The same could be said for the senator's once-obscure spoken word folk album, "We Shall Overcome. Originally released in , when Sanders was mayor of Burlington, the album has provided fodder for late night comedians after resurfacing during the presidential campaign. It features Sanders, speaking in his unmistakable accent, delivering messages of hope and unity while about 30 Vermont artists provide musical accompaniment. Charitable reviewers have placed "We Shall Overcome" in the "so bad it's good" category. But despite all the ridicule -- or perhaps because of it -- people are actually buying it. According to Nielsen Music, the album has sold 1, copies since Sanders entered the presidential race at the end of April. As of this writing, it's the 62nd most downloaded album on Amazon. It was Lockwood, 64, who was inspired to re-release the album in after some of the songs racked up thousands of plays on SoundCloud. Lockwood said the album was "about at break-even, inclusive of remastering and marketing costs" by the end of last year. Thanks to a recent sales surge that Lockwood attributes to Sanders' strong showing in Iowa, the candidate will likely come into royalties in the near future.


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The album combined folk music and spoken word , narrated by Sanders. He was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont , at the time of the album's release. The album was remastered and rereleased in and gained wide exposure during Sanders' presidential campaign. In , Burlington -based music producer Todd Lockwood was sipping coffee at Leunig's Bistro when he came up with the idea to approach the city's mayor, Bernie Sanders , to record a musical project at his studio, White Crow Audio. Lockwood originally imagined the album as an audio portrait of Bernie Sanders, but Sanders saw it as an opportunity to tell a much larger story. Sanders made a list of ten songs he would be willing to record, five of which made the cut for the album. Once word of the project spread among the Vermont music community, musicians began lining up to be part of it. It is estimated that the cassette tape sold about to copies, [4] [5] out of 1, that were produced.
Folk yeah! Eat your heart out, William Shatner. Lockwood remembers thinking up the idea in This paradox appealed to me.
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