History is hidden in plain sight, you know; blacks in country music. It’s right there, in so many different ways. This album confronts the ways we are culturally conditioned to avoid talking about America’s history of slavery, racism, and misogyny...
While much has changed in the 40 years that Rhiannon Giddens has been alive, her latest album, Freedom Highway, is a powerful testament to the inequality and injustice that remain. Other songs span various aspects of African American history.
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