Selections 1976-88 (1997) ( )

Product Summary Label: Flying Fish UPC: 00018964066727 Release Date: 8/12/1997 Buy.com Sku: 60351736 Item#: MKPDS5 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Ella's Song ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 2. Wade In The Water ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 3. Denko ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 4. On Children ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 5. Echo ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 6. Joan Little ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 7. Beatitudes ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 8. Peace ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 9. Sitting On Top Of The World ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 10. More Than A Paycheck ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 11. Crying For Freedom In South Africa ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 12. They Are All Falling Around Me ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 13. Mae Frances ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 14. I'm Gon' Stand!!! ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 15. Feel Something Drawing Me On ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 16. In The Upper Room ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 17. Seven Principles ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Testimony ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 2. Oughta Be A Woman ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 3. Fannie Lou Hamer ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 4. Meyango ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 5. Run Mourner Run ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 6. As Long As I Have Breath In My Body - (previously unreleased) ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 7. No Images ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 8. Sometime ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 9. Gift Of Love, The ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 10. Biko ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 11. My Way ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 12. State of Emergency ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 13. Cape Fear River Chant - (previously unreleased) ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 14. Rivers Of Babylon ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 15. Stranger Blues ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 16. Oh Death ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock 17. Breaths ~ Sweet Honey In The Rock   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Sweet Honey In The Rock includes: Bernice Johnson Reagon, Carol Lynn Maillard, Evelyn Maria Harris, Louise Robinson, Patricia Johnson McQueen, Yasmeen, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Shirley Childress Johnson, Aisha Kahlil, Nitanju Bolade Casel. Compilation producer: Bernice Johnson Reagon. Audio Remixers: Jim Robeson; Bob Dawson. Liner Note Authors: Shirley Childress Johnson ; Evelyn Harris; Aisha Kahlil; Yasmeen; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Nitanju Bolade Casel. Photographer: Oliver Nophlin. Translator: Walter Lowenfel. Arrangers: Aisha Kahlil; Sweet Honey in the Rock; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Nitanju Bolade Casel. This is a 34-track double-CD compilation drawn from Sweet Honey in the Rock's first eight albums, covering their 13-year, seven-album tenure at Flying Fish Records, plus one album recorded for Redwood Records. The song choices and non-chronological sequencing highlight the group's consistently impressive vocal interaction during a time when nine different singers made up a quartet or quintet (not counting sign language interpreter Shirley Childress Johnson, who joined in 1980), the only constant member being founder Bernice Johnson Reagon. Employing influences including folk, R&B, and even reggae, musically Sweet Honey remains primarily a gospel group; in fact, in their impassioned multiple leads, they often sound like a pocket gospel choir. Though founded in the 1970s, Sweet Honey has its roots in the 1960s, specifically Reagon's earlier group, the Freedom Singers, and though they touch on feminist concerns and such topical issues of the '80s as apartheid, the political material grows out of the civil rights movement and the labor movement that preceded it, their imagery drawn equally from Biblical and left-wing terminology. Much of their material is original and much is written by Reagon, but they also include traditional folk songs such as "Wade in the Water" and traditional African songs, and there are lyrics adapted from such sources as the Bible and Kahlil Gibran. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks. While inevitably fans may quibble with some of the omissions from Selections, its two-plus hours provide a comprehensive view of Sweet Honey's early work. ~ William Ruhlmann   Artist Overview Since this female a cappella collective formed in Washington, D.C. in 1973, it has performed a kaleidoscopic array of music styles, from Liberian religious music to Woody Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie covers. It has also become a byword for social and political activism, participating in benefits for AIDS and the homeless, as well as contributing its considerable musical expertise to education programs focusing on black music. Its leader, Bernice Johnson-Reagon, is the mother of 21st-century singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon. Artist Influences Almanac Singers | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Clara Ward Singers | Mahalia Jackson | Miriam Makeba | Odetta | Pete Seeger | Shirley Caesar | Woody Guthrie Artist Contemporaries Christine Lavin | Gaither Vocal Band | James Cleveland | Joan Armatrading | Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens | Mickey Hart | Roberta Flack | Take 6 | The Holmes Brothers | The Winans Artist Followers Erykah Badu | Indigo Girls | Toshi Reagon | Tracy Chapman | Ulali   Compilation Appearances Child's Celebration Of Song Songs Of The Civil War Turn Of The Decade-Ben & Jerry Freedom Is A Constant Lullaby Collection Child's Celebration Of Folk Music Wade In The Water Songs Of Pete Seeger Child's Celebration Of The Wor Roots Music-An American Journey This Land Is Your Land Respond 2 American Lullaby Shout Sister Shout Tribute To Sister (Bonus Tracks) Cellabration Mflp's 20th Anniversary Collection Mflp's 20th Anniversary Lullaby Collection / Freedom:earthbeat Records Special 20t I HEARD IT ON NPR: ONE WORLD MANY VOICES / VA Jack's Big Music Show Season One Give Us Your Poor Lift Every Voice Honoring The African   Technical Info Release Date : 08/05/1997 Original Release Date : 1997 Catalog ID : 667 Label : Flying Fish Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 132m : 21s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00018964066727    Product Image