Zion Crossroads

Corey Harris - Zion Crossroads

Zion Crossroads
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Artist: Corey Harris
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
  1. Ark of the Covenant
  2. No Peace For the Wicked (featuring Ranking Joe)
  3. Heathen Rage
  4. Sweatshop
  5. In the Morning
  6. Fire Go Come
  7. Walter Rodney Intro
  8. Walter Rodney
  9. Afrique (Chez Moi)
  10. Cleanliness
  11. Plantation Town
  12. You Never Know
  13. Keep Your Culture

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Free Music Review: Corey Harris - Zion Crossroads
Hit: 4 Stars

I've been an on-again-off-again fan of Corey Harris for the last 10 years. I liked his previous work, but I thought he was sort of plateauing in terms of musical development. But with this release, I stand corrected!

'Zion Crossroads' is Corey's first attempt at reggae and it's really good. Good new reggae is really hard to find today, especially the more traditional-sounding stuff. This isn't that horrible dancehall or reggaeton; it's just good old-fashioned reggae that is hard to dislike.

I didn't think Corey would be this daring in his musical genre shiftings, but I'm certainly glad he did it. I love the addition of the reggae musicians to Corey's usual sparse instrumentation.

Corey easily passes for a reggae musician. His vocals fit right into the music well. This sounds like it could have been recorded in the late 60s in Jamaica.

'Zion Crossroads' is one of the most relaxing, chillout, good-times albums of the year. I like listening to this in rush-hour traffic and mellowing out. I am hopeful for more of his blues/meets/reggae material. I hope this album does well; it deserves to.

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The culmination of this journey is Zion Crossroads, Harris' debut recording on Telarc. Inspired and informed by his travels to various parts of Africa over the past decade, the album captures some of the most enduring elements of African-American music - blues, reggae, soul and so much more - and infuses them with a sense of history, social consciousness and spirituality.

Harris gets help on the path to Zion Crossroads from producer Michael G, the guitarist and co-founder of Easy Star All-Stars, the New York-based reggae collective that crafted Dub Side of the Moon (2003) and Radiodread (2006). Like Harris, he sees the project as a powerful convergence of style, vision, history and culture: "The marriage of Corey's socially conscious lyrics and the revolutionary sounds of reggae make for a potent musical cocktail that arouses the body, mind, and spirit."

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