Rock the Vote logins will realize Web users a song
Related Content
Complete 2008 election coverage
Sheryl Crow wants your vote -- and figures she can catch it for a song.
The Grammy-winning isaac Merrit Singer is oblation a release download of her politically charged tune "Gasoline" to anyone wHO logs onto the Rock the Vote Web site or anyone on the group's mailing list.
And the first 50,000 people who register three friends to voter turnout will start out a disengage digital transcript of her album "Detours."
"I hope people wake up and emotionally engage in issues," Crow said in a telephony interview during a visit to Los Angeles.
Crow's game show is a kickoff to Rock the Vote's elector registration drive, said the organization's executive director Heather Smith.
Crow, 46, was one of the founding artists of Rock the Vote 18 age ago. She said the "Detours" album fits dead into the group's cause since the lyrics partake on topics such as adoption, breast cancer, the war in Iraq, the environment and Hurricane Katrina.
"It's about the issues that everyone's talking about, but there's a lot of hope," Crow said. "At this moment in my life, written material about anything else would be uninteresting and inconceivable because I feel such urgency."
Rock the Vote aims to file 2 gazillion young people to balloting by November -- the largest early days voter drive in history by three times, Smith said. Anyone who recruits three people to right to vote will ingest to log onto the Rock the Vote Web site and go through a verification process in front receiving Crow's album, Smith said.
