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Album: Sweet Honey in the Rock: Selections 1976-1988
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Ella's Song More Info...
2)    Wade In The Water More Info...
3)    Denko More Info...
4)    On Children More Info...
5)    Echo More Info...
6)    Joan Little More Info...
7)    Beatitudes More Info...
8)    Peace More Info...
9)    Sitting On Top Of The World More Info...
10)    More Than A Paycheck More Info...
11)    Crying For Freedom In South Africa More Info...
12)    They Are All Falling Around Me More Info...
13)    Mae Frances More Info...
14)    I'm Gon' Stand!!! More Info...
15)    Feel Something Drawing Me On More Info...
16)    In The Upper Room More Info...
17)    Seven Principles More Info...
  Disc 2
1)    Testimony More Info...
2)    Oughta Be A Woman More Info...
3)    Fannie Lou Hamer More Info...
4)    Meyango More Info...
5)    Run Mourner Run More Info...
6)    As Long As I Have Breath In My Body More Info...
7)    No Images More Info...
8)    Sometime More Info...
9)    The Gift Of Love More Info...
10)    Biko More Info...
11)    My Way More Info...
12)    State Of Emergency More Info...
13)    Cape Fear River Chant More Info...
14)    Rivers Of Babylon More Info...
15)    Stranger Blues More Info...
16)    Oh Death More Info...
17)    Breaths More Info...
 
Album: Sweet Honey in the Rock: Selections 1976-1988
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Ella's Song More Info...
2)    Wade In The Water More Info...
3)    Denko More Info...
4)    On Children More Info...
5)    Echo More Info...
6)    Joan Little More Info...
7)    Beatitudes More Info...
8)    Peace More Info...
9)    Sitting On Top Of The World More Info...
10)    More Than A Paycheck More Info...
11)    Crying For Freedom In South Africa More Info...
12)    They Are All Falling Around Me More Info...
13)    Mae Frances More Info...
14)    I'm Gon' Stand!!! More Info...
15)    Feel Something Drawing Me On More Info...
16)    In The Upper Room More Info...
17)    Seven Principles More Info...
  Disc 2
1)    Testimony More Info...
2)    Oughta Be A Woman More Info...
3)    Fannie Lou Hamer More Info...
4)    Meyango More Info...
5)    Run Mourner Run More Info...
6)    As Long As I Have Breath In My Body More Info...
7)    No Images More Info...
8)    Sometime More Info...
9)    The Gift Of Love More Info...
10)    Biko More Info...
11)    My Way More Info...
12)    State Of Emergency More Info...
13)    Cape Fear River Chant More Info...
14)    Rivers Of Babylon More Info...
15)    Stranger Blues More Info...
16)    Oh Death More Info...
17)    Breaths More Info...
 
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  • Sweet Honey In The Rock includes: Bernice Johnson Reagon, Carol Lynn Maillard, Evelyn Maria Harris, Louise Robinson, Patricia Johnson McQueen, Yasmeen, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Shirley Childress Johnson, Aisha Kahlil, Nitanju Bolade Casel.
  • Compilation producer: Bernice Johnson Reagon.
  • Audio Remixers: Jim Robeson; Bob Dawson.
  • Liner Note Authors: Shirley Childress Johnson ; Evelyn Harris; Aisha Kahlil; Yasmeen; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Nitanju Bolade Casel.
  • Photographer: Oliver Nophlin.
  • Translator: Walter Lowenfel.
  • Arrangers: Aisha Kahlil; Sweet Honey in the Rock; Bernice Johnson Reagon; Nitanju Bolade Casel.
  • This is a 34-track double-CD compilation drawn from Sweet Honey in the Rock's first eight albums, covering their 13-year, seven-album tenure at Flying Fish Records, plus one album recorded for Redwood Records. The song choices and non-chronological sequencing highlight the group's consistently impressive vocal interaction during a time when nine different singers made up a quartet or quintet (not counting sign language interpreter Shirley Childress Johnson, who joined in 1980), the only constant member being founder Bernice Johnson Reagon. Employing influences including folk, R&B, and even reggae, musically Sweet Honey remains primarily a gospel group; in fact, in their impassioned multiple leads, they often sound like a pocket gospel choir. Though founded in the 1970s, Sweet Honey has its roots in the 1960s, specifically Reagon's earlier group, the Freedom Singers, and though they touch on feminist concerns and such topical issues of the '80s as apartheid, the political material grows out of the civil rights movement and the labor movement that preceded it, their imagery drawn equally from Biblical and left-wing terminology. Much of their material is original and much is written by Reagon, but they also include traditional folk songs such as "Wade in the Water" and traditional African songs, and there are lyrics adapted from such sources as the Bible and Kahlil Gibran. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks. While inevitably fans may quibble with some of the omissions from Selections, its two-plus hours provide a comprehensive view of Sweet Honey's early work. ~ William Ruhlmann
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