Portrait of President Jimmy Carter

Lyrics

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Chronology

• Five American Portraits
  • Mayo Thompson - vocals
  • Gina Birch - vocals

Retrospectives

Mayo Thompson, 2010

[...] Jimmy Carter being from Georgia, you know, 'Georgia On My Mind.' 'Rainy Night In Georgia.' And then 'Dixie's Land,' something - sort of the forbidden, the hot icon, because it's associated with the Confederacy and associated with the old slaveholding South and the contradictions which persist and continue to this time, continue to haunt the whole relation, as we see. So all of that came into it.

Interpretations

• Musical references listed on the back of the record:
  • "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Charmichael and Stuart Gorrell)
  • "Dixie's Land" (Daniel Decatur Emmett)