Release Date: 19 May 2017
Label: Zent Records/thirty Tigers / Thirty Tigers
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0752830442412
Genres: Rock
Release Date: 19 May 2017
Label: Zent Records/thirty Tigers / Thirty Tigers
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 752830442511
Genres: Rock
Description
To make 'In Times Like These', noted activist, author, documentary filmmaker and theologian Rev. Osagyefo Sekou went back to his Southern home searching for his family’s musical roots in the deep Arkansas blues and gospel traditions. Produced by six-time Grammy nominated Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, featuring Luther’s brother Cody Dickinson, Rev. Sekou’s album is a new vision for what Southern blues and rock can mean today. In Times Like These is drenched with the sweat and tears of the Mississippi River, the great tributary that ties so much of the South together. The album’s sonic landscape captures the toil of Southern field hands, the guttural cry of chain gangs, the vibrancy of contemporary street protest, backwoods juke joints, and shotgun churches—all saturated with Pentecostal sacred steel and soul legacy. Rev. Sekou’s blues lineage runs deep. Rev. Sekou's biological grandfather, Richard Braselman played with legends like Louis Jordan, Albert King, and B.B. King. The grandfather, Rev. James Thomas, who raised Sekou, was an ordained Elder in the Church of God in Christ and a railroad union organizer. Carrying the legacy of his grandfathers, Rev. Sekou is a Pentecostal bluesman. During the recording of In Times Like These, Rev. Sekou made a pilgrimage home to Zent, Arkansas and stood at his beloved grandparents gravesite.
Description
To make 'In Times Like These', noted activist, author, documentary filmmaker and theologian Rev. Osagyefo Sekou went back to his Southern home searching for his familys musical roots in the deep Arkansas blues and gospel traditions. Produced by six-time Grammy nominated Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, featuring Luthers brother Cody Dickinson, Rev. Sekous album is a new vision for what Southern blues and rock can mean today. In Times Like These is drenched with the sweat and tears of the Mississippi River, the great tributary that ties so much of the South together. The albums sonic landscape captures the toil of Southern field hands, the guttural cry of chain gangs, the vibrancy of contemporary street protest, backwoods juke joints, and shotgun churchesall saturated with Pentecostal sacred steel and soul legacy. Rev. Sekous blues lineage runs deep. Rev. Sekou's biological grandfather, Richard Braselman played with legends like Louis Jordan, Albert King, and B.B. King. The grandfather, Rev. James Thomas, who raised Sekou, was an ordained Elder in the Church of God in Christ and a railroad union organizer. Carrying the legacy of his grandfathers, Rev. Sekou is a Pentecostal bluesman. During the recording of In Times Like These, Rev. Sekou made a pilgrimage home to Zent, Arkansas and stood at his beloved grandparents gravesite.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Maggie Antone
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Benjamin Booker
Michigander
Lucinda Williams
Jamestown Revival
Penny & Sparrow
Dwight Yoakam
Jim White
Skids
Somebody's Child
Death By Unga Bunga
Mark Farner
The Sheepdogs
Kevin Ayers
Reuben
