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Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement (Barack Obama)
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About Yes We Can: Voices Of A Grassroots Movement
Product Description YES WE CAN: Voices of a Grassroots Movement featured exclusively on www.BarackObama.com with millions of hits per day. This first of its kind album inspired by a presidential campaign and its supporters' quest for a 'more perfect union' contains performances by some of the most talented recording artists alive today expressing themselves through instruments and voice. This special collector's edition features Deluxe Packaging with a 52 page book with exclusive photos documenting this historic movement. 2008. Featuring Lionel Richie , Stevie Wonder , John Mayer , Dave Stewart , Shontelle, Los Lonely Boys, John Legend and more. Review Whether you choose to hear it as a victory-lap soundtrack or simply a chorus inviting all Americans to embrace "the audacity of hope," this compilation works--if not always, then often enough, as a compelling, occasionally very moving listen. Twenty artists contribute 18 tracks, inspired by Barack Obama's campaign (snippets of recent Big `O' speeches are woven into various tracks). Admittedly, the charity/progressive-agenda/fundraiser album, always well intentioned and too frequently featuring the conspicuous keening of Bono (he's absent here), has lost much luster. Too many such "event" projects, all worthy, may have created a kind of listener fatigue among music fans, who've tended to cold-shoulder them in recent years. Yes We Can may escape that fate. Its timing alone, coming at the close of a contentious campaign season, is perfect: after all that noise, a musical restorative should allow us to catch our breath before getting up and moving on. Besides, who can argue with an album whose title shouts out to both Sammy Davis' autobiography and the Pointer Sisters' first, Allen Toussaint-scribed hit? Just over half its tracks were recorded exclusively for Yes We Can and they generally comprise the album's best moments. One near-holy ghost hovers over both Lionel Richie's set-opening "Eternity" and John Mayer's "Waiting on the World to Change." The ghost is Curtis Mayfield, whose knack for infectious, slo-burn melody and lyric sharpness--filtered through early Van Morrison on the Mayer cut--guides two buoyant performances that just "feel so right." Inspirational verse from the latter song: "If we had the power to bring our neighbors home from war/ they would never have missed Christmas, no more ribbons on their door." The same attitude animates Shontelle's "Battle Cry," which puts slightly more contemporary moves on similar source material. Los Lonely Boys pair their characteristic blues-rock with a Beatley melodic vibe (both Harrison- and McCartneyesque) on "Make It Better," and Keb' Mo' reprises "America the Beautiful" from his 2001 kids-music set Big Wide Grin. Here too, the familiar gets a facelift. "America the Beautiful" has been subjected to inordinate amounts of elder song abuse over the years, and Keb' Mo's restrained vocal is a welcome change, coloring the tune blue and restoring at least some of its dignity. Less impressive is singer-songwriter Ken Stacey's "America," a tinkling-piano ballad that might play well in cabaret but registers as outsized and overly sentimental here. Yes We Can's star-power cut is "Promised Land," a curious club sandwich assembled by Kanye West, Malik and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine that asks us to reconcile a generous ecumenical spirit with requisite rap braggadocio. There's something a little disconcerting about Malik rapping that "This is not brown, red or yellow, not a white or black poem" just after letting on that "Time flies in the Lear and you wonder where the day went." We can all relate. The set's real highlight is also its most adventurous cut, Jill Scott's remake of her "One Is the Magic #." Set to a seductive, head-nodding beat (a wonderfully crunchy rhythm track; it sounds like Ewell Gibbons tramping through a Fall forest), outfitted with Spanish trumpet flourishes, the tune's acutely on-target both musically and messa
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