It also includes a cover of a 1970s Bob Marley classic and a song that draws its lyrics from two poems.
(meta data) TITLE: Songs of Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Skip to main content SIGN IN Customer Service Browse By African American Music African American Spoken American Folk American History American Indian American Popular Central Asia Children's Contemporary & Electronic Historical Song Jazz & Ragtime Language Instruction Music Instruction Old Time Oral History & Biography Psychology & Health Science & Nature Soundtracks & Musicals Spoken Word Struggle & Protest World History Antigua and Barbuda British Virgin Islands Burkina Faso Central African Republic Congo (Democratic Republic) Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Czech Republic Dominican Republic El Salvador Equatorial Guinea French Guiana French Polynesia Guinea-Bissau Hong Kong Korea, North Korea, South New Zealand Northern Ireland Palestinian Territory Papua New Guinea Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saudi Arabia Sierra Leone Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom United States USSR (former) Virgin Islands of the United States Yugoslavia (former) Big Mama Thornton Big Bill Broonzy Brownie McGhee Dock Boggs Clifton Chenier Elizabeth Cotten Country Gentlemen Woody Guthrie Roscoe Holcomb Lightnin' Hopkins Ella Jenkins Flaco Jiménez Lead Belly Mance Lipscomb Fred McDowell Mary Lou Williams Memphis Slim Mighty Sparrow Elizabeth Mitchell Bill Monroe New Lost City Ramblers David Nzomo Suni Paz Jean Ritchie Tony Schwartz Mike Seeger Peggy Seeger Pete Seeger Mike Seeger Snooks Eaglin Sonny Terry Dave Van Ronk Label/Collection Blue Ridge Institute Bobby Susser Dyer-Bennet Fast Folk Mickey Hart Smithsonian Folkways # Shop # Songs of Our Native Daughters Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell) Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women's stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy, kindred banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell reinterpret and create new works from old ones. With unflinching, razor-sharp honesty, they confront sanitized views about America's history of slavery, racism, and misogyny from a powerful, black female perspective. These songs call on the persistent spirits of the daughters, mothers, and grandmothers who have fought for justice – in large, public ways – only now being recognized, and in countless domestic ways that will most likely never be acknowledged. 52 minutes, 36-page booklet with lyrics. RELATED VIDEOThe Making of "Mama's Cryin' Long" from Songs of Our Native Daughters ## Track Listing icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Black Myself Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Moon Meets the Sun Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Quasheba, Quasheba Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button I Knew I Could Fly Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Polly Ann's Hammer Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Mama's Cryin' Long Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Slave Driver Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Better Git Yer Learnin' Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Lavi Difisil Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Blood and Bones Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button Music and Joy Our Native Daughters icon-circle-play svg-new-pause-button You're Not Alone Our Native Daughters Buy CD $14.98 $9.99 ### Album Info #### Catalog Number #### Year(s) Released #### Recording Location(s) Cypress House Studio, Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA #### Label/Collection Smithsonian Folkways Recordings #### Genre(s) Struggle & Protest #### Country(s) United States #### Instrument(s) 5-string banjo; Accordion; Acoustic guitar; Backing vocals; Banjo; Baritone electric guitar; Bass; Bowed bass; Cello; Clarinet; Drums; Electric guitar; Fiddle; Guitar; Handclaps; Keys; Mandolin; Minstrel banjo; Percussion; Piano; Tenor banjo; Vocals #### Credit(s) Rhiannon Giddens - Producer, Liner Notes Dirk Powell - Producer, Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Liner Notes Emily Lazar - Mastering Engineer Chris Allgood - Assistant Mastering Engineer Amythyst Kiah - Liner Notes Leyla McCalla - Liner Notes Allison Russell - Liner Notes Terri Fensel - Photographer Carla Borden - Liner Notes Editor Visual Dialogue - Designer Download Liner Notes ### Folkways Suggests Everybody's Got a Right to Live Jimmy Collier and Frederick ... Fare Well, Traveller Mark Cohen Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2 Pete Seeger Broadsides - Songs and Ballads Pete Seeger What Now People?, Vol. 2 Various Artists #### Item added to cart ### .
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Songs of Our Native Daughters
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 "Songs of Our Native Daughters" is the debut Americana/folk album by four North American singer-songwriters collaborating as Our Native Daughters. The group includes Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell. The album was released on the Smithsonian Folkways label in early 2019. 
 "Songs of Our Native Daughters" addresses American historical issues that have influenced the identity of black women, including slavery, racism, and sexism. The album features 13 songs, 11 of them written by the group's members.