Britain's finest living songwriters are captured live, presenting two nights of their inimitable performance.

'A highly subversive pairing of two of the left's most eloquent songwriters.'
--Daily Telegraph

In this glorious 2 DVD set, Britain's finest living songwriters are captured live (on tour in Berkeley, CA), presenting two nights of their original songs, words, and inimitable performance.

Turning Silence into Song (Disc One) showcases a pair of career-spanning 'greatest hits,' with a suitable sprinkling of new and previously unreleased material. All introduced and contextualized with a large helping of trademark wit and dry irony.

The Liberty Tree (Disc Two) tells the story of Tom Paine's extraordinary life, interweaving Paine's own words, from his letters and the pamphlets which made him one of the most influential and dangerous writers of his age, with extracts from newspaper reports, diaries, letters, and other documents of the times. The songs of Robb Johnson and Leon Rosselson add another dimension to the story, reflecting Paine's radical ideas and evaluating them in the context of the 21st century. This unique blend of words and music challenges received opinion in the same way Paine's writings did.

Together, herein you'll find over four hours of the finest contemporary songs, stories, humor, and observation from the greatest practitioners of the craft.

Bonus Materials

• House Concert (DVD Extra) 1- We Sell Everything - Leon Rosselson (8:43) 2- Justice Bus - Robb Johnson (3:59) 3- Benefits - Leon Rosselson (7:24)

Cast & Crew

•       Leon Rosselson
•       Robb Johnson

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Be Reasonable
• Conversation on a Mobile
• Where Are the Barricades'
• Deep Down Underground
• Harry's Gone Fishing
• Charlie
• I Close My Eyes
• The Ghost of Georges Brassens
• Penny Pot Lane
• Bringing the News from Nowhere
• Small Revolutions
• Everybody Loves
• Like Love
• The Big Wheel
• The Poet, the Wife and the Monkey
• Karl Marx City Blues
• When I Look Up
• Song of the Olive Tree
• My Father's Jewish World
• Red & Green
• The World Turned Upside Down
Disc 2:

• The Morning Star of the Revolution
• The Roots of the Liberty Tree
• The Idle Talker & Drinker at the White Hart Social Club, Lewes
• The Editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine
• Rosa's Lovely Daughters
• Reflections on Unhappy Marriages
• Don't Get Married, Girls
• Independency
• Common Sense
• The Wall That Stands Between
• The Times That Try Men's Souls
• 3 Minutes' Silence
• The Rights of Man Part 1
• Remembrance Day
• The Old Construction
• We All Said Stop the War
• The Rights of Man Part 2
• Monarchy
• On Her Silver Jubilee
• 'Riots & Tumults'
• Picking Up the Pieces
• Wages & Rights
• Oliver Twist
• Countries That Are Called Civilised
• Palaces of Gold
• High Treason
• The Defect Lies in the System
• Changing the Guard
• Execution & War
• The Terror
• Citizen Paine
• The Age of Reason
• Stand Up for Judas
• Applause & Abuse
• The Life of a Libeller
• Red & Green
• The World Turned Upside Down

Additional Details

Label: Pm Press

Genre: Folk

Language: English

Run Time: 250 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/14/14

UPC: 760137610090