Description
Tracks
1) Annie Told the Rebel
2) High Plains Drifter
3) Stephanie
4) Can't You See I'm Not Over You
5) Viet Nam Blues
6) I'm Living In An Old Guitar
7) Down By The River
8) Tennessee Twister
9) Step The World And Let Me Off
10) Touring ON A Marta Bus
11) Saudi Arabia Iraqi Blues
12) Loving A Soldier
13) We Cry Together At The Wall
14) Another Son Goes Down
15) Forgotten Man
Artist Profile
A Vietnam veteran has pledged one-third of the profits from his recording, "Loving A Soldier," to charity. Elvis L. Carden said the bulk of the funds will go to the Sergeant Arthur N. McMellen Orphanage in Vietnam. Carden hopes that the donations will help carry on the work of Staff Sergeant McMellen, who was killed by Viet Cong assassination team in 1965.
"Sergeant McMellen was our mess sge, at Company 'C', 701st Maintenance Battalion," Sp. Carden recalls, "Three days before he was killed in an ambush, he had cooked up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for some 70 children from a nearby orphanage and 20 Vietnamese soldiers and their families. The gesture, which was given world-wide coverage, went over well and he decided to do the same thing for Christmas. 'Mac' was out buying a pig for Christmas dinner when he was killed."
The Atlanta-born soldier got his start as a professional singer through Dan Johnson, a disc jockey with radio station WTJH, East Point GA. He began signing when he was five years old.
Carden sings with some authority about the effects of war. He is 80 percent disabled from the war and is an advocate for Disabled American Veterans. Carden said he hopes his album will put some focus on the plight all soldiers who need the support of the country. "I just want to try to bring much public awareness to the problems of vets," says Elvis.
See further details, "Living In An Old Guitar."
Credits
� Guitar House Records