Mark Twain: Words & Music
~ Various (Artist)
229% Sales Rank in Music: 165 (was 543 yesterday) 
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Review & Description
Mark Twain: Words & Music is a double-CD with a 40-page booklet of liner notes telling Twain's life in spoken word in song. Voices on this project include Jimmy Buffett (as Huck Finn), Garrison Keillor (as the narrator), Clint Eastwood (as Mark Twain), and Angela Lovell (as Susy Clemens). There are 14 story segments and 13 corresponding songs performed by Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, The Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Grammy Award-winner Carl Jackson produced the project as a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri to commemorate 2010, the 100th anniversary of Twain's death and 175th anniversary of his birth.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #520 in Music
- Released on: 2011-09-21
- Number of discs: 2
