📃 Recensie: Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly – Shoulder It

Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly – Shoulder It  Geschreven door: Eric Campfens i.s.m. BarnOwlBlues | FB Eric Campfens   Walter Parks wordt gezien al gezien als autoriteit op het gebied van blues, gospel, worksongs. Niet voor niets vroeg het Library of Congress hem of hij zijn archief hierover aan hen wilde overdragen.

Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly - Shoulder It

Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly - Shoulder It (February 2023) For 10 years Parks, a Florida native, served as the sideman guitarist to Woodstock Festival legend Richie Havens. With The Unlawful Assembly he successfully melds roots music of divergent origins. Old-school spirituals, gospel, blues, and  prison work chants intertwine with swamp hollers, shaped-note hymns and Appalachian reels of white homesteader origin.

Release: Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly - Shoulder It

Walter Parks and the Unlawful Assembly - Shoulder It (February 2023) I regard spirituals as a common denominator – an undeniable sonic glue born out of the bonds of slavery, now binding us all together for the common good as reimagined by my new adventure The Unlawful Assembly with collaborator/drummer/ producer Steven Williams, Ada Dyer on vocals, Paul Frazier on bass, Michael Bellar on organ and Andrae Murchison on trombone.