Escondida

Yard Sale

when the last are gone
When there´s no more born
When the last word´s been said
Only winds are left
Back to a blank page again
Back to what we started
Cold bones reach out to bones 
Sketch themselves into a skeleton
Begin again
When we were growing
Just like smoke rising
Folding with meaning
Before disappearing
Wake us up from flat sheets
Sit us up Into a flickering screen
Press our face to a bubble of past lives
See ourselves on the other side
Begin again
Can you feel it
A flap of wings in your mind
stretching out your thoughts
Was only a temporary pause
Whispers narrow into words
Forming meaning as they fall/drop
One last breath reaches out
Circuit´s closed our eyes are open
begin again
when the last are gone
When there´s no more born
When the last word´s been said
Only winds are left

Begin Again

Metals

How Come You Never Go There

Music by Ry Cooder

Paris, Texas

Sascha

Amen

Mad Tom Of Bedlam

Old Fashioned Morphine

Black Stars

Bringing It Back Home

On That Morning

Acoustic Routes, Vol. 2 (Music from the Documentary)

First Light

The Flying Club Cup

Nantes

Even My Sure Things Fall Through

Crystal Frontier (Acoustic Version)

AVAILABLE 2/22/2019: https://folkways.si.edu/songs-of-our-native-daughters

Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor-sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics. Note: LP versions omit the track "Better Git Yer Learnin."

“An artistic mission to supplant the portrayals of slavery as an abstract, ancient sin with the imaginative, immersive contemplation of its individual human impact and aftermath" - NPR

“A crucial pronouncement in folk music” – Rolling Stone

Our Native Daughters - Quasheba, Quasheba

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Old Fashioned Morphine

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