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Our American Journey | 
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| Artist: Chanticleer
Creators: William Billings, Alfred Marcus Cagle, Brent Michael Davids, Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, William Hawley, Jackson Hill, Dale Lawson, Juan De Lienas, Juan Gutierrez De Padilla, Ann Ronell, Steven Stucky, Traditional, American Traditional, Spiritual Traditional, Joseph Jennings, Christopher Fritzsche, Eric Alatorre, Jesse Antin
Label: Teldec
Category: Music
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 60861
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 48556
UPC: 809274855626
EAN: 0809274855626
ASIN: B00006K11A
Release Date: November 12, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah | | • | Credidi | | • | Versa Est In Luctum | | • | Jefferson - Chanticleer | | • | David's Lamentation | | • | Soar Away | | • | Whispers | | • | Voices Of Autumn | | • | The Un-Covered Wagon | | • | Fuggi, Fuggi, Dolor | | • | Labbra Vermigile E Belle | | • | Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair | | • | Camptown Races | | • | Love Walked In | | • | Willow Weep For Me | | • | Calling My Children Home | | • | Wayfarin' Stranger | | • | I'm A Pilgrim |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This is Chanticleer's 25th recording and also marks its 25th anniversary season. The title refers to the group's wide-ranging repertoire; this disc includes Mexican baroque, traditional American songs in various styles and music commissioned by Chanticleer itself. A program that tries to please everybody is bound to disappoint somebody; however, no one could be disappointed by the singing. The sound of these 12 unaccompanied male voices has an unearthly, celestial beauty and purity; their blend is perfect. Though the singers rarely use vibrato, their intonation is impeccable both together and in solos. Their expressive range and stylistic versatility are incredible: they can project tenderness, pleading, and bitter protest and are equally at home in plainchant, Latin hymns, blues, spirituals, shouts and crooning. Among the highlights are the three opening hymns, settings of two poems of Torquato Tasso by William Hawley, commissioned by Chanticleer, which combine 16th- and 20th-century styles, and the two final folksongs, the last with a stride-style piano accompaniment, making a rousing, exuberant ending. The booklet, in three languages, is well laid-out and informative. --Edith Eisler
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| Customer Reviews:
 Awful January 3, 2009
Coffee Lover
I love Chanticleer...but this album is just plain awful. My husband also loves Chanticleer, but he skipped track after track....you can't call them songs or music. Very little in this album sounds like the Chanticleer we love. What happened?
 American Journey the result of hard work May 21, 2008
S. Vorhauer (Michigan)
The harmony is outstanding and in combination with the right song can ring a powerful emotional cord such as "Calling My Children Home". I doubt you can find a better group than Chanticleer.
Amazing, ecclectic album July 11, 2007
Benjamin L. Filippone (Pittsburgh, PA United States)
This CD is a great example of Chanticleer's phenomenal versatility, and it has something for everyone to appreciate. The Appalacian twang on the two Billings pieces is a bit much, but otherwise Chanticleer is in top form here and really shows what they are made of. As for the recording itself, something about the micing or acoustics in the recording process causes the countertenors to be just a tad too strong on a few tracks, but it's not a major problem.
To me, the most extraordinary tracks are: The Un-Covered Wagon with it's surreal effects and incredible array of vocal techniques, Willow Weep For Me, Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (Michael Lichtenauer's solo floats so effortlessly in a mixed vocal register, I have never heard anything like it!), and Whispers.
Warning: This CD Is Addictive December 10, 2006
H. F. Corbin (ATLANTA, GA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this CD after hearing this magnificent choral group sing "Calling My Children Home" in a recent concert. Written by Doyle Lawson (from the group "Quicksilver"), Charlie Waller and Robert Yates, the song is a standard bluegrass number I had known for years (Emmy Lou Harris for one has recorded it); but I had no idea it had found its way to San Francisco. Chanticleer has made this song their own. I cannot imagine anyone else's version coming close to theirs.
The group sings 17 other songs on this CD, most of them arranged by Joseph Jennings, Chanticleer's music director. Their version of William Billings' "David's Lamentation," a Sacred Harp work, will blow you away. Another favorite of mine is "Wayfaring' Stranger." There are also two Stephen Foster songs included, "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Camptown Races" as well as Gershwin and other American composers.
There seems to be no kind of music that this group cannot sing better than most other groups. They remind us that there is no musical instrument more beautiful than the human voice.
This CD should be one for the time capsule.
 Well worth buying August 16, 2005
Robert Farlee (Minneapolis, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Chanticleer fans know what to expect in terms of vocal quality, and won't be disappointed. I agree with another reviewer that the Appalachian accent is a little over the top, but I thought the shape-note style was perfect: brilliant sound, but not that nasal.
I enjoyed the many styles of music in this CD, but since I tend to listen to CDs straight through as albums, I found it a little disconcerting to go so suddenly from one style to the next (e.g., Mexican Baroque to shape note).
That being said, everything is splendidly, sensitively performed. The renditions of "Whispers" and "The Un-Covered Wagon" are breathtaking. By all means, buy and enjoy this!
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