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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelSfw, Smithsonian Folkways
UPC0093074023228
eBay Product ID (ePID)19046064340
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2019
GenreCountry
ArtistOur Native Daughters
Release TitleSongs of Our Native Daughters
Dimensions
Item Height0.32 in
Item Weight0.18 lb
Item Length5.66 in
Item Width4.89 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks13
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Black Myself 1.2 Moon Meets the Sun 1.3 Barbados 1.4 Quasheba, Quasheba 1.5 I Knew I Could Fly 1.6 Polly Ann's Hammer 1.7 Mama's Cryin' Long 1.8 Slave Driver 1.9 Better Git Yer Learnin' 1.10 Lavi Difisil 1.11 Blood and Bones 1.12 Music and Joy 1.13 You're Not Alone
Sub-GenreFolk
NotesSongs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters - written and sung in various combinations - is inspired by New World slave narratives, discrimination and how it has shaped our American experience, as well as musicians such as Haitian troubadour Althiery Dorval and Mississippi Hill Country string player Sid Hemphill, and more.
Excellent selection of singers, songs, and musicians. Rhiannon Giddens has an exceptional voice, meaningful lyrics to the songs that she writes. She has received a "Genius Award", i.e. a MacArthur Award, and demonstrates the deserved praise with her research to blend music genres, and rediscover neglected, but worthy past musicians and songs. I have since heard her at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops Orchestra, and purchase two more of her albums. You will not be disappointed.
the collaboration on this cd doesn't come often. stunning is inadequate. the sounds, the history, the culture, the inspiration comes through on each song. offering up justice, salvation, and a good kind of righteousness. excellence and then some. want more from these women.
This is album is great. All of the singers are wonderful. The artists are all musicians and singers with their own groups. This album is also timely and historical.