Album Notes

This is a benefit CD. All net proceeds from the sale of this CD benefit Artists for Literacy - a nonprofit that connects artists and their work to English teachers who are on the front lines of the fight against illiteracy. We are grateful to CD Baby for facilitating these on-line sales.

The Songs Inspired by Literature Project - SIBL - a project of Artists for Literacy - is made up of artists who care about creating a more literate world. Each of the artists on this CD responded to a call for songs inspired by books, plays or poems. We held a contest - 382 songwriters sent in songs from 35 states and 6 countries. We picked the best 10 songs and matched them with commercial cuts written by world class artists: David Bowie, Tom Waits, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle and Vicki Randle.

These songs are the bridge between readers and non-readers. They connect us all to great works of literature and engage our ears so that our eyes may be tempted to drink in some words too. We hope you enjoy Chapter Two. Visit http://www.artistsforliteracy.org.

Track listing/Literary inspiration:

1. Dee Adams - Pennsylvania
Inspired by Orson Scott Card's novel Songmaster

2. Eileen Laverty - Tread Softly
Inspired by W.B. Yeats poem "He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven"

3. David Bowie - 1984
Inspired by George Orwell's classic novel 1984

4. Ira Marlowe - The Wish
Inspired by Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe's play Faust

5. Marta Gomez - Paula Ausente
Inspired by Isabel Allende's memoir Paula

6. Deborah Pardes - Bobo's Country
Inspired by Alexandra Fuller's memoir Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

7. Michelle [Bloom] - Listen, the Silences
Inspired by Thomas Merton's Essays Raids on the Unspeakable

8. Larry Kenneth Potts - The Ballad of Poker Alice
Inspired by Stephen Ambrose's historical novel Nothing Like it in the World

9. Steve Earle - Dixieland
Inspired by Michael Shaara's historical novel The Killer Angels

10. Vicki Randle - Don't Let Me Fall
Inspired by James McBride's memoir The Color of Water

11. Patti Witten - Goin' Back to Moline
Inspired by Robert Clark's novel Mr. White's Confession

12. Tom Waits - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Inspired by Flannery O'Conner's short story A Good Man is Hard to Find

13. Stephanie Riggio - Voice Inside (Song of Siddharta)
Inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha

14. Rosanne Cash - The Summer I read Colette
Inspired by Colette's stories Collected Stories of Colette

15. Ana Porter - Hunger
Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

16. Gaskit - Peel This Away
Inspired by Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel Night