New Obama Song Debuts on NPR’s All Things Considered

“Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies” was again featured on National Public Radio last week, as the new song “Someone to Wake” about Barack Obama (written by Christian Kiefer) was released. Nice Monster’s J. Matthew Gerken is one of the 3 songwriters that created “Of Great and Mortal Men,” and Nice Monster’s Jason Roberts, Greg Aaron, Chad Wilson, and Heather Phillips are among the more than 50 musicians featured on the project. For more details, please refer to:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99315266

‘Mortal Men’ Creators Craft A Song For Obama

By Joel Rose

by Rama Hughes

New artwork depicting Barack Obama was created as an addendum to the collection Of Great and Mortal Men.

~ by jmatthewgerken on January 20, 2009.