I Sing Walt Whitman

Hear Brother Walt's juicy verses 'again for the first time' as if he were miraculously back to chant, sing, and testify his hopeful and startlingly modern worldview at a Chautauqua-tent revival meeting. Whitman called them his 'songs,' and his poems do recall the Songs of Solomon, gospel choirs, and the Italian operas that he loved. But opera has fallen to the elite since Whitman's day, so Walt's rolling lines are placed into contemporary gospel, folk, and urban music settings where -- hallelujah! -- the old man's riffs about sex, death, evolution, all... sound alive and essential again.