Songs My Mother Taught Me, by Fannie Lou Hamer

Songs My Mother Taught Me

by Fannie Lou Hamer

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1.	Precious Lord 06:22	buy track
2.	On Being a Sharecropper 05:12	buy track
3.	Run Mourner, Run 01:23	buy track
4.	City Called Heaven 03:31	buy track
5.	All the Pretty Little Horses 01:34	buy track
6.	I’m Gonna Land on the Shore 02:28	buy track
7.	Oh Lord, You Know Just How I Feel 04:03	buy track
8.	I’m Going Down to the River of Jordan 02:42	buy track
9.	Jesus Is My Only Friend 03:03	buy track
10.	Pick a Bale of Cotton 00:43	buy track
11.	Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning 01:08	buy track
12.	Walk With Me 01:41	buy track
13.	This Little Light of Mine 03:07	buy track
14.	Mass Meeting Speech 05:07	buy track
15.	Certainly Lord 01:38	buy track
16.	Woke Up This Morning 02:36	buy track
17.	Amazing Grace 01:27	buy track

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The 20th child of a Mississippi sharecropper family and a commanding voice of the Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) stood tall against the brutality, indignities, and intimidation of implacable racism. She harnessed her mother’s gifts of song and plain-spoken wisdom to steel her fellow seekers of social justice, the cause to which she gave her life. Songs My Mother Taught Me, a re-release of limited-edition 1963 field recordings, breathes new life into Fannie Lou Hamer’s inspiring legacy and her uncompromising call for a righteous world. 47 minutes, 32-page booklet with photos. This recording is the eighth release in the Smithsonian Folkways African American Legacy Series, co-presented with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Learn more: folkways.si.edu/fannie-lou-hamer/songs-my-mother-taught-me/african-american-gospel-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian

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released June 30, 2015

Mark Puryear - Producer, Liner Notes
Worth Long - Recorder
Vivian Tseng - Recorder
Julius Lester - Recorder
Moses Moon - Recorder
Pete Reiniger - Mastering Engineer
Louis H. Draper - Photographer (Cover), Photographer
Herbert Randall - Photographer
Carla Borden - Liner Notes Editor
Sonya Cohen Cramer - Designer

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