FREEDOM ROAD
Aangemaakt op 11/06/2024Laatste aanpassing op 11/06/2024
Artiest: Josh White
Auteur: Emerson Harper/Langston Hughes
Label: Asch/Folkways
Jaar: 1944
De tekst van Langston Hughes (I'm Marching Down Freedom Road) roept Afro-Amerikaanse soldaten op de wapens op te nemen tegen nazi Duitsland. Joshs broer Bill zat toen in het leger. Heruit op Smithsonian/Folkways-cd Free And Equal Blues.
Covers:
- 2022:
Indra Rios-Moore [veranderde "gun" door "ballot" in de tekst, actueel sedert de Voting Rights Act uit '65 dreigde uitgehold te worden, de Amerikaanse Senaat de John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act uit '21 tegenhield en de GOP bezig was kiesdistricten in hun voordeel te hertekenen waar het hen uitkwam]
"Ought to be plain as the nose on your face/There's room in this land for every race/Some folks think that freedom just ain't right/Those are the people I want to fight". Josh White werd slachtoffer van de Un-American Activities-hearings van senator McCarthy.
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- DUPREE BLUES
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- T.B. BLUES
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- ONE MORE ROUNDER GONE
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- I'M GOING TO LIVE THE LIFE I SING ABOUT (IN MY SONG)
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- COTTON EYED JOE
- 1956
- JOSHUA FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
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- GO 'WAY FROM MY WINDOW
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- ON THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
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- DON'T SMOKE IN BED
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- TIE-TAMPING CHANT
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- SHENANDOAH (ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI)
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