Various Artists - Mark Twain Words and Music

Words & Music is a double-CD with a 40-page booklet of liner notes telling Twain's life in spoken word in song. Voices on this project include Jimmy Buffett (as Huck Finn), Garrison Keillor (as the narrator), Clint Eastwood (as Mark Twain), and Angela Lovell (as Susy Clemens). There are 14 story segments and 13 corresponding songs performed by Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Bradley Walker, Carl Jackson, the Church Sisters, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Marty Raybon, Val Storey, Vince Gill, Joe Diffie, and Ricky Skaggs. Grammy Award-winner Carl Jackson produced the project as a benefit for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri to commemorate 2010, the 100th anniversary of Twain's death and 175th anniversary of his birth.

1) Hello Yourself and See How You Like It
2) When Halley Came to Jackson
3) Hannibal Missouri Where My Boyhood Was Spent
4) Better Times A' Comin'
5) He Agreed to Teach Me to the Mississippi River
6) Run Mississippi
7) Several Years of Variegated Vagabondizing
8) A Cowboy in His Soul
9) It Liberates the Vandal to Travel
10) Safe Water
11) You Ain't Ever to Love Anybody But Me
12) I Wandered By a Brookside
13) It Was a Mighty Nice Family
14) Beautiful Dreamer
15) Don't Scrunch Up Like That Huckleberry
16) Huck Finn Blues
17) The Crows Would Gather on the Railing and Talk About Me
18) Indian Crow
19) So Wounded So Broken-Hearted
20) Love Is on Our Side
21) Wheresoever She Was There Was Eden
22) I Know You By Heart
23) My Conscience Got a Stirring Me Up Hotter Than Ever
24) Ink
25) The Report of My Death Was An Exaggeration
26) Comet Ride
27) The Truth Mainly