Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane featuring Eric Mingus - Twenty Dollar Bill
you ready to get blown away from a new super cool heavy blues recording from Delmark Records from Elliott Sharp!! - The multi-talented NYC experimental/avant jazz legend, Elliott Sharp's Terraplane featuring Eric Mingus on vocals! Yep, that MINGUS!! (son of Charles Mingus!)
Written by Elliott Sharp, “Twenty-Dollar Bill” is both a lament about the nature and value of folding money in today’s world as well as a satiric stab at the fact that Andrew Jackson, featured on the $20 bill, was also a slaveholder. The push to replace Jackson with Harriet Tubman, a social activist and abolitionist and escaped slave, has been mired in Congressional inactivity.
“Twenty-Dollar Bill” (Sharp, zOaR Music – BMI)
- Eric Mingus, vocals
- Elliott Sharp, guitars, keyboards
- Dave Hofstra, bass
- Don McKenzie, drums
Recorded at Studio zOaR – NYC; August 2023 Produced by Elliott Sharp, Mixed and Mastered by Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp's TERRAPLANE synthesizes the intersection of country and urban blues with Mississippi fife & drum bands, post-Mingus/Ayler jazz, the sonic innovations of Sharp's long-running ensemble CARBON and the rhythmic force of the groove, from the shuffle to contemporary dance music. Begun in 1991, Terraplane has been through many permutations with a number of guest artists including HUBERT SUMLIN, the legendary guitar innovator and sideman to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, as well as singer/poets ERIC MINGUS and TRACIE MORRIS.
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