Curb Records
2002
Osama-Yo' Mama The Album
About This Album
"When September 11th came, we were all horrified, outraged and we all just wanted to do something. Our president said, 'We need to go on with out lives and all of us need to do what we normally do.' I write songs and make records, so that's what I did. It was just my natural response. Maybe my doing what I do will help others focus some of their frustrations or have an appropriate way to laugh in these times when there's not that much to laugh about." -- Ray Stevens, in his liner notes for his February 2002 release, Osama-Yo' Mama.

Or, to put it another way, if Ray Stevens hadn't released an album after the worst attack on the United States in history, then the terrorists would have won. Nevertheless, Stevens didn't lie in his liner notes -- with this record, he does exactly what he's always done, which is to turn everything from the trivial to the profound to either a novelty song or treacly pop. Both are in display here, with most of the copyrights dating from 2000, suggesting that this album wasn't just in the pipeline before the world stopped turning, it was pretty much completed and only three songs were added once we all slowly returned to normalcy -- the 2002 copyright "The Lady on the Radio," a version of "United We Stand," and, of course, the title song.
Track List (try tracks 1,2 and 3)

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