Singer-songwriter Steve Vaus will be featured on Geoff Metcalf’s Internet talk show today at 5:34 p.m. Pacific.
His inspirational patriotic anthem, “There Is an Eagle,” written days after the terrorist attack on America, has climbed as high as No. 3 on the MP3.com country charts out of more than 1 million songs on the site, including some by mega-stars such as Martina McBride, Sugar Ray, Faith Hill, Kenny Rogers and Alicia Keys.
Vaus’ achievement was reached without the benefit of a recording contract and industry publicity.
Following a story in WorldNetDaily, “There Is an Eagle” has been downloaded by tens of thousands of people and continues to soar on the country charts.
Vaus is encouraging people to download it and tape it if they like. His goal is not money, but bringing some comfort and inspiration to the American people in the wake of the terrorist strikes.
“I had a vision – that’s the only way to describe it – of an eagle soaring above the rubble in New York City,” Vaus said. “And in my mind it was the same eagle that has soared over every battlefield America has ever fought for. And along with the eagle, I saw our flag.”
In 1992, Vaus signed a recording contract with RCA. The resulting CD was called “We Must Take America Back,” and the title track instantly struck a chord with Americans starved for entertainment that spoke to them, touched their hearts and reinforced their core values.
Although the song climbed the charts in some markets — many radio stations found it was the most requested song in their inventory — after a few complaints from some big-city radio stations about the patriotic nature of the song, the company decided to pull the CD off the market.
Now, Vaus, who has been without a record contract since his “We Must Take America Back” days, is aiming to bypass the music industry’s normal release track and get this song played on radio stations nationwide in the next few days by raising the production and distribution money independently. He’s also not selling the song, only his extensive collection of earlier CDs.
“I want this song to be more than a poignant moment just for now,” he says. “I want it to help us remember all that we have ever fought for, and how we pull together at times such as this – truly one nation under God, indivisible.”
You can hear the song and read the lyrics on Vaus’ website.
Metcalf’s live daily program can be heard on WorldNetDaily’s streaming page — TalkNetDaily — from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific time (7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern).
