Songs for Mahmud

1. Miami (3:00)

2. Operation Iraqi Liberation (2:44)

3. Face of Victory (3:37)

4. Song the Songbird Sings (3:31)

5. They're Building a Wall (3:21)

6. Who Would Jesus Bomb? (3:46)

7. Evening News (2:11)

8. Here at the End of the World (3:04)

9. Used To Be a City (3:01)

10. More Gardens Song (3:01)

11. Butcher for Hire (2:59)

12. Trafalgar Square (2:25)

13. Song for the SOA #2 (2:37)

14. All the Ghosts that Walk This Earth (4:05)

15. Korea (3:08)

16. I Wanna Go Home (2:47)

17. Moron (2:11)

18. War Is Over (3:08)

19. Battle of Blair Mountain (4:11)

20. Oppositional Defiant Disorder (2:17)

21. What If You Knew (2:27)

Original Liner Notes

Dear listener,



For a variety of reasons much too dull and vague to bother explaining here, I figured I'd self-release my next CD, and I figured I'd do a solo acoustic thing. I had a few days off in early March, 2004, went into Sugar Hill Studios in Houston, Texas, spent a few hours there one evening and recorded these songs. Three of them appeared as "previously unreleased tracks" on the AK Press/Daemon Records release, Behind the Barricades: the Best of David Rovics. Otherwise none of these songs have previously been released on CD. Most were written since my 2003 release, Return (on Ever Reviled Records), was recorded.



In the listing of songs coming right up I've sought to make the song descriptions succinct and radio-friendly (as with the songs themselves). If you've got a radio show or any other such thing like that or you know somebody who does who should have this CD, please feel free to contact me and I'll happily send out as many as might be used for such purposes. If you go to my website, www.davidrovics.com, you'll find my contact information by clicking where it says "contact me." If you click on "radio" you'll find the emails for the labels that released my previous two CD's -- they're also happy to send copies to interested radio people and other folks like that.



Whether this CD gets "out there" depends pretty much entirely on the efforts of the grassroots, the listeners, the activists and other folks who think this music has value. In order to facilitate this process, I have audio files of all of the songs from all of my recordings available for free download on my website. I also encourage the copying of this or any of my other recordings. (Of course, you can also buy them on my website, retail or wholesale.) There you'll also find lyrics to everything, sheet music to most, and lots of other stuff. I encourage you to go to my website and send me an email. If you want to get on my email list, then you'll hear about my upcoming performances in your area and can tell your friends about the next show...



The CD was mastered in Houston at Essential Sound. The graphics were done by Michael Rutzou. I wrote and played all the songs. As for the politics, I'll just let the songs do that and sign off here. I hope to see you on the road and in the streets!



Love and solidarity,

David



P.S.: As it turns out, Ever Reviled Records is also playing a role in this release, so it's kind of a self/ERR release, or something like that...