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Honor: Benefit for the Honor Earth Campaign

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The fact that the album was put together to gather voices against the plight of Navite Americans, is only half the reason to buy this superb collection. The other reason is the excellent selection of original songs and performances that are delivered here. A real treasure is the Jim Boyd/Sherman Alexie, "Small World", a haunting theme of reservation life set against a stark American desert landscape. Other stand outs are Soul Asylum's "Motel Notell", an all out rocker about the commericalization of the Native American culture and the weepingly beautiful "My Mother Is Not The White Dove" by Jane Siberry. Also note worthy are the Indigio Girls, "Blood Quantum", "Scattered" by Rusted Root and "One Knee Gospel" by Frank Hyde/Mike Jones. If you are interested in this genre of music, you will be very impressed by the quality that is here. "Things We Do" from Indigenous and "Wake Up Delores" from Los Lobos(Latin Playboys) are remakes and the original tracks from their respective albums are much better than they are presented here. The only tosser is the horrid Matthew Sweet cover of "A Day In The Life Of A Tree". Please buy this album, you'll be very satisfied and have lots of new music to research.

... Every single song on this CD is excellent. It was for a benefit for the Honor the Earth Foundation to raise awareness about the Native American plight. The result is somewhat difficult to explain. Its not traditional Native American music, nor is it some New Agey pop music. Instead, its a hauntingly beautiful, ephemeral look at Native American culture through music. Any attempts to force it into a specific genere will fail automatically.
Theres two excellent numbers by Ulali, complete with a really cool sounding drum. "Wise Users", "The Things We Do" and "Crazy Life" are all excellent and stick in your head after hearing them, while the lyrics to "The Future is a War", "Wounded Knee" and "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" really dig down deep. John Trundell's "Out of the Blue" and the "One Knee Gospel" are both hauntingly beautiful and "Creation Story" just sounds great. And then theres the epheemral sound to "4R Ancestors". However, the high point on this collection is Rusted Root's "Scattered". Much better than the version on Cruel Sun.
In the end, I can only say "buy this CD NOW!"

A VERY GOOD COLLECTION OF MIXED NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC WITH OTHERS PITCHING IN FOR THE HONOR THE EARTH CAMPAIGN I PRETTY MUCH GOT IT FOR ULALI-ALL MY RELATION A GREAT SONG.INDIGENOUS-THING WE DO. JIM BOYD-SMALL WORLD. JOY HARJO POETIC JUSTIC-CREATION STORY. AGAIN THE CD IS GREAT AND WORTH THE MONEY,LOVE THE COVER TOO...