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The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, its centerpiece is the three-part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the span of just 40 songs, Birthright offers an expansive overview of American Black roots music ? from old-time banjo and traditional jazz to Mississippi hill country blues ? demonstrating the pervasive influence of these styles on popular culture from country to hip hop. This rollicking ride through the joyful landscape of African American musical invention includes essays from musician/scholars Dom Flemons and Corey Harris.
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