Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium - Birthright: a Black Roots Music Compendium / Var] - Music - CONCORD - 0888072424869 - February 17, 2023
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Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium

Birthright: a Black Roots Music Compendium / Var]

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Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium

Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium - 2xCD - In the span of just 40 songs, Birthright offers an expansive overview of American Black roots music - from old-time banjo and 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.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 2
Released February 17, 2023
EAN/UPC 0888072424869
Label CONCORD 7242486
Genre Folk
Dimensions 130 × 137 × 14 mm   ·   216 g

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Bourbon Street Parade
    2. Corey Harris - Station Blues
    3. Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Highway 61
    4. Carolina Chocolate Drops, Joe Thompson - Georgie Buck
    5. Ranky Tanky - Ranky Tanky
    6. Etta Baker - One-dime Blues
    7. Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Canray Fontenot - Eunice Two-ste
    8. Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins - Automobile Blues
    9. Benny Richardson - Grizzly Bear
    10. The Staple Singers - Motherless Children
    11. Sonny Terry, Brownie Mcghee - Blues Before Sunrise
    12. Dink Roberts - Fox Chase
    13. Martin, Bogan & the Armstrongs - Sweet Georgia Brown
    14. The Golden Eagles, Monk Boudreaux - Little Liza Jane
    15. Clifton Chenier and His Band - Ay-tete Fee
    16. Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
    17. George Lewis' Ragtime Band - 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
  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Cedric Burnside - Step in
    2. Amythyst Kiah - Pretty Polly
    3. Lonnie Johnson, Elmer Snowden - St. Louis Blues
    4. Leyla Mccalla - Money is King
    5. Dom Flemons - Polly Put the Kettle on
    6. Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo' - Diving Duck Blues
    7. Boozoo Chavis - Crying Blues
    8. Campbell Brothers - Morning Train
    9. John Lee Hooker - when I Lay My Burden Down
    10. Lesley Riddle - Titanic
    11. Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
    12. Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
    13. Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
    14. Odetta - Spoken Introduction: Special Delivery Blues
    15. John Jackson - Step It Up and Go
    16. Tuts Washington - Arkansas Blues
    17. Rev. Gary Davis - Lo, I Be with You Always
    18. Inmate Named Peter - Ups on the Farm
    19. Cephas & Wiggins - John Henry
    20. Sweet Honey in the Rock - Study War No More

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