Andrew Jackson- The Atrocious Saint

Christopher Hedge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: That s That Productions
• ASIN: B001D4CUQ4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Midwest Record, CD Review

This is certainly one of the deeper soundtracks are going to come across for a while. They just scored a cleffer about President Jackson, a man of the dichotomies that normally aren t taught in history books. Keeping with the spirit of the times, Hedge is helped out by David Grisman, Carlos Nakai and others that normally probably wouldn t be in the same studio at the same time. Focusing on the spirit of the times, Hedge wants you to hear things in the music that you probably didn t hear when you were first exposed to stuff like this in grade school. Since this is an interesting time of change for America, this is an interesting time to look back at change that was always there beneath the surface. Because this was intended as the score for a PBS documentary, we can certainly get away with saying this is certainly one for PBS ears. -by Chris Spector 07/18/08 --Midwest Record Review

Product Description

From the Trail of Tears to the Washington Elite, From the Plantation to an Atrocious Saint: Re-creating the Underexplored Musical Dialogue of Africans, Frontiersmen, Irish & Native Americans in Early America

Exploring history through its music uncovers stories left out in high school textbooks. This period was arguably the most defining era in American history: one that saw the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Westward expansion, the rise of slavery, and the removal of Native Americans from their homelands to make way for the burgeoning American commercial-agricultural machine. It also shaped the first man of humble origins to become President of the new nation and founder the Democratic Party.

In an election year in which the issues of race, immigration, class, gender, and regionalism are on every citizen s lips, many Americans may be asking themselves, how did we get here? Real history is in the spaces between things; it is in the dynamics, the electricity, the relationships between the moments, and people in history that really tell the story. It is visceral, multi-vocal, conversational; but rarely do we come face-to-face with history. Music reaches into the emotion of times past. The Atrocious Saint puts you right there, weaving together the voices and experiences of slaves and Indians, frontiersmen, and the Washington elite though enlisting their relics and descendants.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Previewed recording and artist originally on NPR..., September 25, 2008

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BeatNic (Akron, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andrew Jackson - The Atrocious Saint (MP3 Download)

I was listening to NPR when I first heard cuts from "Andrew Jackson: The Atrocious Saint." I was fascinated by the textures and flavors Christopher Hedge was able to create in the little "snip-its" NPR previewed. The full tracks do not disappoint, and I anxiously await the PBS documentary based on the music alone!

5.0 out of 5 stars review of Atrocious Saint on PBS, August 7, 2011

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Gayle Dee "gadee" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Andrew Jackson- The Atrocious Saint (Audio CD)

I would like to give a thunderous applause for this work by Chris Hedge and his cohorts in this wonderful example and interoperation of this early American music.
Not only superb musicianship but recording quality is without parr. I was turned on to this project by my son Jake who is a friend of Chris's son Nick. I am so glad he did.
This is easily one of my top 20 CD's spanning all kinds of music. Thanks you Christopher and friends. Edward Dee