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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