The Panic Is On: Songs from the Great Depression

Deborah Holland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 5, 1997)
• Original Release Date: August 5, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gadfly Records
• ASIN: B00000201A
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,868 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We Sure Got Hard Times Now

2. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

3. I Am a Union Woman (Join the Cio)

4. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

5. The Panic Is On

6. Ten Cents a Dance

7. Do-Re-Mi

8. Worried Man Blues

9. Detroit Moan

10. Remember My Forgotten Man

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting departure from Deborah's previous recordings, October 19, 1998

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This review is from: The Panic Is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Audio CD)

This album is quite an interesting departure from Deborah Holland's work with "Animal Logic" (with Stewart Copeland and Stanley Clarke), not to mention her obscure solo album "Freudian Slip" (which bore a strong resemblance to the Animal Logic releases). This album is more of a musical study of the post-Depression era. Ms Holland's voice carries through the deliberately bleak material and provides some unusual interpretations. Back in the sixties, the top edge of the album would have been imprinted: "File under Folk".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for everybody, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Panic Is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Audio CD)

Deborah Holland has a great set of pipes, no doubt about it. She also was 1/3 of the late "Animal Logic" (where Stewart Copeland, ex of The Police, and Stanley Clarke made up the other 2/3's). This album is not a pop or rock undertaking however, but is more of an intellectual journey through the music of the Great Depression. Deborah notes, rather frightenly, that much of what was written then could be applied now. For those who enjoy this type of musical study, Deborah's interpretations and sweet voice do succeed in bringing at least some of this rather melancholy material alive.

5.0 out of 5 stars The pleasure is now and timeless, October 13, 2011

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This review is from: The Panic Is On: Songs from the Great Depression (Audio CD)

The idiosyncratic voicing and instrumentation are fascinating: new angles and meanings startle. I heard two cuts from the cd by chance on a locally-produced public radio station program (let THAT be a lesson to you)and ordered it on faith. Great meshing of social history and politics AND good musicianship. In these times it should be heard ---how ironic. The panic returns; and the music forever.