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Vari-colored songs : a tribute to Langston Hughes / Leyla McCalla.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 24940
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author, honouree.
- Series:
- African American legacy recordings series
- African American legacy recordings
- Language:
- English
- Haitian French Creole
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Popular music--United States--2011-2020.
- Popular music.
- Blues (Music)--2011-2020.
- Blues (Music).
- Folk songs, Creole--Haiti.
- Folk songs, Creole.
- String band music.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Musical settings.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Haiti.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (44 min., 32 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Tribute to Langston Hughes
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English (principally) and Haitian Creole.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- audio file
- CD audio
- Contents:
- Heart of gold (3:00)
- When I can see the valley (2:10)
- Mèsi bondye (2:26)
- Girl (2:51)
- Kamèn sa w fè? (2:22)
- Too blue (2:28)
- Manman mwen (3:19)
- Song for a dark girl (2:49)
- As I grew older/Dreamer (3:50)
- Love again blues (2:39)
- Rose Marie (2:58)
- Latibonit (3:49)
- Search (3:20)
- Lonely house (3:27)
- Changing tide (3:04).
- Participant:
- Leyla McCalla, vocals, cello, tenor banjo ; with, variously: Tom Pryor, pedal steel guitar ; Luke Winslow King, guitar ; Cassidy Holden, bass ; Rhiannon Giddens, shaker, vocals ; Yah Supreme, spoken word ; Liz Hanley, violin ; Matt Rhody, fiddle ; Hubby Jenkins, guitar, bones ; Don Vappie, tenor banjo.
- Credits:
- Produced by Leyla McCalla and Joseph Dejarnette.
- Notes:
- Blues and popular songs, in part using texts by Langston Hughes, and arrangements of Haitian folk songs.
- Title from disc label.
- Recorded Studio 808a, Floyd, Virginia and Piety Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Program notes by Leyla McCalla and Jean-Pierre Bruneau with texts in English or Haitian Creole (27 pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: McCalla, Leyla, 1985- [Hillsborough, N.C.] : Music Maker Relief Foundation, [2014] Issue number: MMCD142
- OCLC:
- 1193040012
- Publisher Number:
- 093074024126
- SFW CD 40241 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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