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...Twenty-Five... (CD)

By: Sweet Honey In The Rock (Artist)

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Sweet Honey In The Rock Artist Snapshot:

Since this female a cappella collective formed in Washington, D.C. in 1973, it has performed a kaleidoscopic array of music styles, from Liberian religious music to Woody Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie covers. It has also become a byword for social and political activism, participating in benefits for AIDS and the homeless, as well as contributing its considerable musical expertise to education programs focusing on black music. Its leader, Bernice Johnson-Reagon, is the mother of 21st-century singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon.

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DISC 1 for ...Twenty-Five... (CD) Album By Sweet Honey In The Rock (Artis...
1   We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For  
2   Chant  
3   Battered Earth  
4   Motherless Chil'  
5   Redemption Song  
6   Greed (A Sermonette)  
7   Sound-Bite From Beijing  
8   Sometime  
9   Run  
10   Anybody Here?
11   Forever Love
12   I Was Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor
13   Hope
 

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Review

Dirty Linen (10-11/99, p.71) - "...another recording by a talented group of women who 'believe'....it is a good starting point to one of America's greatest a capella institutions..."
Mojo (Publisher) (2/99, pp.97-98) - "...among the finest arguments for sitting back and just listening to the wonders of the human voice..."

Title Note

Sweet Honey In The Rock: Ysaye M. Barnwell (vocals, drums, shaker, triangle, djembe, bells); Aisha Kahlil (vocals, drums, tambourine, cymbals); Carol Maillard (vocals, tambourine, shaker); Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Nitanju Bolande Casel (vocals); Shirley Childress Johnson.

Recorded at Bias Recording Company, Springfield, Virginia. Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

Pioneering a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock celebrated their silver anniversary in style by releasing TWENTY-FIVE in 1998. Still helmed by founder Bernice Johnson Reagon at the time, the group displayed their trademark eclecticism and vocal mastery on the album. Sometimes it's difficult to believe one is hearing only a handful of voices and not a full-blown choir, as the complex vocal lines weave in and out of each other like a carefully constructed tapestry. As ever, Sweet Honey produces a stylistic smorgasbord; there's their take on reggae (Bob Marley's classic "Redemption Song"), gospel ("I Was Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor"), and liberally sprinkled dashes of blues, R&B, traditional African music, and even doo wop (this being an a cappella group after all) rounding out their sound.

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