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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:

  1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Bourbon Street Parade
  2. Corey Harris and Shardé Thomas - Station Blues
  3. Mississippi Fred McDowell - 61 Highway
  4. Carolina Chocolate Drops, featuring Joe Thompson - Georgie Buck*
  5. Ranky Tanky - Ranky Tanky
  6. Etta Baker - One Dime Blues
  7. Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot - Eunice Two Step
  8. Lightnin’ Hopkins - Automobile Blues
  9. Bennie Richardson - Grizzly Bear
  10. The Staple Singers - Motherless Children
  11. Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Blues Before Sunrise
  12. Dink Roberts - Fox Chase
  13. Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong - Sweet Georgia Brown
  14. Golden Eagles - Little Liza Jane
  15. Clifton Chenier - Ay-Tete Fee
  16. Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
  17. George Lewis Quartet - Weary Blues
  18. Bessie Jones - Yonder Come Day
  19. Joseph Spence - We Will Understand It Better By and By
  20. Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Best of All
  21. Cedric Burnside - Step In
  22. Amythyst Kiah - Pretty Polly
  23. Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden - St. Louis Blues
  24. Leyla McCalla - Money Is King
  25. Dom Flemons - Polly Put the Kettle On
  26. Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ - Diving Duck Blues
  27. Boozoo Chavis - Crying Blues
  28. Campbell Brothers - Morning Train
  29. John Lee Hooker - When I Lay My Burden Down
  30. Lesley Riddle - Titanic
  31. Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
  32. Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
  33. Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
  34. Odetta - Special Delivery Blues
  35. John Jackson - Step It Up and Go
  36. Tuts Washington - Arkansas Blues
  37. Rev. Gary Davis - Lo, I Will Be With You Always
  38. Inmate named Peter - Ups on the Farm
  39. Cephas & Wiggins – John Henry
  40. 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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