Audio CD review:
Bruce Springsteen, Madeleine Peyroux, Pete Seeger, Dan Zanes, Jon Bon Jovi, Buffalo Tom, Mario Frangoulis, Danny Glover, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell - Give US Your Poor

Bruce Springsteen, Madeleine Peyroux, Pete Seeger, Dan Zanes, Jon Bon Jovi, Buffalo Tom, Mario Frangoulis, Danny Glover, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell - Give US Your Poor

Band: Bruce Springsteen, Madeleine Peyroux, Pete Seeger, Dan Zanes, Jon Bon Jovi, Buffalo Tom, Mario Frangoulis, Danny Glover, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell Title: Give US Your Poor Rating: Release Date: 25 September, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Land of 10,000 Homeless - Minnesota - audio documentary set to music 2: Show Me the Way - Jon Bon Jovi & Mighty Sam McClain 3: Baby Don't Let Me Go Homeless - Keb' Mo' & Eagle Park Slim 4: There Is No Good Reason - Natalie Merchant & Friends 5: Hobo's Lullaby - Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger 6: So Lonely - Sonya Kitchell 7: Becky's Tune - Michelle Shocked and Michael Sullivan 8: Walking the Dog - Bonnie Raitt & Weepin' Willie Robinson 9: My Name Is Not `Those People'" (spoken, with music) - Danny Glover 10: I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Madeleine Peyroux 11: Portable Man - Del Goldfarb & John Sebastian 12: Boll Weevil - Dan Zanes & Kyla Middleton 13: Ink Falling (Father Outside)- Buffalo Tom 14: Stranger Blues - Sweet Honey in the Rock 15: 1,000 Miles Away - Jewel 16: Impossible Boulevard (spoken excerpt, with music) - Tim Robbins 17: Feels Like Home - Mario Frangoulis 18: When We Left Minneapolis" (spoken, with music) - Danny Glover 19: "Here and Now" - Mark Erelli

Editoral Review In collaboration with the Give Us Your Poor organization at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Appleseed folk label has paired artists like Jon Bon Jovi with the down-home soul of Mighty Sam McClain, Bruce Springsteen with Pete Seeger (the seminal influence on Springsteen's recent Seeger Sessions) and Michelle Shocked with Michael Sullivan, her longtime friend and a formerly homeless Vietnam vet. This compilation that spans genres and generations shines its spotlight on homelessness, showing that the problem remains as pervasive as ever, though it has been supplanted by other crises as the issue du jour. Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, and Dan Zanes are among the other artists who team with singers who are or have been homeless, while actors Danny Glover and Tim Robbins provide spoken-word testimony. The songs of Randy Newman inspire very different treatments, with Madeleine Peyroux investing "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" with a piano-ballad intimacy, and Mario Frangoulis giving "Feels Like Home" an operatic grandeur. With the essays and extensive annotation accompanying these recordings, almost all of them previously unreleased, no one who encounters this package is likely to remain unmoved. --Don McLeese .. You can see a complete list of all Bruce Springsteen, Madeleine Peyroux, Pete Seeger, Dan Zanes, Jon Bon Jovi, Buffalo Tom, Mario Frangoulis, Danny Glover, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell discography, or go back to the Bruce Springsteen, Madeleine Peyroux, Pete Seeger, Dan Zanes, Jon Bon Jovi, Buffalo Tom, Mario Frangoulis, Danny Glover, Jewel, Sonya Kitchell tabs