Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies

Album by J. Matthew Gerken & Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher

RockFolkIndie RockExperimental

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    George Washington: Washington Dreams of the Hippopotamus
    4:21
  2. 2.
    John Adams: Armed With Only Wit and the Vigor of the U.S. Navy
    3:44
  3. 3.
    Thomas Jefferson: The Mouldboard of Least Resistance
    4:52
  4. 4.
    James Madison: Zinger
    3:17
  5. 5.
    James Monroe: The Last Cocked Hat
    3:43
  6. 6.
    John Quincy Adams: Death in the Speaker’s Room
    5:11
  7. 7.
    Andrew Jackson: Benevolence
    3:39
  8. 8.
    Martin Van Buren: The Little Magician
    5:06
  9. 9.
    William Henry Harrison: So You Don’t Have To
    4:09
  10. 10.
    John Tyler: In Hindsight
    3:34
  11. 11.
    James Knox Polk: The Other Is Better / The Landscape to Transform
    6:02
  12. 12.
    Zachary Taylor: Rough and Ready
    4:08
  13. 13.
    Millard Fillmore: The Proof Is in the Pudding
    4:03
  14. 14.
    Franklin Pierce: My Only Enemy Is Myself
    2:21

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    James Buchanan: God Will Strike You Down
    4:04
  2. 3.
    Abraham Lincoln: Malice, Charity, and the Oath of God
    5:27
  3. 4.
    Andrew Johnson: Was Ever Alone?
    3:51
  4. 5.
    Ulysses Simpson Grant: Helicopters Above Oakland
    4:51
  5. 6.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes: The Beard of God
    3:29
  6. 7.
    James Abram Garfield: Seven Months
    3:57
  7. 8.
    Chester Alan Arthur: The Epitome of Dignity
    4:55
  8. 9.
    Stephen Grover Cleveland: Bees and Honey
    3:29
  9. 10.
    Benjamin Harrison: Kid Gloves Hands Surplus to Big Sugar
    2:30
  10. 11.
    Stephen Grover Cleveland: Rubbermouth
    3:51
  11. 12.
    William McKinley: Czolgosz’s Dream
    4:04
  12. 13.
    Theodore Roosevelt: The Sherman Act Does Not Care
    2:49
  13. 14.
    William Howard Taft: There Was No Longer Use to Hide the Fact That It Was Gout
    5:05
  14. 15.
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Life Among Men
    3:40

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Warren Gamaliel Harding: An Army of Pompous Phrases
    4:52
  2. 4.
    John Calvin Coolidge: On Silence
    3:58
  3. 5.
    Herbert Clark Hoover: Woe Is a Spoon-Shaped Heart
    4:29
  4. 6.
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Illuminating the Bright Lines
    5:08
  5. 7.
    Harry S. Truman: Suits and Fine Trousers vs. Hiroshima
    3:06
  6. 8.
    Dwight David Eisenhower: When Ike Walked the Land
    4:08
  7. 9.
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There Is No Plan
    5:52
  8. 10.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson: Ladybird Take Me Home
    3:16
  9. 11.
    Richard Milhous Nixon: 2 Under Par Off the Coast of Africa
    9:21
  10. 12.
    Gerald Rudolph Ford: Now You See It, Now You Don’t See It
    4:16
  11. 13.
    Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr.: A Great Beam of Light
    4:30
  12. 14.
    Ronald Wilson Reagan: Such a Marvelous Dream
    5:04
  13. 15.
    George Herbert Walker Bush: It Was Foreshadowed Here (The Beginning of the End)
    2:57
  14. 16.
    William Jefferson Clinton: The Mighty Lion Will Not Roar Again
    5:38
  15. 17.
    George Walker Bush: Though the Night
    4:19

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