Various Artists - Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium [2CD]
Various Artists - Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium [2CD]
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In the span of just 40 songs, Birthright offers an expansive overview of American Black roots music, from old-time banjo, to traditional jazz, to Mississippi hill country blues, demonstrating the pervasive influence of these styles on popular culture, from country to hip hop. This rollicking ride through the joyful landscape of African-American musical invention includes essays from musician/scholars Dom Flemons and Corey Harris, as well as an essay and track notes by co-producer Ted Olson.
Tracklist:
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Bourbon Street Parade
- Corey Harris and Shardé Thomas - Station Blues
- Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
- Carolina Chocolate Drops, featuring Joe Thompson - Georgie Buck*
- Ranky Tanky - Ranky Tanky
- Etta Baker - One Dime Blues
- Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot - Eunice Two Step
- Lightnin’ Hopkins - Automobile Blues
- Bennie Richardson - Grizzly Bear
- The Staple Singers - Motherless Children
- Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Blues Before Sunrise
- Dink Roberts - Fox Chase
- Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong - Sweet Georgia Brown
- Golden Eagles - Little Liza Jane
- Clifton Chenier - Ay-Tete Fee
- Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- George Lewis Quartet - Weary Blues
- Bessie Jones - Yonder Come Day
- Joseph Spence - We Will Understand It Better By and By
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Best of All
- Cedric Burnside - Step In
- Amythyst Kiah - Pretty Polly
- Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden - St. Louis Blues
- Leyla McCalla - Money Is King
- Dom Flemons - Polly Put the Kettle On
- Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ - Diving Duck Blues
- Boozoo Chavis - Crying Blues
- Campbell Brothers - Morning Train
- John Lee Hooker - When I Lay My Burden Down
- Lesley Riddle - Titanic
- Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
- Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
- Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
- Odetta - Special Delivery Blues
- John Jackson - Step It Up and Go
- Tuts Washington - Arkansas Blues
- Rev. Gary Davis - Lo, I Will Be With You Always
- Inmate named Peter - Ups on the Farm
- Cephas & Wiggins – John Henry
- Sweet Honey in the Rock – Study War No More
UPC: 888072424869
Label: Craft Recordings
Release Date: 2.17.23
Format: CD
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