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Related Links:
Scar; Album
Don't Tell Me; Single
 
Releasedate:
USA: August 6, 1996
Tracklist:
01. Kick My Ass / Garbage ---
02. Sponge / R.E.M. ---
03. Gravity Of The Situation / Nanci Griffith and... ---
04. When I Ran Off & Left Her / Soul Asylum ---
05. Dodge / Dog's Eye View ---
06. Supernatural / LIVE ---
07. Sad Peter Pan / The Smashing Pumpkins and... ---
08. West Of Rome / Sparklehorse ---
09. Guilty By Association / Joe Henry & Madonna Lyrics
10. Panic Pure / Kristin Hersh ---
11. Withering / Cracker ---
12. Free Of Hope / Indigo Girls ---
13. Florida / Mary Margaret O'Hara ---
14. What We Lose / Judybats ---
15. I Don't Want To Be A Soldier / Ride ---
16. God Is Good / Vic Chesnutt and Victoria Williams ---
Credits:
'Guilty By Association' written by: Vic Chesnutt
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by: Patrick McCarthy and Joe Henry
Performed by: Joe Henry and Madonna
Interesting Facts:
'Guilty By Association' is one of the few duets Madonna has recorded during her career. Her duet-partner is Joe Henry, her brother-in-law [he is married to Madonna's sister Melanie].

This exclusive track is only available on the 'Sweet Relief II: Gravity Of The Situation' sampler which is a charity album to help musicians pay for medical treatment and medically-related expenses.
Here's what Joe Henry himself had to say about the track:

"I didn't have a clue what this song was about when I first heard it. Not that it mattered; it was slow and dreamy and had the word 'sharpies' in it, which is what I look for in a song. Only later was it suggested to me that it might be about the constant albatross of someone else's celebrity (a subject I think I'd read something about in one of our popular magazines). Fair enough, I sent Vic a postcard with a picture of Jack Dempsey on the front, asking to be involved with this project and promising to provide my own albatross for the occasion. To that end, I invited my sister-in-law Madonna to sing with me, and she loved the song on first listen. Her favorite word was 'loonies' and she came straight from testifying against one at the LA County Courthouse to sing about them. And she does so, I think, with a tone that expresses the most tender revenge (who says she's not the voice of our generation?). Anyway... Beyond its public campaign and plashy patrons, Sweet Relief is the simplest and most sensible of charities. and Vic Chesnutt - make no mistake - is a star, with or without any qualifying footnotes. Long may he wave."

This isn't the only time Madonna and Joe Henry have worked together: Joe is also the co-writer of Don't Tell Me from Madonna's 2000 album Music. Joe Henry released his own version of the song, simply called 'Stop', in 2001 on his album Scar.

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