytime
Marianne Faithfull Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)
Pete Seeger Forever Young
Bob Dylan Chimes Of Freedom
ON DIGITAL VERSION ONLY
Outernational When The Ship Comes In
Silverstein Song To Woody
Daniel Bedingfield Man In The Long Black Coat
January 13, 2012
Also a-Changin’: Saving World With Songs
By DAVID PEISNER
It was never supposed to be this big.
When Amnesty International enlisted Jeff Ayeroff and Julie Yannatta to oversee a benefit album celebrating the organization’s 50th anniversary this year, the plan was for something on the scale of its 2007 benefit album, “Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.” “Instant Karma,” which Mr. Ayeroff and Ms. Yannatta also produced, is a two-CD, 23-song collection of artists like U2, Green Day and R.E.M. performing John Lennon’s songs. It raised more than $4 million. So how did the organization’s latest project, “Chimes of Freedom” — which features Bob Dylan songs played by a genre-busting, cross-generational cast — become a sprawling 4-CD, 73-track (76 online) behemoth?
“This was like a rent party,” Ms. Yannatta said of making “Chimes of Freedom,” which is be released on Jan. 24. “We said: ‘Like other nonprofits in this economy Amnesty needs money. Would you help?’ Just about everyone said yes. You send out invitations, and when everybody shows up — and people start calling, saying, ‘We’d like to do a track too’ — it grows.”
Even a partial list of contributors is jaw dropping: Sting, Adele, My Morning Jacket, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Cage the Elephant, Kesha, Miley Cyrus. All the songs but one are previously unreleased, and some of the most interesting tracks — Silversun Pickups’ spacey, hopeful “Not Dark Yet,” an electro-pop-tinged “I Want You” by the Mexican singer-songwriter Ximena Sariñana — display the kind of creative reinvention a project like this can inspire. But the expansive lineup created a challenge.
“It’s hard to get people to buy one CD these days, let alone four,” Ms. Yannatta said.
Amnesty deserves some credit for cementing the bond between popular music and social activism. It staged variety shows in the late 1970s and early ’80s called the Secret Policeman’s Balls, which Bono and Bob Geldof have cited as fundamental in awakening their social consciences. After the star-studded Ethiopian famine relief benefits, Band Aid, Live Aid and We Are the World, in the mid-’80s, Amnesty began tours in 1986 and 1988, featuring U2, Bruce Springsteen and others, which helped bring its cause into the pop-culture mainstream.
By the 1990s it seemed there was no issue that couldn’t be addressed by gathering sympathetic artists for an album or concert. But as music sales have fallen nearly 50 percent in the last decade, and the industry works feverishly to develop new revenue sources, it’s not clear that charities have kept their fingers on the pulse of the music business.
“A lot of people say, ‘I want to do a benefit record for our school’ or something,” said Michael Franti, who covers “Subterranean Homesick Blues” on “Chimes of Freedom.” “I always say: ‘Do you understand the economics of selling CDs in our current climate?’ ”
As Ms. Yannatta and Mr. Ayeroff looked for a record label to release “Chimes of Freedom,” they discovered how much the market had changed since “Instant Karma.” “Warner Brothers put a significant budget behind ‘Instant Karma’ at a level we quickly learned, when we started shopping this around, we weren’t going to achieve,” Ms. Yannatta said. Fontana/Universal is distributing “Chimes of Freedom,” but Ms. Yannatta said she realized “we were going to have to do more with less and be creative.”
The artists, producers and engineers donated their work, and Mr. Dylan donated his publishing royalties, enabling an appealing pricing scheme: The four-CD set retails for $24.99, or $19.99 digitally. Starbucks will sell a two-CD version for $14.95. Each song will also be available individually from iTunes and other digital retailers. But a larger question looms: As streaming services, piracy, iTunes and other innovations change the way music is consumed, are benefit albums still effective ways to raise money and awareness?
In 1995 the British charity War Child raised nearly $2 million with its first album, “Help.” Its 2009 benefit, “Heroes,” produced five Top 40 singles in Britain, but raised just over $300,000.
“The big income generator was traditionally getting 15 tracks together on a CD and selling them in multiples of tens of thousands,” said Ben Knowles, War Child’s music and fund-raising director. “That just doesn’t happen anymore. With these multiartist compilations, people go, ‘I’ll have those four tracks.’ You’re making the effort of putting a 15-track compilation together for people buying four tracks. For the resources, time and effort a charity puts into an album like that you’re not getting the return on investment you would’ve eight years ago.”
Mr. Knowles hasn’t forsaken the idea of compilations altogether but plans to focus any future benefits more tightly, so consumers might invest in the whole package rather than only a few songs.
This approach is the norm for the Red Hot Foundation, which has put together 20 albums, most geared to fans of specific genres, to benefit AIDS-related charities. Its first, in 1990, “Red, Hot + Blue,” a tribute to Cole Porter, sold more than a million copies. Its 2009 two-CD indie-rock compilation, “Dark Was the Night,” has sold much less but because of lower production and marketing costs still raised more than $1.2 million.
“Rather than trying to reach everyone the way pop music does, we’ve narrowcasted,” said John Carlin, Red Hot’s founder. “ ‘Dark Was the Night’ did well because it was an indie compilation you could market in the blogosphere without much record company support or marketing dollars.”
“Chimes of Freedom” runs counter to this narrowcasting idea, but that was the point. “We wanted diverse people,” said Mr. Ayeroff, a music industry veteran and former co-chairman of Virgin Records America. “The record is designed to be an iTunes box set. If you love all 76 songs, great. But if you only love 20, it’s still a deal. If some kid only wants Kesha, Miley Cyrus and Darren Criss, they pay $1.29 for each track.” While such cherry picking could cut into album sales, Mr. Ayeroff said most of those customers would otherwise have ignored the compilation altogether.
Selling single tracks is probably of limited value though. Someone who buys Maroon 5’s version of “I Shall Be Released” from iTunes won’t get liner notes or any real information on Amnesty, and Amnesty won’t capture any data on that consumer. Erin Potts, executive director for Air Traffic Control, a nonprofit organization that consults on music-related philanthropy and activism, maintains that benefit albums can still work but only as part of larger fund-raising or communications plans.
“Benefit albums on their own are blunt objects,” she wrote in an e-mail. “It’s important to make them sharper by creating an engagement strategy around them.” This could include “direct-to-fan marketing tools” that offer “special-edition packages for fans willing to spend more money, especially for a good cause” and a chance to collect consumers’ e-mail addresses and other information.
Music for Relief, a nonprofit formed by the band Linkin Park, did something like that when it started Download to Donate after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. One donation provided access to an expanding playlist of songs by various artists.
“Our concept was to make living, breathing albums that could change over time,” said Mike Shinoda, the group’s vocalist. “We added tracks over the course of months. If you’d made a donation, once in a while you’d get an e-mail. You’d click on the link, and there could be 5 to 25 new songs. We felt that could keep people’s focus on not only the album but the cause.”
Three Download to Donate compilations have raised more than $400,000, one-tenth of what Amnesty collected for “Instant Karma.” Expectations are more modest for “Chimes of Freedom”: “Somewhere between ‘Instant Karma’ and zero, closer to the middle, would be awesome,” Ms. Yannatta said. But the natural constituency for a collection of Dylan covers skews toward older fans still in the habit of buying albums, which should help. But Ken Kragen, executive producer on “We Are the World” and now a consultant for nonprofits, argues this has a downside.
“Every charity is looking to bring young enthusiasts into the fold,” he said. “This probably isn’t the project that does this for Amnesty. They’ve got a phenomenal lineup but an old-fashioned approach. With social media now you need to tap into the ways young people listen to, buy and share music and videos in some way that’s relevant and becomes viral.”
Amnesty isn’t ignoring this new paradigm. On Dec. 10 it streamed the entire album on its Facebook page for anyone who clicked to “Like” the page. The 24-hour initiative resulted in a 15 percent increase in the page’s “Likes.” The tracks will also be available on the subscription service Spotify, and Amnesty is posting 15 behind-the-scenes videos to YouTube. Many of the 76 tracks were also already available on YouTube through unofficial sources three weeks before the album’s release. How all this will affect sales remains to be seen, but it suggests the future of benefit albums mirrors that of all albums: adapt or die.
“These need to become multimedia projects,” said Mr. Carlin of Red Hot. He suggested “Chimes of Freedom” should have been offered as a phone app with “all the music, behind-the-scenes videos, information about Amnesty and updates about political issues.”
He added: “That would’ve been an exciting way to turn that unbelievable talent wrangling into an event that fit the contemporary world.”
Danny Goldberg, a longtime political activist and former record company executive who now runs an artist management company (two of his clients, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, appear on “Chimes of Freedom”), sees the project succeeding but cautions against others following Amnesty’s example.
“People should recognize that 9 out of 10 of these things don’t make any money,” he said. “Concerts are a much more reliable source of money because that business is healthier.”
Ms. Yannatta is hopeful that “Chimes of Freedom” will generate a sustainable interest in Amnesty’s work. The goal, she said, is unlike that of a benefit concert responding to immediate, finite crises like in New Orleans or Haiti.
“One of the challenges with the cause is that the journey of human rights is the journey of humanity,” she said. “That maybe gives the cause more of a marathoner’s legs than a sprinter’s. It doesn’t stop.”
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Track List for Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is as follows:
DISC 1
Johnny Cash Featuring The Avett Brothers One Too Many Mornings
Raphael Saadiq Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Patti Smith Drifter's Escape
Rise Against Ballad of Hollis Brown
Tom Morello The Nightwatchman Blind Willie McTell
Pete Townshend Corrina, Corrina
Bettye LaVette Most of the Time
Charlie Winston This Wheel's On Fire
Diana Krall Simple Twist of Fate
Brett Dennen You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Mariachi El Bronx Love Sick
Ziggy Marley Blowin' in the Wind
The Gaslight Anthem Changing of the Guards
Silversun Pickups Not Dark Yet
My Morning Jacket You're A Big Girl Now
The Airborne Toxic Event Boots of Spanish Leather
Sting Girl from the North Country
Mark Knopfler Restless Farewell
DISC 2
Queens Of The Stone Age Outlaw Blues
Lenny Kravitz Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
Blake Mills Heart Of Mine
Miley Cyrus You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Billy Bragg Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Elvis Costello License to Kill
Angelique Kidjo Lay, Lady, Lay
Natasha Bedingfield Ring Them Bells
Jackson Browne Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Joan Baez Seven Curses (Live)
The Belle Brigade No Time To Think
Sugarland Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
Jack's Mannequin Mr. Tambourine Man
Oren Lavie 4th Time Around
Sussan Deyhim All I Really Want To Do
Adele Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)
DISC 3
K'NAAN With God On Our Side
Ximena Sariñana I Want You
Neil Finn with Pajama Club She Belongs to Me
Bryan Ferry Bob Dylan's Dream
Zee Avi Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Carly Simon Just Like a Woman
Flogging Molly The Times They Are A-Changin'
Fistful Of Mercy Buckets Of Rain
Joe Perry Man Of Peace
Bad Religion It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
My Chemical Romance Desolation Row (Live)
RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren Abandoned Love
Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales New Morning
Cage the Elephant The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Band of Skulls It Ain't Me, Babe
Sinéad O'Connor Property of Jesus
Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project Shelter From The Storm
Ke$ha Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Kronos Quartet Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
DISC 4
Maroon 5 I Shall Be Released
Carolina Chocolate Drops Political World
Seal & Jeff Beck Like A Rolling Stone
Taj Mahal Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Dierks Bentley Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Live)
Mick Hucknall One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
Thea Gilmore I'll Remember You
State Radio John Brown
Dave Matthews Band All Along the Watchtower (Live)
Michael Franti Subterranean Homesick Blues
We Are Augustines Mama, You Been On My Mind
Lucinda Williams Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Kris Kristofferson Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Eric Burdon Gotta Serve Somebody
Evan Rachel Wood I'd Have You Anytime
Marianne Faithfull Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)
Pete Seeger Forever Young
Bob Dylan Chimes Of Freedom
ON DIGITAL VERSION ONLY
Outernational When The Ship Comes In
Silverstein Song To Woody
Daniel Bedingfield Man In The Long Black Coat
