Summary: Songs 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...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SONCooder, Ry.
Contents: Suitcase in my hand -- Cat and mouse -- Strike! -- J. Edgar -- Footprints in the snow -- Sundown town -- Green dog -- Dying truck driver -- Christmas in Southgate -- Hank Williams -- Red cat till I die -- Three chords and the truth -- My name is Buddy -- One cat, one vote, one beer -- Cardboard avenue -- Farm girl -- There's a bright side somewhere.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2007