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Table of Contents:

• Heart of gold (3:00)
• When I can see the valley (2:10)
• Mèsi bondye (2:26)
• Girl (2:51)
• Kamèn sa w fè? (2:22)
• Too blue (2:28)
• Manman mwen (3:19)
• Song for a dark girl (2:49)
• As I grew older/Dreamer (3:50)
• Love again blues (2:39)
• Rose Marie (2:58)
• Latibonit (3:49)
• Search (3:20)
• Lonely house (3:27)
• Changing tide (3:04).

Author/Creator:

McCalla, Leyla, 1985- , composer, lyricist, performer

Contributors:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 , author, honouree

Pryor, Tom , instrumentalist

Winslow-King, Luke , instrumentalist

Holden, Cassidy , instrumentalist

Giddens, Rhiannon, 1977- , performer

Yah Supreme , speaker

Hanley, Liz , instrumentalist

Rhody, Matt , instrumentalist

Jenkins, Hubby , instrumentalist

Vappie, Don, 1956- , instrumentalist

Bruneau, Jean-Pierre , writer of supplementary textual content

Languages:

English
Haitian French Creole

Language Notes:

Sung in English (principally) and Haitian Creole.

Main Work:

Vari-colored songs: a tribute to Langston Hughes [by McCalla, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Reproduction of: Vari-colored songs [by McCalla, L.] ([Hillsborough, N.C.] : Music Maker Relief Foundation, [2014]; Issue number: MMCD142 — OCLC Number 866624397)

Related Series:

African American legacy recordings series

Subjects:

Popular music — United States — 2011-2020

Blues (Music) — 2011-2020

Folk songs, Creole — Haiti

Folk music

String band music

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 — Musical settings

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

2011-2020

Folk songs, Creole

Popular music

Blues (Music)

United States

Haiti

Genres:

Folk songs

Songs

Popular music

Blues (Music)

Musical settings

Performers:

Leyla McCalla, vocals, cello, tenor banjo ; with, variously: Tom Pryor, pedal steel guitar ; Luke Winslow King, guitar ; Cassidy Holden, bass ; Rhiannon Giddens, shaker, vocals ; Yah Supreme, spoken word ; Liz Hanley, violin ; Matt Rhody, fiddle ; Hubby Jenkins, guitar, bones ; Don Vappie, tenor banjo.

Production Credits:

Produced by Leyla McCalla and Joseph Dejarnette.

Performance Medium:

Female voice doubling cello, banjo [tenor banjo], and guitar

General Notes:

Blues and popular songs, in part using texts by Langston Hughes, and arrangements of Haitian folk songs.
Title from disc label.
Recorded Studio 808a, Floyd, Virginia and Piety Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Originally released as Music Maker Relief Foundation MMCD142, 2014.
Program notes by Leyla McCalla and Jean-Pierre Bruneau with texts in English or Haitian Creole (27 pages : portraits (some color)) inserted in container.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (44 min., 32 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 162,886

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 093074024126
Publisher Number, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: SFW CD 40241

OCLC Numbers:

1193040012