Bind Me to Free by Amy Martin

“Good Girl” speaks from the perspective of a teenage girl growing up in a fundamentalist Christian home, who is discovering that the radical Jesus in the Bible doesn’t quite match up with the safe, paternalistic Jesus she’s been taught through her church and family.

Amy’s songwriting, combined with her community efforts towards peace and social justice, earned her Missoula’s Peacemaker of the Year Award for 2004. Through the sale of her third album, This Fall, she raised $10,000 for women-run health and education projects in Afghanistan. Benefit concerts are a regular occurrence for her, and she has performed many times at the School of the Americas protest in Georgia and at peace rallies in Montana and throughout the country. Last summer, she traveled to Crawford, Texas to support Cindy Sheehan, and had the pleasure of performing shortly before Joan Baez, within earshot of the Bush family ranch.

Raven’s Wing Records (RWR) is an independent label created by Amy in 2004. RWR works to maintain high quality music, while remaining committed to the core values of artistic integrity, democratization of the music industry, environmental sustainability, and fair labor practices. RWR employed ten local musicians to practice and record Bind Me to Free. RWR also commissioned local artist Stephanie J. Frostad to complete an original painting for the CD cover.

About the Montana Human Rights Network… The Montana Human Rights Network is a grassroots, membership-based organization of over 1400 members. MHRN works to promote democratic values such as pluralism, equality and justice; challenge bigotry and intolerance; and organize communities to speak out in support of democratic principles and institutions. MHRN also challenges hate groups and other extremists who use violence and intimidation as tools for political activism. MHRN realizes this mission by organizing local human rights groups, monitoring and reporting on the activities of the radical right-wing groups in Montana, developing and pursuing public policy initiatives and holding public officials accountable in the area of human rights, conducting community education on human rights issues, and working to increase community support and legal protection for groups of people targeted by hate activity.

Sample and download music from the following websites: www.amymartin.com and www.myspace.com/amymartin.

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