the Song starts with just a simple clapping and a drum comp, then will the song: ”Mama’s crying long/And she can’t get up/Mama’s hands are shaking/And she can’t get up”. There begins an account of how a black slave gets raped by a foreman, and how she then kills him. It ends with her being lynchad at the same time as her own son looking on. All of this on icy two minutes.
fraction of it shattering, dramatic stuff that the album ”Songs of our native daghters” (Smithsonian/Border) bågnar of. The group behind the album, Our Native Daughters, is a kind of african-american folk supergroup, who have teamed up for this album.
Rhiannon Giddens, with Layla McCalla, Allison Russell, and Amythyst Kiah is four accomplished, versatile instrumentalists and singers. The initiator and the most renowned is Giddens, both as a solo artist and with rootsbandet Carolina Chocolate Drops. They are posing with a banjo on the cover, as a kind of marker. For those who believe that it is only an instrument of white, male hillbilles.
In the disc’s booklet writes Giddens on racism and sexism in the united states. And continues: ”At the point of intersection between them is the african-american woman.” This album is a fifty-two-minute-long anthem for her.
arkivletande and dokumentläsande behind. Here is to a long literature list. No doubt that this project is driven by purely academic zeal combined with political anger, not to say fury. The album echoes of both the civil rights movement as #metoo and Black Lives Matter.
There is a risk that this music could be torn during exposure and the density of information. Instead, the group with a gentle hand format thirteen modern folk songs. The knobs way up of an astonishing ease. Here is the attention to detail everything. For example, in a purely sublime cover of Bob Marley’s ”Slave driver.” Amidst the songs about slavery and racism are almost as many that are filled with warmth, joy and hope.
It is perhaps the most remarkable aspect of all.
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