ONCE UPON A TIME.....Learn To Love It

 

JESSE WINCHESTER  Learn To Love It  (Bearsville,1974) - Folk rock

     As the title suggests, making a virtue of necessity had always been one of Jesse Winchester's goals, and by the time of the release of his third album, the American expatriate had gone ahead and assumed Canadian citizenship. This seemed to free him to comment explicitly on his antiwar exile in "Pharaoh's Army" and especially a version of the old campaign song "Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt" updated with new lyrics: "In the year of 1967, as a somewhat younger man, the call to bloody glory came, and I would not raise my hand." Elsewhere, Winchester continued to write love songs to his lost South ("L'Air de la Louisiane," "Mississippi You're on My Mind") and, to a lesser extent, to pursue the wistful philosophizing found on Third Down, 110 to Go ("Defying Gravity"). 

TRACKLIST : Wake Me

                    Every Word You Say

                    How Far To The Horizon?

                    L'Air De La Louisiane

                    Mississippi You're On My Mind

                    Third Rate Romance

                    Defying Gravity

                    Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt

                    Pharaoh's Army

                    Laisse Les Bons Temps Rouler

                    The End Is Not In Sight

                    I Can't Stand Up Alone

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