The latest album by Minneapolis indie-folker Mason Jennings, "In the Ever," doesn't hit stores until Tuesday, but one of its songs has already become a live staple for both Jennings and his tour partner and new record-label boss, Jack Johnson. It's called "I Love You and Buddha Too," and it might be the most simplistic song to try to save the world since "Give Peace a Chance." Sung to a nursery-rhyme melodic pattern, it makes a mature call for religious tolerance through such childlike lines as, "Why do some people say/That there is just one way/To love you God and come to you/We are all a part of you." The song is as irrefutable as the message. There's a YouTube video of Johnson singing it solo and another of him and Jennings performing it at Coachella. Download the original Tuesday.
CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER
