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Church, Eric Gaddy, K. R. Giddens, Rhiannon Hull, Sierra. Randall, Alice Toussaint, AllenGiddens, Rhiannon
Summary: "Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIDGiddens, Rhiannon
Contents: At the purchaser's option -- The angels laid him away -- Julie -- Birmingham Sunday -- Better get it right the first time -- We could fly -- Hey Bébé -- Come love come -- The love we almost had -- Baby boy -- Following the North star -- Freedom highway.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GIDGiddens, Rhiannon
Contents: Last kind words -- Don't let it trouble your mind -- Waterboy -- She's got you -- Up above my head -- Tomorrow is my turn -- Black is the color -- Round about the mountain -- Shake sugaree -- O love is teasin' -- Angel City.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GIDGiddens, Rhiannon
Contents: Calling me home -- Avalon -- Si dolce e'l tormento -- I shall not me moved -- Black as crow -- O death -- Niwel goes to town -- When I was in my prime -- Waterbound -- Bully for you -- Nenna nenna -- Amazing grace.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GIDGiddens, Rhiannon
Summary: "At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIDGiddens, Rhiannon
Contents: Too little, too late, too bad (3:44) -- You're the one (3:25) -- Yet to be / (feat. Jason Isbell) (3:40) -- Wrong kind of right (4:40) -- Another wasted life (4:48) -- You Louisiana man (4:06) -- If you don't know how sweet it is (3:01) -- Hen in the foxhouse (3:47) -- Who are you dreaming of (3:26) -- You put the sugar in my bowl (2:59) -- Way over yonder (3:12) -- Good ol' cider (0:45).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GIDSummary: Filmmaker Ken Burns invited some of country music's finest artists to gather at Ryman Auditorium to celebrate the launch of his PBS series Country Music. Burns curated an evening of selected highlights from the series combined with performances of the music's iconic songs by some of country's finest artists including Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC COUSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSChurch, Eric
Contents: Mr. Misunderstood -- Mistress named music -- Chattanooga Lucy -- Mixed drinks about feelings -- Knives of New Orleans -- Round here buzz -- Kill a word -- Holdin' my own -- Record year -- Three year old.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Nashville 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CHUToussaint, Allen
Contents: Delores' boyfriend / Allen Toussaint (3:35) -- Viper's drag / Thomas "Fats" Waller (3:18) -- Confessin' (that I love you) / Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds & Al Neiburg (2:52) -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans / Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd (3:15) -- Lotus blossom / Billy Strayhorn (4:20) -- Waltz for Debby / Bill Evans (3:17) -- Big chief / Earl Lang (2:15) -- Rocks in my bed / Duke Ellington (4:40) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TOUContents: Cajun love song (4:04) -- A heart needs a home (4:04) -- Waterloo sunset (3:54) -- Gabie's New Year's lament (4:32) -- Stolen car (4:42) -- Triste samedi = (A sad Saturday) ; A hurricane song (4:30) -- Time goes on, my love (4:44) -- Something's got a hold on me (3:12) -- Tin angel (3:33) -- Lord of the Reedy River (3:24) -- Who knows where the time goes (3:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK SAVContents: Down on the bottom (4:29) -- Married to my hack (1:57) -- Kansas City (4:04) -- Spanish Mary (5:31) -- Liberty Street (2:45) -- Nothing to it (3:32) -- Golden Tom - silver Judas (2:39) -- When I get my hands on you (3:10) -- Duncan and Jimmy (4:10) -- Florida key (3:19) -- Hidee hidee ho #11 (4:45) -- Lost on the river #12 (3:42) -- Stranger (4:22) -- Card shark (2:36) -- Quick like a flash...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NEWSummary: 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...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SONRandall, Alice
Summary: The companion to Alice Randall's book is a powerful compilation of Black female country artists rerecording the greatest songs of Alice's catalog.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL COUNTRY MYContents: disc 1: Killer diller blues / written by Minnie Lawlers (Alabama Shakes) (2:12) -- On the road again / written by J.B. Jones and Will Shade (Nas, vocals) (2:00) -- Candy man / written by Rev. Gary Davis (Blind Boy Paxton, vocals and guitar) (2:53) -- 2 fingers of whiskey / written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin (Elton John, vocals and piano ; Jack White, vocals and guitar) (2:52) -- The coo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lo-Max/Columbia 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC AMESummary: Fifty years after its release, one of the albums that Johnny Cash held close to his heart is celebrated with new interpretations by Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Gillian Welch, The Milk Carton Kids, and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Ten thousand voices (2:58) -- Gonna write me a letter (4:04) -- Wayfaring stranger (4:47) -- There is no other (2:26) -- Trees on the mountains (5:15) -- Pizzica di San Vito (2:07) -- Brown baby (5:08) -- Briggs' forró (4:04) -- Little Margaret (3:03) -- Black swan (4:18) -- I'm on my way (2:58) -- He will see you through (3:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK GIDGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8 GADHull, Sierra.
Contents: Stranded -- Compass -- Choices and changes -- Wings of the dawn -- Birthday -- Weighted mind -- Fallen man -- The in-between -- Lullaby -- Queen of hearts/Royal tea -- I'll be fine -- Black River.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2016