Bigger than Yourself - Digital
Bigger than Yourself - Digital
Bigger Than Yourself is a collection of fifteen McCutcheon/Kahn originals that deal with pooling ideas and energy, sharing leadership, sticking up for yourself and one another, and sticking together. Kids organize their school to convince a principal of their ideas, figure out how to afford things one can't buy alone, get along with people from different cultures. There's even a song about a babysitter as a replacement worker. It's a ton of fun and, as usual, boasts a world full of musical styles and ideas.
Bigger Than Yourself was released on Labor Day in 1997, and was immediately adopted by the Pittsburgh Public Schools as a teaching tool. The local Labor Council, in honor of that year's AFL/CIO Convention, made a gift of hundreds of copies of the album to the schools.
The George Meany Center for Labor Education has developed a great study guide for Bigger Than Yourself. It's geared toward classroom use and takes the album one song, one concept at a time. It's a great accompaniment to those of you who want to expand upon the ideas presented in this Grammy-nominated collection of songs about fair play, cooperation, collection action, and fun.
I Got a Dime (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 3:58
The Principle (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:43
Whatchagonnabe? (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:46
Write It Down (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 3:25
Someone Else Decide (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 3:30
Friendship (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 4:56
Play Fair (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 3:25
Kids on Strike (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 3:29
Still the Ones for Me (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:30
Stick Together (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:55
Sing Me (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 4:44
Friends DonâÂÂt Let Friends (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:54
Running for President (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:11
Safe at Home (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 2:30
Bigger Than Yourself (John McCutcheon & Si Kahn) 4:20
Year released: 1997
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This is a pay-what-you-will download. Knowing that there are many who’ve lost their jobs and their incomes, as well as many who are economically unfazed by this current situation, please…help yourself to the music if you cannot afford to buy it, but please be generous if you can. It’s entirely up to you.
You have 2 options for downloading this album.
1) Mp3 files. These are smaller files, more quickly downloaded, and take up less space on your devices. This is what almost all downloads are from everywhere.
2) Wav files. These are larger, full-range audio files, like you would get on a CD. They'll take longer to download and will take up more space. These are rarely offered as download files.
So why are we offering both? Because John works hard to get his albums sounding great and the compression used on mp3 files erases much of the fine tuning. John hates mp3's. Most musicians do. Yeah, we know it's kinda snobbish, but ears are what a musician is paid for, huh?
If you don't want to choose, you can have both. Listen to the mp3's on your mobile devices and burn a CD with the wav files for the total listening experience. With our compliments.
Thanks for your interest, thanks for being careful, and thanks for helping us all get through this with our souls intact.
