CDS benefit ICADP

Bloodshot Records has announced the release of the Executioner's Last Songs, Vols. 2 & 3, which will benefit the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.  Here's what Bloodshot has to say about it.

Dear Friends,

In these times it seems that music and politics make strange bedfellows. Becoming too political can hurt the bottom line. Luckily, as a small label we can remain above (or below) the fray. You won’t see our artists talking to ABC News about how they shouldn’t have said that thing about the president. No, over here at rancho de bloodshot, we prefer our grassroots, “put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is” approach. That’s why hot on the heels of last year's rousing success, the Pine Valley Cosmonauts are back to raise more hell and more cash to help wean America off its life threatening death penalty dependency.

Since the completion of Volume One, we invited more of our favorite singers and songwriters to contribute their voices and reputations to a second effort. We were pleasantly trampled by herds of willing collaborators (hence the double disc). They suggested deathly ditties unknown to us, wrote site-specific new ones or quietly bent our cruel and unusual will.

If irony is your thing you’ll love that just like last time, all the songs are about death and dying, killing and being killed. However, if irony is not your thing you can no doubt enjoy 27 songs about death and dying, killing and being killed. Either way we will take your money and donate it to groups opposed to the death penalty, but should you really let that get in the way of enjoying the great music. Not when you check out many of the artists who contributed their voluminous talents to the effort.

Contributing artists include: Tim Rutili (Califone), Dave Alvin (Blasters, Knitters), Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), Otis Clay (smoooth soul singin' legend), Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, English folk heroine Charlotte Greig, Alejandro Escovedo, Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), Rhett Miller (Old 97's), Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), English folk-rock weirdo genius Kevin Coyne, Jon Rauhouse, a classic track from The Sundowners, and more. WOW!!!

These two CDs are just 15 bucks. A crazy low price for lo, these crazy times.

Buy it here today!

Click here for a Washington Post article about the first CD

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