...Twenty-Five...
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Rykodisc
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$16.98 |
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DVD Details:
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- Format: Enhanced
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- Studio: Rykodisc
- Theatrical Release Date: Dec 31, 1969
- DVD Release Date: Oct 13, 1998
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- ASIN: B00000DCWJ
- UPC: 014431045127
- Sales Rank: 61616
Tracks:
1: We Are the Ones - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jordan, June
2: Chant - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Traditional
3: Battered Earth - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Lanchester, Michell
4: Motherless Chil' - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Traditional
5: Redemption Song - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Marley, Bob
6: Greed - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Reagon, Bernice Joh
7: Sound-Bite from Beijing - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Barnwell, Ysaye M.
8: Sometime - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Reagon, Bernice Joh
9: Run - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Casel, Nitanju Bola
10: Anybody Here - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Reagon, Bernice Joh
11: Forever Love - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Kahlil, Aisha
12: I Was Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Dorsey, Thomas A.
13: Hope - Sweet Honey in the Rock, Barnwell, Ysaye M.
Editorial Review from Amazon.com:
In their first 25 years, 22 different women sang in Sweet Honey in the Rock. That floating membership bespeaks not artistic turmoil, but the vitality of the band's communal, participatory democracy. No one singer dominates; the individual nuances of the five voices are preserved within the whole. The shape and sound of Sweet Honey's music--a daring survey of gospel, jazz, and African chanting--is itself political, but the group is still anchored by founder Bernice Johnson Reagon's vibrato-rich baritone, whether in her bold leads or doo-wop harmonies. To celebrate their silver anniversary, the group presents 13 new songs, mostly sung a cappella save some African drumming and tambourine, and focusing on original compositions with messages as intense as anything they've recorded. The most successful pieces, however, transcend the hectoring tone of songs such as "Greed" and "Run." And the biggest surprise comes in their doo-wop arrangement of Thomas A. Dorsey's "Standing By the Bedside of a Neighbor," in which the spiritual and the political merge seamlessly. i--Roy Kasten/i
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