lyrics, sheet music,tablature As part of my blog series on mother songs, this post is my recording of the 1893 tear jerker “A Widow’s Plea For Her Son.” The guitar was a 2007 National Estralita Deluxe. The microphone was a Sure SM 81 pre-amplified with an ART Tube MP3. I record...
These spiritual songs draw on what DuBois called the “double-consciousness” of knowing who you are but also knowing how you are perceived by white Americans, who probably hold you in contempt as a representative of an excluded class. The many-layered music of the enslaved working-people who...