Leave No Millionaire Behind by Pierce Woodward

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Political | Americana

10 tracks | 38 minutes

Released Nov 2003
on Long Run Records

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Banjo-frailing radiator-banging Pierce Woodward has combined his passions for songwriting and progressive politics to create an album of music that he hopes will help restore a little bit of sanity to a society gone mad.

Editorial review

Northeast Public Radio commentator and multi-instrumentalist Pierce Woodward eloquently does his part to make a difference on his release Leave No Millionaire Behind. His politically-charged folk songs are directly influenced by Arlo and Woody Guthrie and Seegers of the past, with a similarly fiery demeanor, and a righteous passion for what he believes in. Ably supported by members of the Mammals and a number of West Coast folkies, the songs range from traditional fiddle tunes with re-imagined lyrics, to heavy indie rock numbers, all of which focus closely on his progressive political views and an unflagging desire to spread the word. Like an informational pamphlet with speakers, the album ranges widely in musical style and tempo, but Woodward never veers from his driving social commentary and gently straining voice. The whole project is summed up nicely in the protest song "Amy Got Arrested," in which Woodward states "Everybody's pissed off at the President," and while that simplifies the many ideas on Leave No Millionaire Behind it certainly exemplifies his straight-ahead views on the events of the world and his youthful enthusiastic certainty that he can change them. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Pierce Woodward is a left-leaning, twenty-something songslinger-fiddler from the Hudson River Valley of New York.

If Jesus came to America he would be deported,

He would have no trial and it wouldn't be reported.

("Evildoers")

Pierce spent two years touring far and wide as the bassist in New York's "trad is rad" stringband, The Mammals, before breaking off from the group to spend more time on his own multilateralist-subversive repertoire. He is also in the mysterious, folktronic band, the Jolly Bankers, in which he plays a nasty clawhammer banjo and the occasional mean fiddle.

Recently, he recorded ten of his most fierce & fiery political songs and put them on a CD called Leave No Millionaire Behind. It wasn't exactly a solo project - the album features 10 guest musicians. Pierce plays a little of everything on this record, including a radiator. The Boston Phoenix says he "sings truth to power like a dust bowl poet railing against the robber barons of yore. Woody would be proud."