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Yes We Can! | 
 enlarge | Artist: Maria Muldaur
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 9657
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 83672
UPC: 089408367229
EAN: 0089408367229
ASIN: B001ANE3CW
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Make a Better World - Maria Muldaur, King, Earl [1] | | • | Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) - Maria Muldaur, Gaye, Marvin | | • | Yes We Can, Can - Maria Muldaur, Toussaint, Allen | | • | John Brown - Maria Muldaur, Dylan, Bob | | • | This Old World - Maria Muldaur, Miller, Buddy | | • | War - Maria Muldaur, Whitfield, Norman | | • | We Shall Be Free - Maria Muldaur, Brooks, Garth | | • | License to Kill - Maria Muldaur, Dylan, Bob | | • | Masters of War - Maria Muldaur, Dylan, Bob | | • | Why Can't We Live Together - Maria Muldaur, Thomas, Timothy E. | | • | Pray for the USA - Maria Muldaur, Terrell, Elbernita | | • | Down by the Riverside - Maria Muldaur, Traditional | | • | Everyone in the World - Maria Muldaur, |
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Album Description
2008 release. Maria Muldaur's roots are in the Folk revival of the early '60s, a time when figures like Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan were making bold statements about the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other burning issues of the day. More than four decades later, in the face of political and social issues in which the stakes are equally high, Muldaur assembles a group of legendary female performers to lend their voices in a critical examination of where we are as a nation and where we're going. The guest list includes Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Phoebe Snow, Odetta and Jane Fonda.
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 Don't Ever Stop Puttin' 'Em Out There Maria! November 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have loved Maria's music for decades, I guess that lets you know how old I am. I have a broad range of favorite artists from Assembly of Dust to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Maria's albums I reach for most of the time. This one did not let me down. When Maria sings the incredible soul touching ballads on this album you can feel it from your heart to your pinky toes! Her voice has been fine tuned with time and experiences and you can hear it in every selection. You want to sway,boogie,shout or cry when listening to this creative venue of perfection. Please, please Maria, don't ever stop.
 Lib Politics Equals A No Sale October 9, 2008
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
Yes We Can. The Marxist Barack Hussein Obama slogan. Yeah, I checked out her web-site and see that she is left-wing politically active. I purchased Waitress At A Donut Shop years ago and still like it. And I was thinking of getting back into her music. But now - no thank you. I do not patronize any artist that will use the money I spend on them for anti-American left-wing socialist causes. Sorry Maria - but your support for the left makes me say no way to you. In conclusion - I am always amazed at the stupidity of artists that go out of their way to piss off 50 percent of their fan base.
Love Everybody August 28, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album invites you to unite and a human race and celebrate all of us. She draws from vast source of great songwriters. Yes even Garth Brooks! I saw her live on tour with Holly Near and others and I think my favorite songs live were John Brown and War. On the album I love We Shall Be Free. The driving guitar sounds like a train on John Brown and War was turned into the mournful warning. But mostly the album is just too much fun. This is because they sound like they are having fun. The sound is raw like it came straight out of Memphis and Stax Records which adds some real authenticity to the soul. Seriously though seeing her live blew my mind because I never realized what a vocal range she had! Holy heavenly god of cow gods!
soulfull Maria August 27, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this new album of Maria short after the release and i must say "it is one of the best"! I have all the albums that Maria recorded. It's a wide range of music. From folk to big band, from blues to jazz. This time i think that it is more soul. Her voice is getting deeper by passing the years and the voice goes so well with the songs on this album. I love it!
Kees de Frel
The Netherlands
Maria Muldaur - Unleashed August 26, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since Maria Muldaur's self-titled debut album first appeared in 1973 she has shown a certain amount of "nerve" in her repertoire selections. On paper many of her album/CD-programmed choices could look like a recipe for disaster. Take for example her excellent 1974 album "Waitress In A Donut Shop" where she wove songs from writers as diverse as Fats Waller, Anna McGarrigle, Allen Toussaint, Lieber & Stoller, Wendy Waldman, and Doc Watson into a cohesive work that flowed from one genre to another without missing beat. That chance-taking trait has followed her throughout her career and each and every time she makes it work and comes out a winner.
Muldaur has musically never been very political - until now. Sure there was some songs here and there where she sang about promoting peace and harmony (Smokey Robinson's "Sweet Harmony") or where she perhaps got a little political (Rev. W.H. Brewster's "As An Eagle Stirreth Her Nest") but she's basically been a singer of love songs (good love and not-so good love.)
With "Yes We Can" we find Muldaur singing upfront and forceful in the area of world affairs, politics and the state of the human race Once again she mixes up the pot with a varied program that looks a bit "iffy" on paper. But by this time we should all know enough to wait and listen to her performance. And surely enough one doesn't have to wait long into the recording to realize that "Yes We Can" is an excellent piece of work.
The musical choices fluctuate between songs that call for peace and understanding and strong anti war/violence songs. On the "up" side is first and foremost the opening track, Earl King's "Make A Better World" which opens with a Stone's like riff and then adds to that a Honky Tonk/New Orleans sound. The chorus of "Everybody let's sing, sing, sing" is addictive enough to get in your head and spin around in there for days! Bonnie Raitt joins Muldaur for a great rendition of Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can" (first made popular by the Pointer Sisters on their debut album in 1973) and together they breath an updated spin of the song, which was resurrected after Hurricane Katrina by Toussaint himself.
Garth Brooks' "We Shall Be Free" is a really good song and makes for a great "make a change" anthem. Joined here by Odetta, Joan Baez and Holly Near, Muldaur and company easily prove why they were dominant voices in the 60's & 70s and why they're still relevant today. When the haunting, yet motherly, voice of Odetta comes in on the second verse one feels as if everything will be and can be all right after all.
But the biggest surprises on the CD are the anti war/violence songs Muldaur chooses - and they're bold choices. Her cover of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)" couldn't be bettered by anyone else, and Shane Theriot adds a great guitar solo to it. Muldaur also remakes the Edwin Starr classic "War" in an unexpected slow rendition that accentuates the song's message in a completely different manner than the original.
However, it's the three Dylan numbers that are the cream of the crop of this recording. Muldaur has already shown her skill at singing Dylan with her CD "Heart of Mine" and here she shows that she's also capable of taking on Dylan's most biting and ironic anti- war/violence songs. "John Brown" is startlingly graphic and actually somewhat uncomfortable to listen to due its subject matter (a maimed soldier returning from war to a shocked and misguided mother.) With a tip of the hat to the Staple Singer's version of this song, Muldaur & Co., tackle it without much musical drama per se, leaving the words to express it's horror. (Dylan never recorded "John Brown" in the studio.)
Then there's Dylan's "License To Kill", which Muldaur sings with her daughter Jenni on harmony, that leaves the listener haunted by the visions of "the woman on my block" who keeps asking "who gave him the license to kill?"
"Masters Of War" is a Dylan work that most would shy away from due to its length and the fact that most singers are probably afraid to even approach it's anger. But as Muldaur has proven throughout her career - she'll take on anything if she wants to. Her performance of "Masters of War" is about as strong as they come.
This CD is not to be missed by Muldaur fans or by those who long for social issue resolutions and the desire for worldwide peace and freedom. For those who believe that these ideals are still as alive and well today in 2008, as they were some forty years ago, step back, listen and learn from the older generation who lived through the turbulent times of the Vietnam War. They still have something to say.
Oh, and by the way, The Free Radicals (David Torkanowksy, Tony Braunagh, Hutch Hutchinson and Shane Theriot) are a tight backup. Jenni Muldaur, Linda Tillerey, Valerie Trout , Jeanie Tracy and others supply background vocals.
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