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A History Of Every One
| Label | Editions Mego – EMEGO 173LP |
| Format | Vinyl, LP, Album |
| Barcode | 9120020389792 |
| Country | Austria |
| Released | 01 Oct 2013 |
| Genre | Blues |
| 1 | Solidarity Forever | |
| 2 | When You Wish Upon A Star | |
| 3 | Black Betty | |
| 4 | Ten Thousand Men Of Harvard | |
| 5 | Spanish Is The Loving Tongue | |
| 6 | White Christmas | |
| 7 | Zip A Dee Doo Dah | |
| 8 | Black Snake Moan | |
| 9 | Ballad Of Davy Crockett | |
| 10 | Onward Christian Soldiers | |
| 11 | Bring Me My Shotgun | |
| 12 | Massa's In The Cold Cold Ground |
Mastered By – Rashad Becker
A History of Every One by Bill Orcutt is an album of songs: minstrel songs, holiday songs, hymns, marches, cowboy songs, Disney songs, work songs, Delta blues. The original tunes themselves are nothing special, well known, but not particularly well-regarded. Most would be filler on a mid-'60s Doris Day or Burl Ives LP. What Orcutt does with them however is remarkable: expanding upon techniques developed on 2011's How the Thing Sings (EMEGO 128CD/LP) and incorporating ideas forged since his recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" during his 2012 tour, Orcutt interrogates the apparent banality of his material, subjecting it to discontinuity, disjuncture and a fractured repetition that is disturbing and revelatory. Titled after a line from Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and inspired by the scholarship of Elijah Wald and Eric Lott, A History of Every One is a bold re-writing of an important historical thread, an interpretation of a lost text and a bewildering extension upon Orcutt's already singular language.