Released December 12, 1987 Length 26:31 (Side A) Artist Bernie Sanders Producer Todd Lockwood Genres Folk music, Spoken word | Recorded November 1987 We Shall Overcome
(1987) — Release date 12 December 1987 Label BurlingTown Recordings | |
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Studio White Crow Audio; (Burlington, Vermont) | ||
Bernie sanders we shall overcome
We Shall Overcome is an album by American politician Bernie Sanders, recorded and released in 1987. The album combined folk music and spoken word, narrated by Sanders. He was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, at the time of the album's release. The album was remastered and rereleased in 2014 and has gained wide exposure during Sanders' presidential campaign.
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Background
In 1987, Burlington-based music producer Todd Lockwood was sipping coffee at Leunig's Bistro when he came up with the idea to approach the city's mayor, Bernie Sanders, to record a musical project at his studio, White Crow Audio. Lockwood wrote a letter to Mayor Sanders and a meeting was arranged at the mayor's office. Lockwood originally imagined the album as an audio portrait of Bernie Sanders, but Sanders saw it as an opportunity to tell a much larger story.
Sanders made a list of ten songs he would be willing to record, five of which made the cut for the album.
Once word of the project spread among the Vermont music community, musicians began lining up to be part of it. The studio sessions were reminiscent of the Michael Jackson - Lionel Richie recording, We Are The World.
Personnel
Credits are taken from liner notes of We Shall Overcome.
Band
Guest musicians
Narrative
Arrangements
Technical personnel
Artistic personnel
Songs
1Oh Freedom30 Vermont Artists4:24
2The Banks Are Made of Marble30 Vermont Artists5:51
3Where Have All the Flowers Gone30 Vermont Artists5:48