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Featuring vocals by jazz great Wanda Houston. "American History" blazes through over 250 years of colonialism, war, slavery, freedom, imperialism, music, industrialization, invention, more wars, hope, setbacks, dreams ... "The greatest show on earth!" Check out the video at Featuring vocals by jazz great Wanda Houston, "American History" blazes through over 250 years in 7 1/2 minutes of hardship, hope, pain, redemption, loss, dreams, and more ... American history: the greatest show on earth! Check out the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-5lpyYxi1A

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American history/Don't tread on me/We the people/To be self-evident?I cannot tell a lie // Way down upon the Swanee River/Follow the drinking gourd/Ain't I a woman?/Of the people, for the people // Time is money/Go West, young man/The only good Indian/Bury my heart // The greatest show on earth/Manifest destiny/Carry a big stick/American first // I cannot tell a lie // Hold that tiger/Sometimes I feel like a motherless child/God bless the child/I got the St. Louis blues/It don't mean a thing // Workers of the world/Which side are you on?/Fear itself/Loose lips sink ships // Military-industrial complex/Mutual assured destruction/Law and order/Four on the floor // Commie pinko pointy-headed intellectual/Deviant, delinquent/Welfare queen, illegal alien/Terrorist // Four on the floor // I have a dream/Make love, not war/Power to the people/For the people, by the people // I am not a crook/I didn't inhale/I'm the decider/I cannot tell a lie // War to end all wars/Winning hearts and minds/Collateral damage/Blood for oil // Axis of evil/Build that wall/Tear down that wall/Build that wall/Lock her up/Me too // Hands up, don't shoot/Audacity, hope/Audacity, hope/Why can't we all get along? // America first // Lonesome valley/Big woods/Ghost town/Ghost dance // I cannot tell a lie/The greatest show on earth/American history/American herstory/I had a dream/I have a dream/Had a dream/Have a dream/Had, have, had, have ...

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from Music for the Exploration of Elusive Phenomena, released June 18, 2021
Julian Gerstin: music, lyrics, percussion
Wanda Houston: vocals
Don Anderson: trumpet
Jon Weeks: alto & tenor saxophones
Jim Heffron: baritone saxophone
Jason Ennis: rhythm guitar
Bob Everingham: tenor guitar
Eugene Uman: piano, co-arranger
Jay Cook: bass
Josh Francis: drum set

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Julian Gerstin Brattleboro, Vermont

Julian is a percussionist and composer whose music reflects his experience with musicians in and from Cuba, Martinique, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Bulgaria, and Egypt as well as jazz from trad New Orleans to experimental.

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