It was compiled by Annie Patterson and Peter Blood and released in 2016 by Hal Leonard Books.

Music experts weighed in on particular genres including Mary Flower (for blues), John Roberts (for English traditional songs), Joe Offer (a moderator of the Mudcat Café), and Johanna Halbeisen (curator of the New Song Library).

[citation needed] As an aid to learning the melodies in the book, links to YouTube recordings of all 1200 songs in Rise Again can be found on Patterson and Blood's website.

As in Rise Up Singing, chords are written out under the first verse, the chorus and any other section of the song (i.e. bridge).

Rise Again includes three indices - by recording artist, by culture and special genres, and by title.