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V.A. - Let Freedom Sing: The Music Of The Civil Rights Movement (2009)

Culling through 60 years of recorded music with roots that go even deeper, Time Life has created an emotionally powerful anthology that demonstrates no art form has done a better job of chronicling and conveying the African American experience than music. The three-CD set opens with “Go Down Moses,” a spiritual that was first recorded in 1914 by the Tuskegee Institute Singers. The version here is performed a capella by the gospel group known as The Southern Sons in 1941. The obvious parallels between the plight of the Israelites in Egypt and the unequal status of African Americans demonstrates why the Christian faith has resonated so strongly in their community. The song opens and closes with very somber vocals, contrasted against the middle section sung in an upbeat doo-wop style that reflects the jubilation faith can bring. There’s no change of moods or tempo when Billie Holiday delivers the gut-wrenching “Strange Fruit” from 1939, the oldest recording in the set. This haunting piece about lynching is just as powerful as when poet Lewis Allan wrote it. Segregation and Jim Crow laws are dealt with in Josh White’s “Uncle Sam Says,” where inexplicably men who risked their lives for this country were treated as second-class citizens by the military, and Brownie McGhee’s cover of Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown, and White” with the refrain “if your white, you’re all right/ if you’re brown, stick around/ if you’re black, oh brother, get back, get back, get back.” The latter was taken from one of the few remaining copies available, but the audible scratch and hiss is acceptable knowing the song’s inclusion ensures it will be preserved. When an artist of Nat “King” Cole’s stature and acceptance in the White mainstream still had to point out “We Are Americans Too” in 1956, the issues were far being resolved. It wasn’t just those who suffered from injustice that were aware of it and wanted it stopped. Ervin Drake wrote how there were “No Restricted Signs” in Heaven, performed by The Golden Gate Quartet. Although originally written in support of eleven Communist Party leaders convicted under the 1940 Smith Act, The Weavers’ “The Hammer Song (If I Had A Hammer)” the context of the song changed when Peter, Paul & Mary and Trini Lopez covered it. The children and young adults of the ‘60s decided “love between all of my brothers” included all races.
MULTIUPLOAD

DISC 1:
01. Go Down Moses (The Southern Sons)
02. Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
03. Uncle Sam Says (Josh White)
04. No Restricted Signs (The Golden Gate Quartet)
05. Black, Brown, and White (Brownie McGhee)
06. The Hammer Song (If I Had A Hammer) (The Weavers)
07. The Death Of Emmet Till, Parts 1&2 (The Ramparts)
08. When Do I Get To Be Called A Man? (Big Bill Broonzy)
09. The Alabama Bus (Brother Will Hairston (Hurrican Of The Motor City)
10. We Are Americans Too (Nat 'King' Cole)
11. Why (Am I Treated So Bad)? (The Staple Singers)
12. I Shall Not Be Moved (The Harmonizing Four)
13. Oh Freedom (Harry Belafonte with the Belafonte Folk Singers)
14. Ride On, Red, Ride On (Louisiana Red)
15. Mississippi Goddam (Nina Simone)
16. Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan)
17. We Shall Overcome (Mahalia Jackson)
18. Too Many Martyrs (Phil Ochs Jackson)
19. Alabama Blues (J.B. Lenoir)
20. Our Freedom Song (The Jubilee Hummingbirds)
21. A Change Is Gonna Come (Otis Redding)

DISC 2:
01. Forty Acres and a Mule (Oscar Brown Jr.)
02. People Get Ready (The Impressions)
03. Nobody Can Turn Me Around (The Mighty Clouds Of Joy)
04. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Solomon Burke)
05. Respect (Aretha Franklin)
06. The Motor City Is Burning (John Lee Hooker)
07. Cryin' In The Streets, Part 1 (George Perkins & The Silver Stars)
08. Abraham, Martin and John (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)
09. The Prayer (Ray Scott)
10. Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud, Part 1 (James Brown)
11. And Black Is Beautiful (Nickie Lee)
12. Sock It To 'Em, Soul Brother (Bill Moss)
13. Why I Sing The Blues, Part 1 (B.B. King)
14. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself), Part 1 (James Brown)
15. Stand! (Sly & The Family Stone)
16. Message From A Black Man (The Temptations)
17. Is It Because I'm Black (Sly Johnson)
18. I Was Born Blue (Swamp Dogg)
19. Yes, We Can, Part 1 (Lee Dorsey)
20. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue (Curtis Mayfield)
21. Young, Gifted, and Black (Bob & Marcia)

DISC 3:
01. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gill Scott-Heron)
02. (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People (The Chi-Lites)
03. Smiling Faces Sometimes (The Undisputed Truth)
04. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Marvin Gaye)
05. Hercules (Aaron Neville)
06. Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
07. Fight The Power, Part 1 (The Isley Brothers)
08. Give The People What They Want (The O'Jays)
09. Black Is Black (Jungle Brothers)
10. Sister Rosa (The Neville Brothers)
11. The Pride (Chuck D)
12. Unity (Sounds Of Blackness)
13. None Of Us Are Free (Solomon Burke)
14. Eyes On The Prize (The Sojourners)
15. Down In Mississippi (Mavis Staples)
16. Free At Last (The Blind Boys Of Alabama)