As you may have already seen on R.E.M. HQ - Michael is among a stellar cast of artists contributing songs to Democracy Forward, a compilation vinyl record of pro-democracy and protest songs being released by Democracy Forward and Bitter Southerner. All proceeds from the double album will go to the former, one of the key legal organizations doing the essential work of defending democracy, the United States Constitution, and the rule of law. The album will be available on July 4th at The Bitter Southerner.
It appears that the album pre-order has sold out, The Bitter Southerner states that the record will be available to pre-order again very soon.
The track with Michael and Big Red Machine is “Invocation” wondering if this is a new song.
Also, many other great artists are featured on this album such as Sierra Ferrell, Waxahatchee,
Hurray For The Riff Raff and more.
I think “Invocation” might be a spoken thing. No Time for Love Like Now is on there, so nothing new, musically, I don’t think. As you say, lots of great artists on there though.
R.E.M. just shared a Bitter Southerner reel on Instagram with the Stipe invocation. I have no idea how to share that. In fact, I wasn’t even sure how to listen to it, so I can’t tell you what it said! Getting old, man…
Do you know if it’s still there? I tried looking for it with no luck. Unless it was posted as an Instagram story, they’re only available for 12 or so hours I think.