Farm AID Book Willie Nelson Neil Young John Melloncamp

Farm AID Book Willie Nelson Neil Young John Melloncamp Cougar Dave Mathews

Up for bids is this oversized hardcover version of Farm Aid: A Song For America, which is BRAND NEW (NOT a library book; NO reminder marks; NO punch holes).    This book also contains a foreword by Willie Nelson, who was instrumental in starting as well as continuing to donate his services to assist farmers.

Twenty years ago, Willie Nelson decided to have an all-star, open-air concert to call attention to the plight of American family farmers, then being squeezed off the land in record numbers by low commodity prices and high short-term indebtedness. In less than a month, the first Farm Aid concert occurred, and a long-term support system was born. The most impressive organizational fact in this lavish, compelling overview is that Farm Aid has only seven employees, not counting any of the musicians and technicians involved in the concerts, who all donate their work. The most impressive revelation about Farm Aid for most readers will probably be the range of work by and on behalf of farmers that it supports between concerts. Spot cash relief for families too strapped to buy groceries, crisis counseling for farmers who lose hope and even the will to live, financial advice and political advocacy, efforts to foster organic farming and cooperation and understanding between farmer and eater (the latter word is strongly preferred to the cold, economic label consumer), encouragement of local specialty farming (i.e., of particular varieties of a food crop)--Farm Aid backs all this and more, and working farmers and writers including Wendell Berry and Jim Hightower discuss it here.

Filling out one of the meatiest, most satisfying books of the year are long interviews with Farm Aid musician-directors Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews; sidebars about repeat Farm Aid concert performers, staff, and attendees; poems and song lyrics about farming; and hundreds of pictures, the large majority in color.  

I do offer combined shipping:

·        For US Ebayers who select USPS Media Mail (2-9 business days with delivery confirmation), $3.99 shipping for the first book plus another $1 for each additional book!  

·        For International Ebayers, since this is an oversized book that DOES NOT fit into a Global Priority Flat Rate Envelope, it would be shipped via USPS First Class International Mail: PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR A SHIPPING QUOTE.  It appears that First Class International is very reasonable for Canadian Ebayers, but for the other countries, it can be somewhat pricey…

Books will be shipped out within one business day of payment.

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