Artist: Our Native Daughters

Title: Songs Of Our Native Daughters

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2019

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

UPC: 093074023228

Genre: Folk

Album Tracks

1. Black Myself
2. Moon Meets the Sun
3. Barbados
4. Quasheba, Quasheba
5. I Knew I Could Fly
6. Polly Ann's Hammer
7. Mama's Cryin' Long
8. Slave Driver
9. Better Git Yer Learnin'
10. Lavi Difisil
11. Blood and Bones
12. Music and Joy
13. You're Not Alone

Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters - written and sung in various combinations - is inspired by New World slave narratives, discrimination and how it has shaped our American experience, as well as musicians such as Haitian troubadour Althiery Dorval and Mississippi Hill Country string player Sid Hemphill, and more.