Was My Brother In The Battle?

August 07, 2012
Was My Brother In The Battle?
David Gompper
Stephen Swanson

This CD contains a program of songs about the individuals involved in America’s historic military conflicts, their friends and their families. The primary consideration was the texts rather than the settings. The fervent nationalistic patriotism of World War I; the intimate personal glimpses in to World War II; the satirical songs from the Cold War; the Vietnam-era protest songs; the setting of Abraham Lincoln’s letter to a mother who lost five sons—all demonstrate the conflict between the need to fight and the horrific losses war imposes.

—adapted from albanyrecords.com