Eighteen in America Vol. 14: The Machine Age (1906–1916) | Full Album | Dads Front porch Gospel

Eighteen on Hester Street — the decade the machines took over, the ones that freed us and the ones that failed us. Eighteen in America · Volume 14 — The Machine Age (1906–1916) A WORD BEFORE THE MUSIC For Robert James — the fourteenth voice in the chain, and the first born American of her line. Ruth, Miriam's daughter: eighteen when the oilcloth parcel came back east with a sergeant's letter, twenty-eight when the trains ran north full of hope and the ships ran east toward war. She sang the decade the machines took over — the ones that freed us and the ones that failed us — and she carried out of one terrible March morning the law's own answer to grief. The good and the bad come braided like a rope. That rope is what you climb. Every song on this record tells the truth about one year — the good and the bad together, because that is how the years actually arrive. Nothing here is sugared, and nothing here is hopeless. TRACKS 0:00 1. Eighteen on Hester Street (1906) _:_ 2. The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand (1909) _:_ 3. The Fire (One Hundred Forty-Six) (March 1911) _:_ 4. Frances at the Window (1911–1914) _:_ 5. The Tin Lizzie (1908–1914) _:_ 6. The Unsinkable (April 1912) _:_ 7. The Great March (March 1913) _:_ 8. Bryan's Harvest (1913) _:_ 9. The Picture Show (1905–1915) _:_ 10. Over There, Not Yet Here (1914–1915) _:_ 11. North Star Trains (1915–1916) _:_ 12. Twenty-Eight in '16 (The Rope Holds) (1916) EIGHTEEN IN AMERICA — A 250-Year Song Cycle Twenty-five volumes. One narrator for every decade from 1776 to 2026, each one eighteen when their decade opens and twenty-eight when it closes — each one handing the rope to the next. Watch the whole series in order on the playlist. Written for Robert James Laird, and for every kid who thinks the world just now got hard. Black Coat Gospel · A Dad's Hub Productions release Written & produced by Ronnie Laird Plantersville, Texas #EighteenInAmerica #AmericanHistory #BlackCoatGospel