Journeys with Garth Hewitt: Latin America

Description

Journeys with Garth Hewitt: Latin America is a compilation album by the British singer and songwriter Garth Hewitt, released on Myrrh Records in 1998, a division of Word. This compilation album brings together songs inspired by Garth Hewitt’s travels to Latin America. It is the fourth and final installment of the Journeys with Garth Hewitt Series. (Journeys with Garth Hewitt: The Holy Land, Journeys with Garth Hewitt: Africa, and Journeys with Garth Hewitt: Asia, being the first, the second, and the third, installments, respectively.)

The fourth (and last) of Myrrh’s geographical repackaging of Garth’s back catalogue, and the concept is as before: previously released material of various ages, (this time the date range is 1978 to 1994), all written as a result of Garth’s visits to Central and South America and his concern for those in that part of the world who suffer injustice and persecution. Included on this album are three songs sung in Spanish; the sleeve notes point out that, whilst «Un Nino Es El Futuro (A Child Is The Future)», recorded in 1989, has been available for some time in Spanish speaking countries, it has never been released in the UK. If your vinyl copies of ‘Alien Brain‘ and ‘I’m Grateful‘, are past their best, you might welcome having CD copies of the four songs from those albums, likewise if you fancy hearing the Hewitt pipes wrestling with singing in Spanish. If you’ve not experienced the UK’s longest-serving troubadour/vicar before, this would be a good place to start, as the 16 cuts here are some of his best. On the other hand, if, like me, you’ve got the CDs from which most of these trax have been lifted, you might think twice about buying. [Trevor Kirk, Cross Rhythms, December 1998]

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CD tracklist:

01. Oscar Romero
02. O Nicaragua
03. Un Nino Es El Futuro (A Child is the Future)
04. Indifferent to the Pain
05. How Hard
06. Companera de Vida
07. Little Outlaws, Dirty Angels
08. Ojos Silenciosos
09. Father Miguel
10. Rise Like the Sun
11. Tropical Night
12. I Saw Three Ships
13. Light a Candle in the Darkness
14. Beautiful Corn Island
15. Mud on my Eyes
16. Jesus de las Heridas

Note: Re-issued by Amos Trust in 2004, distributed in the UK by ICC. The re-released version contains “The Hidden River”, “Community of Love” (on Honduras), “Let the World be Changed” (the Trade Justice song), and the “Yo Creo en Nicaragua” (I Believe in Nicaragua), which was inspired by Garth’s 2004 visit. (2004-tracklist: 1.The Hidden River 2. Yo Creo en Nicaragua 3. Indifferent to the Pain 4. Un Nino es el Futuro 5. Companera de Vida 6. Community of Love 7. How Hard 8. Little Outlaws, Dirty Angels 9. O Nicaragua 10. Ojos Silenciosos 11. Oscar Romero 12. Father Miguel 13. Tropical Night 14. I Saw Three Ships 15. Beautiful Corn Island 16. Let the World be Changed 17. Jesus de las Heridas.)