''Liberty!'' is a 1997 album by

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Mu ...

, which comprises his soundtrack to the six-part PBS series ''

Liberty! ''Liberty! The American Revolution'' is a six-hour documentary miniseries about the Revolutionary War, and the instigating factors, that brought about the United States' independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was first broadcast on ...

''. The album is composed mostly of period songs arranged by O'Connor, with the exception of "Freedom" and the theme for the series, written by O'Connor, entitled "Song of the Liberty Bell".

Track listing

All tracks except for "Freedom" were arranged or written by

. #"Song of the Liberty Bell" (folk version) – 5:45 #"Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" (traditional) (feat.

James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the single "Fi ...

) – 2:56 #"Surrender the Sword" (for violin and strings) – 9:24 #"Soldier's Joy" (traditional) – 4:06 #"When Bidden to the Wake or Fair" ( William Shield) – 7:08 #"The World Turned Upside Down" (traditional) – 2:45 #"Bunker Hill" ( Andrew Law) – 5:43 #"Freedom" ( Richard Einhorn) – 3:40 #"The Flowers of Edinburgh" (traditional) – 4:15 #"Brave Wolfe" (traditional) – 6:47 #" Devil's Dream" (traditional) – 3:27 #"Song of the Liberty Bell" (O'Connor) – 6:45

Personnel

Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American Cello, cellist. Born to Chinese people, Chinese parents in Paris, he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four. At the age of seven, ...

Cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young ...

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

also: *

- Producer *Laraine Perri - Executive Producer *Dave Sinko, Charles Harbutt, Eric Prestige - Engineers *Glenn Spinner, Tracy Hackney, Mark Wessel, Paul Falcone - Assistant Engineers *Dave Sinko, Richard King - Mix Engineers *

- Editing and Additional Mixing

References

Mark O'Connor albums 1997 albums {{soundtrack-stub