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Jake Blount unearths Black history through folk music, using its sounds as a bridge to the future

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment November 17, 2022

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The first show Jake Blount ever played professionally was at a furniture maker’s workshop in Hillsborough, N.C. Blount, who specializes in performing Black American traditional music, played a set of folk tunes that included the blues standard “John Henry.” Between songs, he talked about the music’s context within the legacies of slavery and the U.S. prison system. “I did what I felt was a pretty transgressive reading of the songs,”... + full article



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