So I went over to cmj, and found a musical project that might interest people on this website, its called "Of Great and Mortal Men, 43 songs for 43 US Presidents." Its really an interesting project since Kiefer, Gerken, and Pitcher bring some beautifully crafted songs, with dreamy college rock lyrics, based on the themes of all of our presidents. So far I've heard a few songs...... George W Bush is kind of heartbreaking.
Here is a write up of the project from the website:
On September 9, 2008, Standard Recording Company released the release of a triple CD Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies, a collection penned by songwriters J. Matthew Gerken (of Nice Monster), Christian Kiefer, and Jefferson Pitcher (formerly of Above the Orange Trees). The set features a slew of special studio guests including Califone, Rosie Thomas, Bill Callahan (Smog), Alan Sparhawk (Low), Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon), Marla Hansen (Sufjan Stevens), Steve Dawson (Dolly Varden), Vince DiFiore (Cake), Monahans, James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand), and Tom Carter (Charalambides).
This project initially came about as part of "February Album Writing Month," a website (www.fawm.org) that challenges songwriters to write 14 songs in 28 days. The three songwriters wrote and recorded rough demos of the first 42 songs in February 2006 (leaving only George W. Bush for later). "It was an amazing challenge to get that many songs written, even split three ways," notes Kiefer. "Blasting the first four or five is easy and then you’ve used up all the ideas that have been floating around and have to come up with new ones. And you have to come up with those new ideas right now......."
The best place to preview it is iTunes.....check it out....www.cmj.com for other great music.