A prolific poet with eight books out already, North Carolina resident Jacki Shelton Green brings music to her political\/social statements, cultural commentary, and anthemic linguistics with some very esteemed guests on hand for this debut album. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis I Know For Sure,\u201d with Jennifer Evans, brings eloquent, expressive spoken word about the seemingly never ending quest for freedom in the African American community as Evans hums softly in the background. \u201cMadwoman\u201d continues with strong storytelling about deep-seated prejudice while light, atmospheric sounds linger.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, \u201cLetter From The Other Daughter Of The Confederacy\u201d tackles slavery with fierce wordplay with an ominous quality on the musical side, while \u201cLitany For The Possessed\u201d recruits Shirlette Ammons for a percussive heavy, trip-hop influenced display of very literate rapping. \u201cI Wanted To Ask The Trees,\u201d the album\u2019s standout tune, makes good use of keys alongside Green’s descriptive prose.<\/p>\n
The final two tracks bring in contributors on \u201cNo Poetry\u201d and \u201cThe River Speaks Of Thirst,\u201d as the former echoes with CJ Suitt’s relevant insight and the latter soars with Nnenna Freelon’s robust, sublime, Grammy-nominated pipes that takes on a call and response approach. <\/p>\n
Sometimes being delivered in a protest fashion and other times from a gospel angle, Green couldn’t have released this album at a better time as America is seeing one of the most noteworthy civil rights movements of this generation. As long as one is willing to listen openly, absorb freely, and ponder sincerely, Green’s artistic activism will speak with forthrightness, power, and a timeless truth that is so desperately needed during these divided times. <\/p>\n
Green’s the first African American and third woman to be appointed to the North Carolina Poet Laureate, and this jazz and hip-hop influenced effort is sure to perk the ears of fans of Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch or Last Poets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10538],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45931","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jaki-shelton-green","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45931"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45931"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}