To All We Stretch the Open Arm
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"To All We Stretch the Open Arm" is a collection of political songs by a variety of songwriters, performed by Mirah
and the Black Cat Orchestra.
Mirah
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn , is an American musician based in San Francisco California. She has released five albums under the K Records label.- Background :...
and the Black Cat Orchestra.
Track listing
- "Per I Morti Reggio Emilia" (Fausto AmodeiFausto AmodeiFausto Amodei is an Italian folk singer-songwriter and musicologist. He was born in 1935 in Turin.-Biography:Amodei started his musical career founding, in 1958, the music band of Cantacronache. In his songs he uses irony and satire, a style inspired by the French singer Georges Brassens...
) – 2:30 (Instrumental) - "Monument" (MirahMirahMirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn , is an American musician based in San Francisco California. She has released five albums under the K Records label.- Background :...
) – 3:40 - "Dear Landlord" (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 3:25 - "Story of Isaac" (Leonard CohenLeonard CohenLeonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
) – 4:09 - "The Light"(MirahMirahMirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn , is an American musician based in San Francisco California. She has released five albums under the K Records label.- Background :...
) – 4:10 - "What Keeps Mankind Alive?What Keeps Mankind Alive?"What Keeps Mankind Alive?" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama The Threepenny Opera which premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. The song has been covered by Tom Waits , the Pet Shop Boys, William S...
"(Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
/Bertholt Brecht) – 3:15 - "How Sweetly Friendship Binds" (Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
/Paul GreenPaul GreenPaul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century...
) – 1:47 - "Si Me Quieres Escribir" (Anonymous)– 2:48
- "Si Se Calla el Cantor" (Horacio Guarany) – 3:16
- "Hard Times (Come Again No More)" (Stephen FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
) – 4:02 - "El Cant Dels Ocells" (Anonymous) – 2:58
- "Bella Ciao" (Anonymous) – 2:01