Selections 1976-1988

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
This 2-CD set features Sweet Honey Rock's finest recordings spanning 1976-1988. The repertoire of this powerful a capella ensemble of African-American women singers covers an unprecedented range of original and traditional songs. Their sound is earthy, solid and refreshing, with an exciting range of vocal styles and harmonic blends.

AMAZON
Of course they're preachy--that's what preachers do. The long-running black women's a cappella group (plus an extra member who signs the songs in American Sign Language) is absolutely serious about their historically researched narratives of women and liberation: the struggle against oppression is serious business. But Bernice Johnson Reagon and the group she's led since 1973 also sing like the angels, with harmonies drawn from black American gospel and African traditional music, and when their voices fall to a charged hush, wailing and humming in solidarity, they're incredibly powerful. Selections draws on the group's first eight albums, including their long-out-of-print second disc, and it's almost all richly soulful and uplifting. --Douglas Wolk

Disc 1
1: Ella's Song
2: Wade in the Water
3: Denko
4: On Children
5: Echo
6: Joan Little
7: Beatitudes
8: Peace
9: Sitting On Top of the World
10: More Than A Paycheck
11: Crying For Freedom In South Africa
12: They Are All Falling Around Me
13: Mae Frances
14: I'm Gon' Stand!!!
15: Feel Something Drawing Me On
16: In the Upper Room
17: Seven Principles

Disc 2
1: Testimony
2: Oughta Be a Woman
3: Fannie Lou Hamer
4: Meyango
5: Run Mourner Run
6: As Long As I Have Breath In My Body*
7: No Images
8: Sometime
9: The Gift of Love
10: Biko
11: My Way
12: State of Emergency
13: Cape Fear River Chant*
14: Rivers of Babylon
15: Stranger Blues
16: Oh Death
17: Breaths

Number of Discs: 1

Producer: Bernice Johnson Reagon

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