Sunday, July 26, 2020
VA - Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement (Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966) [1997] (2 x CD's + Booklet)
VOICES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
VA - Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement (Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966) [1997] (2 x CD's + Booklet)
This double-CD reissue documents a central aspect of the cultural environment of the Civil Rights Movement, acknowledging songs as the language that focused people's energy. These 43 tracks are a series of musical images, of a people in conversation about their determination to be free. Many of the songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches, where people from different life experiences, predominantly black, with a few white supporters, came together in a common struggle. These freedom songs draw from spirituals, gospel, rhythm and blues, football chants, blues and calypso forms. The enclosed booklet written by Bernice Johnson Reagon provides rare historic photographs along with the powerful story of African American musical culture and its role in the Civil Rights Movement. "The music of the spirit with the history of the flesh."(New York Daily News)
This highly sought-after collection includes rare recordings by Fannie Lou Hamer (Go Tell It on the Mountain), Betty Mae Fikes, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Willie Peacock and other activists. More than two hours of Blues, Gospel, Caltpso, etc. This 2CD collection of movement voices preserved from field performances is particulary outstanding not only in its quality but in its authenticity. The voices of the SNCC Freedom Singers and important movement figures, among them Mrs. Famie Lou Hamer, Holis Watkins, Sam Block, Bernice Johnson, Cordel Reagon, and many more, make this a collection to be prized and played again and again. This is an amazing collection of Civil Rights songs. It is like listening to history. This collection of music will bring back memories to the older generations and introduce younger people to voices from the past. (Amazon)
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Track lists
CD1
01 Freedom Singers Freedom Medley: Freedom Chant; Oh Freedom: This Little Light of Mine 1:57
02 Betty Fikes This Little Light of Mine 4:17
03 Betty Fikes If You Miss Me From the Back of the Bus 3:03
04 [Unknown] Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race 2:49
05 Willie Peacock Get on Board, Children 2:10
06 Willie Peacock Calypso Freedom 6:29
07 [Unknown] Freedom Now Chant 0:25
08 Hollis Watkins Oh Freedom 3:08
09 Amanda Bowens Perdew and Virginia Davis Ain' Scared of Nobody 1:50
10 [Unknown] Leaning on the Everlasting Arms 1:13
11 Rev. Lawrence Campbell Sermon 6:35
12 [Unknown] We Are Soldiers in the Army 3:24
13 Fannie Lou Hamer Go Tell it on the Mountain 3:03
14 Fannie Lou Hamer Wade in the Water 2:32
15 Willie Peacock Come Bah Yah 5:25
16 Fannie Lou Hamer Walk With Me, Lord 1:38
17 Sam Block Jesus on the Mainline, Tell Him What You Want 3:33
18 Sam Block Freedom Train 4:36
19 Mable Hillery Don't You Think It's About Time That We All Be Free 3:30
20 Carlton Reese We're Marching on to Freedom Land 2:31
21 [Unknown] We Shall Overcome 3:03
CD2
01 Freedom Singers We'll Never Turn Back 3:30
02 Freedom Singers We Shall Not Be Moved 2:11
03 Core Freedom Singers Certainly, Lord 2:05
04 Core Freedom Singers Get Your Rights, Jack 3:49
05 Freedom Singers Which Side Are You On? 1:57
06 Freedom Singers Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom 2:31
07 Bernice Johnson Reagon Been in the Storm So Long 3:54
08 Freedom Singers Dog, Dog 2:33
09 Integration Grooves The A & P Song 2:28
10 Freedom Singers Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly 2:15
11 Bertha Gober I Told Jesus 3:21
12 Alabama Christian Movement Choir 99 ½ Won't Do 2:28
13 Alabama Christian Movement Choir I'm on My Way 3:38
14 Cleo Kennedy City Called Heaven 9:15
15 Freedom Singers In the Mississippi River 3:38
16 Freedom Singers Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round 2:15
17 Jimmy Collier and the Movement Singers Will the Circle Be Unbroken 3:08
18 Freedom Singers Governor Wallace 2:36
19 Freedom Singers Ballad of Medgar Evers 4:32
20 Cordell Reagon Uncle Tom's Prayer 1:09
21 Freedom Singers Oginga Odinga 2:50
22 Freedom Singers We Shall Overcome 3:20
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Timely and needed (Still!). Bravo BB.
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Nice share. Tx man.
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DeleteIts really worth listening to.
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