TOO MANY YEARS:
A Benefit CD for Clear Path International

For too many years landmines and bombs have been claiming lives and limbs in Vietnam.

The Vietnam War ended 30 years ago on April 30th, 1975, but bombs and landmines left over from that conflict continue to injure and kill on a near daily basis. At Clear Path, we work to address the needs of survivors of such accidents.

Over the past few months, we have joined forces with a number of great musicians and other friends to put together a benefit CD to help raise much needed funds to continue our work in Vietnam and other parts of Asia.

We're pretty proud of the result.

Not only does this CD feature the ever-popular NATALIE MERCHANT and alternative-rock icon JULIANA HATFIELD, but also the legendary JORMA KAUKONEN of Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane.

We have jam band giants WIDESPREAD PANIC covering The Doors live and THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT with a song written in collaboration with one of the Grateful Dead’s longtime songwriters.

Breakout artists THE JIM GILMOUR BAND and RICK REDINGTON & THE LUV MACHINE offer up AN HOUR IN TEXARKANA and MOTHER EARTH, two new songs which are fresh and unforgettable.

This CD also features rock legacies SALLY TAYLOR and THE BEN TAYLOR BAND. Sally and Ben’s parents are James Taylor and Carly Simon and they have the talent to back up their famous names.

Bluegrass fans will love the old and the new with THE NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND’s track off the classic WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN album followed up by bluegrass’s hottest band the YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND.

Grateful Dead fans will be stunned by THE DARK STAR ORCHESTRA’s dead on cover of EYES OF THE WORLD and fans of THE SAMPLES will be happy to see we have included Sean Kelly’s lamentation of war in his classic “OCEAN OF WAR”.

Finishing this CD is world renowned composer PHILIP GLASS on piano with FOG OF WAR. The title track off the Oscar Winning documentary profiling Vietnam-War-Era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.

Special thanks to legendary Bay Area artist Stanley Mouse for providing the cover art.

Due to licensing agreements we can only produce a limited number of these CDs. A rarity to add to your collection, on top of being a phenomenal collection of music for a worthy cause.

ALL proceeds from this CD will benefit Clear Path International.

Too Many Years is dedicated in memory of Marla Ruzicka the 28-year-old founder of the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) who gave her life helping civilian victims of war in Iraq on April 17, 2005 and to the families CPI serves in Vietnam.

The artists on this CD donated their work to make this project a success. Thank you to all of them for their generosity, and to those they work with for their professionalism.

We would also like to thank Stanley Mouse for the cover art, Serena for posing for it, the fabulous Montuori sisters Beth and Melissa, Megan Boyd, Meredith Johnson, Gary Smith, Vanessa Kaukonen, Buck Williams, Kevin Morris, Blake Zidell, Mitch Terriciano and WEBK, Casey Verbeck, Tess Engel, Matt and all the folks at Airshow Mastering, Dave Chaney, Andy and Jan Serafen, Brita “Itchy” Stevenson, Alan Trist, John McEuen, Tom Becci, Dexter Johnson, John Perry Barlow, Don Christiansen, Kara Bilof, Norman Gopin, Rusty Kelly, Dean Bragonier, Jennifer Goodman, Don and the folks at Discmasters, Megan Burke, Nahela Hadi, Laura Kane and the rest of the good people of Adopt-a-Minefield, our good friends at Mines Advisory Group, and all of our donors who make possible the work of Clear Path International.

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