More than 25 years since its original
release, From Where I Stand returns as a
multifaceted, educational initiative, including an expanded CD box
set, free online experience and concert celebration
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Country Music Hall of Fame® and
Museum in collaboration with Warner Music Nashville is releasing an
expanded version of the box set From Where I Stand: The Black
Experience in Country Music. Originally released in 1998
by the museum and Warner, the updated CD collection spans a century
of music and traces the many ways Black Americans have created,
contributed to, and been influenced by country music. The set will
be released on Friday, May 31,
accompanied by a free-to-access online experience via the museum's
website.
Released more than 25 years ago, the original set's creation was
inspired and urged by Black country recording artist Cleve Francis and American
Baptist College executive Nelson
Wilson, who saw a disturbing gap in music history. "It's a
part of our history that's been hidden from us," Francis told the
Washington Post upon the set's release.
Now, the museum and Warner Music Nashville have once again
collaborated to expand, redesign and update the box set. The new
collection encompasses 82 tracks, with a fourth disc titled
"Reclaiming the Heritage" that presents a fresh wave of Black
artists in country and Americana who emerged through 2020. New
essays by recording artists Rhiannon
Giddens and Rissi Palmer join
the original essays by distinguished music scholars and
journalists.
Giddens states in her essay, "The most beautiful thing to me
about the Black country renaissance is that its stars, who are
finally starting to get the recognition they deserve, are truly
using country music the way that, to me, it was born to be used.
Their music reflects and highlights a cultural viewpoint that has
been traditionally suppressed, shows the best of the American
narrative, and, in the end, tells the important stories of now,
for the generations of tomorrow."
The CD set is packaged in a hard-bound booklet and illustrated
with traditional quilt designs created years ago by the women of
the Gee's Bend community of Alabama, with cover type by visual artist and
designer David Jon Walker. Each era
of music is represented with a quilt from roughly the same time
period as the music. The set is now available for preorder on the
museum's website.
Online Experience
Beginning May
31, all the music in the box set can be heard on the
museum's website via From Where I Stand: The Online
Experience. The online experience is a free, educational
resource containing all the incisive essays, archival photographs
and video, and historical track notes for each selection. In
addition, supplemental resources from the museum's archive and
resources for educators will be available.
The online experience will also include music that was unable to
be licensed for the physical box set release, including Beyoncé and
the Chicks' collaboration on "Daddy Lessons," Lil Nas X's "Old Town
Road," and Al Green's version of
"For the Good Times."
Concert Celebration
On Tuesday evening, June 18, a variety of artists represented in the
box set will celebrate the release of the project in a
one-time-only concert in the museum's CMA Theater. From
Where I Stand: The Concert Celebration, presented by Amazon and
Riverview Foundation, will be led by co-producers Rissi Palmer and Shannon
Sanders. Artists performing in the concert include
Blanco Brown, Cowboy Troy,
Tony Jackson, Hubby Jenkins,
Miko Marks, Wendy Moten, Rissi
Palmer, Darius Rucker, The
War And Treaty and Barrence Whitfield.
Tickets to the free concert can be reserved beginning
May 31 at 10
a.m. CT on the museum's website, based on availability.
The concert will be filmed and released on the museum's website
this fall.
Track listing for the box set:
Disc 1 – The Stringband Era
1. DeFord Bailey - "Pan American
Blues"
2. DeFord Bailey - "Muscle Shoals
Blues"
3. Taylor's Kentucky Boys - "Gray
Eagle"
4. Georgia Yellow Hammers - "G
Rag"
5. Andrew & Jim Baxter - "K. C.
Railroad Blues"
6. The Dallas String Band - "Dallas Rag"
7. James Cole String Band -
"Bill Cheatem"
8. Peg Leg Howell & Eddie
Anthony - "Turkey Buzzard Blues"
9. Charlie McCoy & Bo Chatmon - "Corrine
Corrina"
10. Mississippi Sheiks - "Sitting on Top of the World"
11. Mississippi Sheiks - "Yodeling Fiddling Blues"
12. Memphis Sheiks - "He's in the Jailhouse Now"
13. Mississippi Mud Steppers - "Morning Glory Waltz"
14. Lead Belly - "The Midnight Special"
15. Lead Belly - "Rock Island Line"
16. Nathan Frazier &
Frank Patterson - "Eighth of
January"
17. Murph Gribble, John Lusk & Albert
York - "Apple Blossom"
18. DeFord Bailey - "Fox Chase"
Disc 2 – Soul Country
1. Wynonie Harris - "Bloodshot Eyes"
2. The Orioles - "Crying in the Chapel"
3. Big Al Downing - "Down on the
Farm"
4. Ivory Joe Hunter - "City
Lights"
5. Ray Charles - "I'm Movin' On"
6. Ray Charles - "I Can't Stop
Loving You"
7. Bobby Hebb - "Night Train to
Memphis"
8. Solomon Burke - "Just Out of
Reach"
9. Fats Domino - "You Win Again"
10. Esther Phillips - "Release
Me"
11. Joe Hinton - "Funny How Time
Slips Away"
12. Arthur Alexander - "Detroit City"
13. The Supremes - "It Makes No Difference Now"
14. Bobby Hebb - "A Satisfied
Mind"
15. The Staple Singers - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
16. Joe Tex - "Half a Mind"
17. Etta James - "Almost
Persuaded"
18. Joe Simon - "The Chokin'
Kind"
19. Ivory Joe Hunter - "He'll Never
Love You"
20. Dorothy Moore - "Misty Blue"
Disc 3 – Forward with Pride
1. Charley Pride - "The Snakes
Crawl at Night"
2. Charley Pride - "Is Anybody Goin'
to San Antone"
3. Charley Pride - "Kiss an
Angel Good Mornin'"
4. Linda Martell - "Color Him
Father"
5. Otis Williams & the Midnight
Cowboys - "How I Got to Memphis"
6. La Melle Prince - "The Man That
Made a Woman Out of Me"
7. Stoney Edwards - "She's
My Rock"
8. Stoney Edwards - "Hank and Lefty
Raised My Country Soul"
9. Stoney Edwards - "Pickin'
Wildflowers"
10. O. B. McClinton - "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You"
11. Jo Ann Sweeney - "I'll Take
It"
12. The Pointer Sisters - "Fairytale"
13. Ruby Falls - "Show Me Where"
14. Lenora Ross - "Lonely
Together"
15. Big Al Downing - "Touch Me (I'll
Be Your Fool Once More)"
16. Professor Longhair - "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
17. Dobie Gray - "From Where I
Stand"
18. Cleve Francis - "Love Light"
19. Aaron Neville - "The Grand
Tour"
20. Barrence Whitfield - "Irma
Jackson"
21. Ted Hawkins - "There Stands the
Glass"
22. Herb Jeffries - "I'm a Happy
Cowboy"
Disc 4 – Reclaiming the Heritage
1. Carolina Chocolate Drops - "Ruby, Are You Mad at Your
Man?"
2. Rhiannon Giddens - "At the
Purchaser's Option"
3. Darius Rucker - "Wagon Wheel"
4. Darius Rucker - "Don't Think I
Don't Think About It"
5. Valerie June - "Workin' Woman
Blues"
6. Our Native Daughters - "Black Myself"
7. Mavis Staples - "Touch My
Heart"
8. Tony Jackson - "I Didn't Wake Up
This Morning"
9. Rissi Palmer - "Country Girl"
10. Miko Marks - "It Feels Good"
11. Kane Brown - "Heaven"
12. Kane Brown - "Worldwide
Beautiful"
13. Yola - "Ride Out in the Country"
14. Allison Russell -
"Nightflyer"
15. Wendy Moten - "'Til I Get It
Right"
16. Cowboy Troy - "I Play Chicken with the Train"
17. Blanco Brown - "The Git Up"
18. BRELAND - "Cross Country"
19. Brittney Spencer - "Bigger Than
the Song"
20. Mickey Guyton - "Black Like
Me"
21. Keb' Mo' - "Loving Arms"
22. The War And Treaty - "A Lesson in Leavin'"
About the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum:
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
collects, preserves and interprets country music and its history
for the education and entertainment of diverse audiences. In
exhibitions, publications, digital media and educational programs,
the museum explores the cultural importance and enduring beauty of
the art form. The museum is operated by the Country Music
Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization
chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum is
accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, and is among the
most-visited history museums in the U.S. The Country Music
Foundation operates Historic RCA Studio B®, Hatch Show Print®
poster shop, CMF Records, the Frist Library and Archive and CMF
Press. Museum programs are supported in part by Metropolitan
Nashville Arts Commission and Tennessee Arts Commission. More
information about the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is
available at www.countrymusichalloffame.org or by calling
(615) 416-2001.
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