Various

Andy Fyfe

From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE. CD/DL Fabled black country compilation gets 4-CD anniversary makeover. A QUARTER century after the original three-disc study of black sicians’ influence on country, From Where I Stand gets updated to show just how much breadth the modern genre has away from the big hat brigade. The original discs remain unchanged and brilliant, from The Mississippi Mudsteppers through The Staple Singers and The Pointer Sisters. The latest addition is, not surprisingly, just as strong and essential. The first two tracks are rightly occupied by Rhiannon Giddens, with Carolina Chocolate Drops and on her none-more-dark solo song At The Purchaser’s Option, continuing through Darius Rucker’s trad country pop, linking with the past via Mavis Staples’ Touch My Heart,…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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