SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS: NATURAL SOUL

The Spirit House Movers: Beautiful Black WomenFrom Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness (forthcoming on Sonboy, 1968/2009)Sonboy Recordings resurrects this 1968 recording out of New Jersey featuring a young LeRoi Jones (now better known as poet Amiri Baraka) during the heart of the Black Power Movement. At some point in my life (early 1990s, when I was at Berkeley), something like this probably would have blown me away but at this point, having listened up on my Last Poets and Watts Prophets, it's ...

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