Stephan’s critically acclaimed debut album for Artemis Records. 12 songs at his most boundary-breaking and industry-confounding. Half solo, half with band: Mackie (Everlast, Fun Loving Criminals) on drums, Jean Marie ‘Leon’ Brichard of Roots/OK Player renown, and Gil Evans trumpeter Leif Arntzen. Stephan on vox, violins, guitars, and keyboards.

1. Slash and Burn
2. Break the Bread     lyrics     MP3
3. Taking Aim    lyrics     MP3
4. Lee Kyung Hae<
5. In the Air    lyrics     MP3
6. Turning of the Tide
7. You Ain't a Cowboy
8. World To Come     lyrics     MP3
9. Unspeakable Love
10. Billy in the Lowground
11. Bitter Happiness
12. Shenadoah

A musical manifesto for the global justice movement. Accompanying himself on guitar, Smith displays musical influences that run from rap to rock to country.

1. New World Worder
2. Merchants of Lies
3. Proclaiming Jubilee     lyrics     MP3
4. Business     lyrics     MP3
5. Darling Son     lyrics     MP3
6. Sally Goodin
7. All We Need Is Love
8. I'm On My Way
9. Universal Hobo
10. Oak Tree
11. Bring It On
12. Song Of Healing
    
    Bonus Track: The Bell, with Pete Seeger, Dean Ween, and Mary Harris

A special EP w/ 8 tracks - mp3, video

This release features different interpretations of "the anti-war anthem for our generation" (Guerilla News Network), including a spoken word version by Pete Seeger, a remix by DJ Spooky, and a roots version by Tara Nevins (of Donna the Buffalo), and a music video (links at left) by Kurt St. Thomas.

1. The Bell - Stephan Smith with Pete Seeger, Dean Ween, and Mary Harris     lyrics     MP3
2. All We Need Is Love - Stephan Smith
3. Merchants of Lies - Stephan Smith
4. The False Knight on the Road - Stephan Smith
5. The Bell (Spoken) - Pete Seeger
6. Paranoia Network Remix - DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
7. The Bell - Tara Nevins
8. The Bell (Live at the Washington Monument) - Stephan Smith

Howard Zinn on "The Bell":

"Stephan Smith's song THE BELL concentrates a world of meaning into its few lines. At the center of it is a child, which is perfectly fitting, because it is the children who are always the most heartbreaking victims of war, and who will be the victims of America's next war. The wisdom of the child stands in contrast to the platitudes uttered by the warmaker, "the man at his desk." The child sees through the false claim that to do to war means to love your country. The child sees through the Orwellian deceptions, in which lies are presented as truth. It is the child who challenges the call to war. And it is the child in the end who shows no fear, and it is the warmaker who must be afraid, because the courage of the child has a greater power than guns and bombs."

Stephan's debut album on Rounder Records.

1. Now's the Time     lyrics     MP3
2. It's Just Gonna Take E...
3. West Kentucky
4. Railroad Boy
5. All Together Now    lyrics    MP3
6. The Chickadee Boom
7. I Need To Know
8. Another Man Down
9. Ballad Of Abner Louima
10. Oh Death
11. The Media Mogul
12. Hopelessly And Endless...
13. Movin' Down The Line
14. Peace On Earth