Our Native Daughters - Mama's Cryin' Long by Smithsonian Folkways published on 2018-11-28T18:50:30Z AVAILABLE 2/22/2019: https://folkways.si.edu/songs-of-our-native-daughters Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor-sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics. Note: LP versions omit the track "Better Git Yer Learnin." “An artistic mission to supplant the portrayals of slavery as an abstract, ancient sin with the imaginative, immersive contemplation of its individual human impact and aftermath" - NPR “A crucial pronouncement in folk music” – Rolling Stone Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter Comment by Guin Bishop right on! you tell it! 2019-08-29T22:23:56Z Comment by The Slow Music Movement Occassionally an LP comes along with lyrics so deep that it makes you question the banality & superficiality of most other music. Our Native Daughters - consisting of four black, female banjo players & consequently standing at the intersection of racism & sexism is one of those albums. Don't be deterred by the weighty subject matter as this is an LP that is an inspirational, head lifting, shoulder straightening, smile between the tears, joy. Well done to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings for facilitating this project. 2019-05-04T09:44:17Z
