Songwriters Ana Egge and Dick Connette borrowed lyrics from America’s founding documents, its professed ideals and existing protest songs to create a new anthem.
The pair co-wrote, and Egge recorded, “This Time,” a musically delicate, lyrically forceful track set to acoustic guitar, upright bass and strings arranged by Rob Moose.
We’re demanding the dream is no longer deferred/that our nation of laws live up to its word, Egge sings with support from Lucy Wainwright Roche and J. Hoard.
Despite copping phrases from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, “If I Had a Hammer” and “For What it’s Worth,” Egge and Connette came up with a good, solid protest song in “This Time,” which is strident, but not overwrought; heartfelt, but never corny.
And that – despite these wrenching times – is something that’s been hard for songwriters to come by as of late.
Grade card: Ana Egge – “This Time” – B
Source: Kristopher Weiss, Sound Bites