Vari-Colored Songs : : a Tribute to Langston Hughes
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Blues and popular songs, in part using texts by Langston Hughes, and arrangements of Haitian folk songs.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Leyla McCalla and Jean-Pierre Bruneau with texts in English or Haitian Creole (27 pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.
Heart of gold (3:00) -- When I can see the valley (2:10) -- Mèsi bondye (2:26) -- Girl (2:51) -- Kamèn sa w fè? (2:22) -- Too blue (2:28) -- Manman mwen (3:19) -- Song for a dark girl (2:49) -- As I grew older/Dreamer (3:50) -- Love again blues (2:39) -- Rose Marie (2:58) -- Latibonit (3:49) -- Search (3:20) -- Lonely house (3:27) -- Changing tide (3:04).
Leyla McCalla, vocals, cello, tenor banjo ; with, variously: Tom Pryor, pedal steel guitar ; Luke Winslow King, guitar ; Cassidy Holden, bass ; Rhiannon Giddens, shaker, vocals ; Yah Supreme, spoken word ; Liz Hanley, violin ; Matt Rhody, fiddle ; Hubby Jenkins, guitar, bones ; Don Vappie, tenor banjo.
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SERIES
African American legacy recordings
PUBLISHED
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 1 audio disc (44 min., 32 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language: English
Format: CD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,
McCalla, Leyla, 1985-
Pryor, Tom,
Winslow-King, Luke,
Holden, Cassidy,
Giddens, Rhiannon, 1977-
Yah Supreme,
Hanley, Liz,
Rhody, Matt,
Jenkins, Hubby,
Vappie, Don, 1956-
Bruneau, Jean-Pierre,
SUBJECTS
Hughes, Langston, -- 1902-1967 -- Musical settings.
Popular music -- United States -- 2011-2020.
Folk songs, Creole -- Haiti.
Folk music.
String band music.
Folk songs.
Songs.
Popular music.
Musical settings.