Nathan Bell - I Don't Do This for Love, I Do This for Love (Working and Hanging On in America) [EU Edition] (2015)

A collection of 13 songs about work and working in America from the author of the 2014 folk radio hit “Names,” I Don’t Do This For Love (working and hanging on in America) continues the literary and lyrical work started on Nathan Bell’s two previous acclaimed albums, “Black Crow Blue” and “Blood Like a River.”

An exploration and examination of what it means to be a worker, father, brother, and son, his new album utilizes the talents of 7 Time IMBA Bassist of the year Missy Raines and her legendary band, The New Hip, Nashville artist Annie Mosher, and award winning performer and writer Craig Bickhardt, as well as guest appearances by Bluegrass legend Claire Lynch and Don Rigsby, Grammy winner Don Henry, and Cleveland legendary vocalist Rachel Brown, that creates a series of vivid images from the landscape of a changing America.

-From the haunting opening chords of the title track, to “Good Morning, Detroit’s” melancholy requiem for a lost city, to the rousing chorus of “Stamping Metal,” this CD is full of songs you will be unable to get out of your head. There is a resounding strength, clarity and grace to these songs that delivers real heft to this CD. “I Don’t Do This for Love, I Do This for Love” stands up to every replaying and the tales to each retelling because Nathan Bell, in the words of the late poet Philip Levine, knows "what work is."-

From the liner notes by John P. Beck-Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives
Michigan State University