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Track Listing
1. Eternity - Lionel Richie
2. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder
3. Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer
4. American Prayer - Dave Stewart
5. Battle Cry - Shontelle
6. Make It Better - Los Lonely Boys
7. Pride, In The Name Of Love - John Legend
8. I Have A Dream - Bebe Williams
9. Am I All Alone? - Suai
10. One Is The Magic # - Jill Scott
11. Love And Hope - Ozomatli
12. Lookng East - Jackson Browne
13. Out Of Our Heads - Sheryl Crow
14. Promised Land - Malik Yusef - (featuring Adam Levine/Kanye West)
15. Hold On - Yolanda Adams
16. America the Beautiful - Keb' Mo'
17. America - Ken Stacey
18. Wide River To Cross - Buddy Miller
Album Notes
Audio Remasterers: Thierry Migeotte; Jerrold Thompson.
Hidden Beach Recordings is the first label--independent or otherwise--to commemorate the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States with YES WE CAN: VOICES OF A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT. The album was produced by Steve McKeever of Hidden Beach, and in his liner notes, McKeever documents the birth of the project, but that hardly matters in a sense, because the music is what does. Assembled here are 18 cuts, some of them presented in their original form, some with bits from the speeches of Obama and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Those using Obama speech audio include: John Legend ("Pride, In the Name of Love"), Lionel Richie ("Eternity"), and artists as diverse as Ozomatli, Jill Scott, Dave Stewart, Shontelle, Los Lonely Boys, Suai, Keb' Mo', and Buddy Miller (whose closing number "Wide River to Cross" is among the real highlights). While it's far more memorable as a piece of memorabilia or nostalgia than as a musical artifact, it's quite a handsome package, with photographs of everything from the Democratic National Convention to the New Hampshire Primary, and the many snippets from Obama speeches on the campaign trail included.
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