Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. PresidenciesOf Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies
Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies
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Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies

Album by J. Matthew Gerken, Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher

Released 9 September 2008
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Tracklist

  • CD 1: Washington to Pierce (1789-1857)
  • 1
    George Washington: Washington Dreams of the Hippopotamus
    4:21
  • 2
    John Adams: Armed With Only Wit and the Vigor of the U.S. Navy
    J. Matthew Gerken feat. Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher; intro and fade out music by These United States
    3:44
  • 3
    Thomas Jefferson: The Mouldboard of Least Resistance
    4:52
  • 4
    James Madison: Zinger
    3:17
  • 5
    James Monroe: The Last Cocked Hat
    feat. Marla Hansen
    3:43
  • 6
    John Quincy Adams: Death in the Speaker’s Room
    5:11
  • 7
    Andrew Jackson: Benevolence
    feat. Califone
    3:39
  • 8
    Martin Van Buren: The Little Magician
    feat. Tom Brosseau
    5:06
  • 9
    William Henry Harrison: So You Don’t Have To
    4:09
  • 10
    John Tyler: In Hindsight
    feat. Bill Callahan
    3:34
  • 11
    James Knox Polk: The Other Is Better / The Landscape to Transform
    Monahans
    6:02
  • 12
    Zachary Taylor: Rough and Ready
    4:08
  • 13
    Millard Fillmore: The Proof Is in the Pudding
    4:03
  • 14
    Franklin Pierce: My Only Enemy Is Myself
    feat. Stephen Yerkey
    2:21
  • CD 2: Buchanan to Wilson (1857-1921)
  • 1
    James Buchanan: God Will Strike You Down
    feat. Reid Maclean
    4:04
  • 2
    Abraham Lincoln: Malice, Charity, and the Oath of God
    feat. Wooden Wand
    5:27
  • 3
    Andrew Johnson: Was Ever Alone?
    3:51
  • 4
    Ulysses Simpson Grant: Helicopters Above Oakland
    4:51
  • 5
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes: The Beard of God
    3:29
  • 6
    James Abram Garfield: Seven Months
    3:57
  • 7
    Chester Alan Arthur: The Epitome of Dignity
    4:55
  • 8
    Stephen Grover Cleveland: Bees and Honey
    3:29
  • 9
    Benjamin Harrison: Kid Gloves Hands Surplus to Big Sugar
    2:30
  • 10
    Stephen Grover Cleveland: Rubbermouth
    3:51
  • 11
    William McKinley: Czolgosz’s Dream
    feat. Magnolia Summer
    4:04
  • 12
    Theodore Roosevelt: The Sherman Act Does Not Care
    feat. Dean Haakenson
    2:49
  • 13
    William Howard Taft: There Was No Longer Use to Hide the Fact That It Was Gout
    5:05
  • 14
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Life Among Men
    feat. Jamie Stewart
    3:40
  • CD 3: Harding to Bush (1921-2008)
  • 1
    Warren Gamaliel Harding: An Army of Pompous Phrases
    4:52
  • 2
    John Calvin Coolidge: On Silence
    The Radar Bros.
    3:58
  • 3
    Herbert Clark Hoover: Woe Is a Spoon-Shaped Heart
    4:29
  • 4
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Illuminating the Bright Lines
    5:08
  • 5
    Harry S. Truman: Suits and Fine Trousers vs. Hiroshima
    feat. Denison Witmer
    3:06
  • 6
    Dwight David Eisenhower: When Ike Walked the Land
    feat. Mark Kozelek & Alan Sparhawk
    4:08
  • 7
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There Is No Plan
    5:52
  • 8
    Lyndon Baines Johnson: Ladybird Take Me Home
    Steve Dawson
    3:16
  • 9
    Richard Milhous Nixon: 2 Under Par Off the Coast of Africa
    feat. Tom Carter
    9:21
  • 10
    Gerald Rudolph Ford: Now You See It, Now You Don’t See It
    4:16
  • 11
    Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr.: A Great Beam of Light
    feat. Rosie Thomas
    4:30
  • 12
    Ronald Wilson Reagan: Such a Marvelous Dream
    Califone
    5:04
  • 13
    George Herbert Walker Bush: It Was Foreshadowed Here (The Beginning of the End)
    2:57
  • 14
    William Jefferson Clinton: The Mighty Lion Will Not Roar Again
    5:38
  • 15
    George Walker Bush: Though the Night
    4:19

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