VA - Black Folk (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

 

CONTEMPORARY BLACK FOLK BY BLACK FOLK

VA - Black Folk (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.  Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960's. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music. (Wikipedia)

Black folk music can be traced back to the early 1900's through the guitar-based music of Elizabeth Cotten, whose self-taught finger-picking style provided an equally complex and tender backdrop for her soft vocals. It’s since become so steeped in the American artistic lexicon that you many not even notice how prevalent it is in modern music.  Most folk artists  of the 1960's to present ( both black and white) owe enourmous gratitude to black folk artists (in some cases, unknown black musicians) before them for moving forward the history of American folk music, from the slave spirituals to early field recordings, songs of the civil rights and feminist movements, story songs, gospel songs, protest songs, and more.

This compilation concentrates on Black Folk artists.  As usual this is a blend of old and new artists and presents songs recorded in the 1940's to present, and in some cases, with songs that were written well before the date of recording (ie, 1870's, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" also known as "In the Pines", "My Girl" and "Black Girl". It is so great to hear the new artists continuing the tradition of Black folk music, incorporating traditional sounds like acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin on their albums.  Enjoy!

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Track lists

CD1

01 Harry Belafonte Did You Hear About Jerry 2:57

02 Mississippi John Hurt My Creole Belle 1:51

03 Tracy Chapman All That You Have is Your Soul 5:14

04 Lightnin’ Hopkins Back to New Orleans 3:22

05 Archie Roach Angela 4:05

06 Nina Simone Beautiful Land 1:58

07 Sabine McCalla I Went to the Levee 3:17

08 Richie Havens Follow 6:24

09 Glenn Skuthorpe Something on My Mind 4:34

10 Joan Armatrading Woncha Come on Home 2:40

11 Elizabeth Cotten Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie 4:43

12 Scrapper Blackwell Little Boy Blue 3:07

13 Vance Gilbert Unfamiliar Moon 3:40

14 Leyla McCalla Little Sparrow 3:16

15 Tiddas Inside My Kitchen 3:27

16 Kev Carmody Cannot Buy My Soul 2:32

17 Dorris Henderson Wayfaring Stranger 6:36

18 Pigam Brothers Eulogy for a Black Man 4:42

19 Valerie June Long Lonely Road 3:56

20.0 Toshi Reagon Steal Away 3:33

20.1 Toshi Reagon & Bernice Johnson Reagon Your Country 2:12

CD2

21 Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train 2:46

22 Johnny Silvo and Diz Disley Black and Blue 4:00

23 Richie Havens God Bless the Child 6:19

24 Leadbelly Where Did You Sleep Last Night 3:02

25 Mississippi John Hurt Candy Man 2:56

26 Shelton Kotton Powe Jesus on the Main Line (Tell Him What You've Got) 3:00

27 Brownie McGhee One Thing for Sure 3:19

28 Harry Belafonte Grizzly Bear 3:32

29 Dom Flemons Steel Pony Blues 4:34

30 Sabine McCalla Rosalie #9 2:57

31 Ted Hawkins Bring it on Home to Me 3:22

32 Len Chandler To Be a Man 3:29

33 Taj Mahal Corinna 3:03

34 Reverend Gary Davis Death Don't Have No Mercy 4:43

35 Mereba Kinfolk 3:02

36 Keb' Mo' Henry 5:40

37 Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside 4:26

38 Xavier Rudd Comfortable in My Skin 3:13

39 Valerie June Workin' Woman Blues 3:10

40 Bernice Johnson Reagon Give Your Hands to Struggle 3:59

CD3

41 Odetta Masters of War 6:17

42 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Drink Muddy Water 2:57

43 Josh White House of the Rising Sun 3:01

44 Sister Rosetta Winn Do Lord, Remember Me 2:50

45 Nina Simone Turn! Turn! Turn! 3:38

46 Blind Willie Johnson John the Revelator 3:21

47 Sabine McCalla Tall Lonesome Cowboy 3:32

48 Ramparts The Death of Emmet Till, Parts 1 & 2 4:55

49 Tété A La Faveur De L'automne 3:43

50 Sweet Honey in the Rock Ella's Song 5:50

51 Sister Rosetta Tharpe Down By the Riverside 3:05

52 Valerie June Workin' Woman Blues 3:10

53 Amythyst Kiah Darlin Corey 4:16

54 Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner Special Rider Blues 6:03

55 Leon Bibb Rocks and Gravel 6:11

56 Jonny Silvo Ol Man Mose 2:58

57 Xavier Rudd Shelter 3:48

58 Labi Siffre Children of Children 6:34

59 Josephine Oniyama A Freak A 3:10

60 Reverend Gary Davis Samson and Delilah 3:40

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