This release sees Pennsylvanian Jefferson Pepper two thirds of the way through his ambitious 50 song project to try and answer the question “What has happened to my country?” via an examination of American social history as evidenced by the lives of ordinary people. Pepper set about this task after being both inspired by Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States and perplexed by the legal wrangles of Christian fundamentalists to deny the theories of evolution - which all took place in a court near his home town. Pepper is no stranger to going against the majority grain - his 2005 debut Christmas in Fallujah was full of songs calling the bluff of the American dream. Continue Reading