American Love by Camden Joy

Novelist, guerrilla artist, and music-maker Camden Joy returns with his second record of original material in seven months. This one becomes available on our nation's birthday, 4 July 2020. It is "American Love."

It was recorded from April to May with each musician in a far separate location. Files were emailed back and forth until a song was complete, and then they were turned over to the masterful Jason Sarubbi, who assembled the tracks and attempted, post-recording, to somehow "engineer" the sessions.

The fourteen songs on "American Love" feature a raw but melodic rock sound with astute lyrics full of historical figures, from early suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, and Lucy Stone, to narratives of Harry S Truman and William Jennings Bryant. (And then there's also a song about Johnny Paycheck...?)

A lot of famous dead Americans collide with a lot of dying American musical styles on this extraordinary release.

Camden Joy writes: "I love my country because Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B, I love my country because Richard Pryor, because Mark Twain, because George Marshall, because Bob Dylan, because Studs Terkel, because Rosa Parks, because Salk & Sabin, because Abigail Adams, because Dorothea Lange, because James Agee. This is my country! We have done a gigantic amount of good in the world and will again soon."

Tracklist

1.	American Love	2:50

2.	Wherefore	1:24

3.	Tequila	3:41

4.	Truman	3:11

5.	Bryan	2:11

6.	Love America	3:45

7.	The Ballad of Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone	2:44

8.	Revolution	3:39

9.	Opposites	3:41

10.	Submarines and Helicopters	2:07

11.	Breakin' Johnny Paycheck Outta Jail	3:30

12.	Colorado Congressman Looks to Scale Back Presidential Coins Program	2:17

13.	This One's Love	2:56

14.	How to Fight	2:57

Credits

released July 4, 2020

Songs by Camden Joy. Drums by Lukas Lerner. Bass by Mark Lerner. Engineered by Jason Sarubbi.

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