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On this page you can listen to song-snippets of the album:
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| Looking back. Tony Jo Henry is lead from her cell to the electric chair. She isn't afraid. Instead she has reached a strange sense of understanding. |
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| We start in the Lousiana's
most famous city. The door through which the rest of the world views the state. Everyone knows the colourful city with the zest for life, that portrays that lives out the American Dream like no other city. |
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| The flip side of the country. Poverty, racism and hopelessness put their stamp on life out here in the country. We still have the Klu Kluxx Klan. The only way out from this madness is death. |
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| Annie, as Toni Jo is
really called, lead a pretty solitary life after her mother's death, despite having brothers and sisters. In this song the six year old is watched by a neighbour while playing in the garden. But the neighbour doesn't act on what she sees... |
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| Toni Jo is repeatedly beated and raped by her father. He simply takes for himself whatever he wants. He's a man with a broken life, who takes out his rage on those who can defend themselves the least. Toni Jo's only way out is to run away. |
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| At the age of 13 Toni Jo works as a prostitute. Brutalised and left emotionless she disregards the customers with empty promises as she does the Deputy who wants to help her. As a result of everything that she is subjected to she feels detached from life and people. |
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| Cowboy Henry makes his
appearance. He is the only one who can enchant Toni Jo, the only one who can open her heart and bring her back into the world. Cowboy Henry is the first and only person that Toni Jo has ever trusted. |
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| Toni Jo remembers her mother and how much she loved her. She feels the same with Cowboy Henry. And suddenly she knows that she is in love with him and that she is able to trust again. |
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| Toni Jo and Cowboy get married and spend their honeymoon in California. It ist the happiest time in Toni Jo's life and more than everything she has ever wished for. |
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| In a quarrel Cowboy has killed a man and Toni Jo is beside herself with shock. How could her hero and saviour do this? But she loves him unconditionally and he is everything that she has. So she stands by him. |
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| Toni Jo is once again
alone and rejected. She has killed a man and there is nobody who she can turn to. The only thing she is able to feel is indifference. |
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| The press can't get enough of the case of the "beautiful murderess". In the papers she is as good as guilty. Nobody looks for facts or reasons, just for a good story, regardless of whether it's right or wrong, true or false, regardless of what gets destroyed in the process. It's not about a real human being. It's about greed. |
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| Toni Jo is in jail and has
come to terms with her world and her fate. A reporter who is supposed to interview her sees her as a very untypical for a prisoner sentenced to death. She knows she is guilty, but nevertheless thinks her imminent death is "a waste". |
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| Toni Jo and Cowboy have their last phone call together. Her death is unavoidable and her husband says that he will try and live for her, and lead a better life than she was able to. |
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| The circle closes in. Toni Jo's final steps from the cell to the electric chair. Her life and her crime flash by in front of her. |
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