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America Is Hard To Find
Daniel Berrigan, John Hostetter, Allan Sorvall, David Turner
Label: Multi-Trax ‎– ZB-176, Multi-Trax ‎– ZB-177
Released: 1970
Style: Acid Rock, Avantgarde, Poetry

Side A: Poetry By Daniel Berrigan
A1 False Gods, Real Men 8:06
A2 Trial Poems 1 5:34
A3 Trial Poems 2 4:52
Side B: Rock Mass
B4 Kyrie 4:18
B5 Gloria 3:48
B6 Credo 4:34
B7 Sanctus 6:37

Music by John Hostetter and Alan Sorvall
Additional material, poetry and music – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Vivian Sorvall, Alice Mack Sawyer, Country Joe and the Fish, Fred Neil
John Hostetter – vocals, narration, guitar and 12 string guitar, bongos
Alan Sorvall – vocals, guitars
David Turner – drums, percussion
Larry Tucker – bass guitar
Brad Stahl – bass guitar
Andrea Musher, Susan Strauss, Deena Zalkind Spear – vocals
Bret Littlehals – harmonica
Ken Perlman – poetry narration
Sacraments distributed by Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Performed Dec 15, 1969 at Cornell U., Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room
Co-producer – Steve Grunder
Engineer – Steve Grunder
Performer, Liner Notes, Written By – Daniel Berrigan (tracks: A1-A3)
Producer – Steve Rathe
Cover art – Sister Corita

Side 1 is a reading of several poems by Daniel Berrigan. Side 2 is a rock mass perhaps without any involvement by Berrigan. Recorded February 27-March 2, 1970 in Ithaca, New York
I supposed you could loosely place America Is Hard To Find in the same category as psychedelic rock masses by The Electric Prunes and Mind Garage. At least side two anyway which is credited to John Hostetter, Alan Sorvall and David Turner. Their music definitely has the feel of the times: raw, both electric and acoustic, heavy one moment, subtle the next, sometimes experimental and unstructured, pausing for a passage of raving redneck poetry on ‘Credo’. Lyrics for the most part are of the damaged brain-fried hippie variety, often inscrutable without the assistance of ludes, but connected by recognizable choruses of Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, grant us peace, and the like. Side one contains three spoken word poems (no music) by radical priest Daniel Berrigan: ‘False Gods, Real Men’, ‘Trial Poems I’, and ‘Trial Poems II’, all inspired by a civil disobedience experience. Label says produced by Steve Rathe for The Festival Of Life. Pretty cosmic stuff that out-weirds even Pat Berkery.
Dan's soul left his body on April 30, 2016. Actor, musician, and artist John Hostetter departed on September 2 of the same year.
Missa Moratoria was the composers’ first collaboration in the evolution of America Is Hard To Find, a studio album of original music and poetry produced to fund the April 1970 festival weekend of that same name honoring Daniel Berrigan, S.J., who by that time was a fugitive from justice — for a greater justice’s sake. On Side A, Dan reads his poem “America Is Hard To Find” as well as others he’d been writing, with comments and stories about courageous actions taken in the cause of peace. On Side B, you can hear the recorded version of the completed rock mass, which the band performed in Barton Hall for an audience of 10,000 during that dramatic weekend festival.