DESCRIPTION:
Looking For America, recorded by Mark Wills at Legends Studio (Nashville) and is on the Big Red Records label. This is an unofficial music video montage using photo images selected by our team at Spiralheart. The song was written by Jeremy Bussey, Bernie Nelson and Philip Douglas (see Lyrics below).

Looking For America is available on iTunes in three versions (two with Mark's great vocals and one instrumental). We chose the Americana version for this slide show. Download at:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/looking-for-america/id396003022
(on Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/Looking-For-America/dp/B0045MRS3Q

Wills is expected to come out with an official video in 2011. More info can be found at the song website:
http://lookingforamerica.us/

Mark Wills is a participant in Musicians On Call, which brings live music to wounded soldiers. His experience meeting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital can be found here:
(see http://www.tennessean.com/article/20101214/NEWS01/12140346/Country-singer-Mark-Wills-plays-for-wounded-soldiers-one-at-a-time)
He is also deeply involved in the Taser Foundation (www.taserfoundation.org), an organization that raises awareness and funds for the families of police officers killed in the line of duty.

The song "Looking For America" has been sponsored by Diamond Gusset Jeans in support of Operation Troop Aid (http://gusset.com/america/). http://lookingforamerica.us/node/10

About Mark Wills:
His songs speak for themselves. Of his albums, Wish You Were Here is the best-selling, with a platinum certification from the RIAA. This album's title track became his first Number One country hit in 1999, with the late 2002-early 2003 "19 Somethin'" becoming his second and final chart-topper. Besides these, six more of his singles have reached Top Ten on the charts: debut single "Jacob's Ladder", "Places I've Never Been", "I Do (Cherish You)", "Don't Laugh at Me", "She's in Love" and a cover version of Brian McKnight's "Back at One". In 1998 Mark was Top New Male Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

About the songwriters: Bussey, Nelson, Douglas
Singer/Songwriter Jeremy Bussey moved to Nashville from Alabama. He has collaborated with several top songwriters such as Bernie Nelson (over 24 million records with Randy Travis, Wynonna, Conway Twitty, Colin Raye, Ricky Van Shelton, Chris Ledoux, etc) and Philip Douglas (Ricky Van Shelton, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Billy Ray Cyrus). The song was released by Mitzi Matlock and Music/MM Publishing, with producer Phil O'Donnell and Dan Frizell at Legends Studio,
see: http://lookingforamerica.us/node/8


Photos used for this video are lo-res (80k-160k). Special thanks to http://www.FreeDigitalPhotos.net for allowing this type of use for their lo-res images. If you like any of these stunning images, you can pay for higher resolution versions. All very affordable. Bravo!

SPIRALHEART
The Spiralheart Team is promoting the medium of combining song and photos and looking to stage an arts festival in 2011 dedicated to this medium. Songs can evoke emotion and also strike a nerve. Looking For America does both. Team favorites include Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" Simon & Garfunkel "Look For America" Don Henley / Bruce Hornsby "The End Of The Innocence" and several from Dillon and of course tons more. It is not whether we agree or disagree with the message. It is the use of song and art to make us think and reevaluate our direction that is the key.


Looking For America (Lyrics)
written by Jeremy Bussey, Bernie Nelson, Philip Douglas

I'm chasing down a memory
Of the way that things used to be
Kids playing underneath an old street light
Knowing they were safe when they laid down at night
I'm looking for something I ain't seen in a while

I'm looking for a factory
Where a man can feed his family
Not worried about them moving it south
Closing the doors and shutting 'er down tomorrow
I'm looking for America

Chorus:
The land of the free and the home of the brave
Seems like I just woke up one day and it was gone, long gone
But I know in my heart it's still out there
Can somebody please tell me where
I'm looking for, America

I'm searching for an old church steeple
Where inside you'll find people
Who live their lives unashamed
And they ain't afraid to say God's name out loud
Yeah I'm looking for America

Repeat Chorus:

I'm out here looking for the truth
A few folks to wave the red, white and blue
Who still believe freedom isn't free
And I guess it's up to you and me to find it
Yeah we gotta find it
Cause we're looking for

Repeat Chorus: