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  • Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium - 1
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Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium

£26.99

Released: 17th February 2023. 'Birthright' offers tracks by iconic, little-known, and even forgotten musicians. While artists such as blues guitarist John Lee Hooker and gospel greats The Staple Singers are genre standard bearers, musicians such as jazz clarinettist George Lewis and 'one man band' Jesse Fuller are perhaps remembered only by afficionados. The artists represented on the set range from pioneers such as zydeco accordionists Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis, right up to contemporary artists such as Mississippi hill country guitarist Cedric Burnside and the Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla.

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    • Details

      Released:
      17th February 2023
      Category:
      Blues
      Format:
      CD Album
      Barcode:
      888072424869

    • Description

      'Birthright' offers tracks by iconic, little-known, and even forgotten musicians. While artists such as blues guitarist John Lee Hooker and gospel greats The Staple Singers are genre standard bearers, musicians such as jazz clarinettist George Lewis and 'one man band' Jesse Fuller are perhaps remembered only by afficionados. The artists represented on the set range from pioneers such as zydeco accordionists Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis, right up to contemporary artists such as Mississippi hill country guitarist Cedric Burnside and the Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla.

    • Track listing

      Disc 1

      Track name
      Artist
      1.Preservation Hall Jazz Band
      Bourbon Street Parade
      2.Station Blues
      Corey Harris and Sharde Thomas
      3.61 Highway
      Mississippi Fred McDowell
      4.Georgie Buck (Feat. Joe Thompson)
      Carolina Chocolate Drops
      5.Ranky Tanky
      Ranky Tanky
      6.One Dime Blues
      Etta Baker
      7.Eunice Two Step
      Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot
      8.Automobile Blues
      Lightnin' Hopkins
      9.Grizzly Bear
      Bennie Richardson
      10.Motherless Children
      The Staple Singers
      11.Blues Before Sunrise
      Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
      12.Fox Chase
      Dink Roberts
      13.Sweet Georgia Brown
      Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
      14.Little Liza Jane
      Golden Eagles
      15.Ay-tete Fee
      Clifton Chenier
      16.Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
      Skip James
      17.Weary Blues
      George Lewis Quartet
      18.Yonder Come Day
      Bessie Jones
      19.We Will Understand It Better By and By
      Joseph Spence
      20.Best of All
      The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

      Disc 2

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

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