Jack Johnson & Friends Best Of Kokua Festival 2LP

13 Live Performances On Double LP! Features Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper & more!
Culled from six years of Johnson’s eco-minded music festival in Hawaii, Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival, features 13 live performances highlighting onstage collaborations with legendary musicians Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Ziggy Marley, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and more!

Johnson and his band team up with more than a dozen guest artists to perform both original works and spirited covers of classic songs. The album features several of Johnson’s breezy folk-rock gems, including “Constellations” (with Eddie Vedder), “Mudfootball” (with Ozomatli & G. Love), “Breakdown” (with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro), and “Better Together” (with Hawaiian singer Paula Fuga).

Elsewhere on Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival, Johnson joins his guests for stripped-down renditions of their own songs: Taj Mahal offers his bluesy “Further On Down The Road,” Jackson Browne revisits “Take It Easy” with the help of singer/guitarist John Cruz (who also shares his Hawaiian anthem “Island Style”), and the Marley brothers bring the reggae with Ziggy’s “Cry, Cry, Cry” and Damian’s dancehall banger “Welcome to Jamrock.”

Rounding out the record are an eclectic collection of covers, including Bob Marley’s “High Tide or Low Tide” (featuring Ben Harper), Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” (featuring Eddie Vedder) and Jimmy Buffet’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (featuring Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds). Willie Nelson, meanwhile, delivers a Ben Harper-assisted take on “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” the Fred Rose-penned classic he popularized.

Held on Earth Day weekend at Honolulu’s Waikiki Shell since its inception in 2004, the Kokua Festival serves as both a community-centered celebration of music and environmental awareness and as the major fundraiser for the Kokua Hawaii Foundation (a nonprofit organization founded by Johnson and his wife Kim in 2003 to support environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaii). Like the festival itself, Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival spotlights artists who share the Kokua Hawaii Foundation’s mission of protecting the planet and cultivating environmental consciousness.

Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival is Johnson’s follow-up to his fifth studio album To The Sea, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart when it was released in June 2010.

Features:
• Double LP
• Recorded Live from Kokua Festival

Selections:
LP 1
1. Better Together (with Paula Fuga)
2. Cry Cry Cry (Ziggy Marley, Johnson & Paula Fuga)
3. A Pirate Looks At Forty (with Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds)
4. Mudfootball (with Ozomatli & G. Love)
5. Constellations (with Eddie Vedder & Kawika Kahiapo)
6. Take It Easy (Jackson Browne, Johnson & John Cruz)
7. Island Style (John Cruz, Johnson & Jackson Browne)
LP 2
1. Breakdown (with Jake Shimabukuro)
2. Further On Down the Road (Taj Mahal with Jack Johnson)
3. Welcome To Jamrock (Damian "Jr Gong" Marley with Johnson & Paula Fuga)
4. High Tide or Low Tide (with Ben Harper)
5. Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain (Willie Nelson, Johnson & Ben Harper)
6. I Shall Be Released (with Eddie Vedder, Zach Gill & Friends)