Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Long Walk to Freedom
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Artist: Ladysmith Black MambazoEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Heads Up
Soundtracks:
- Nomathemba
- Hello My Baby
- Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
- Homeless
- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
- How Long
- Mbube
- Amazing Grace/Nearer To My God To Thee
- Nkosi Sikelel 'Iafrica
- Inkanyezi Nezazi
- Shosholoza
- Long Walk To Freedom
- Thula Thula
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Hit: 4 Stars
A fine album that gives the essence of the South African "mbube" style that offers some great variety due to the various guests on the songs. The re-works of Paul Simon's two songs from Graceland are very good. Melissa Etheridge offers a nice, soulful, gospel-esque voice to "Diamonds on the Soles of Shoes" that is right up there with Paul Simon's singing. The song is missing the great guitar that was heard on Graceland, but does not lack overall.
My personal favorite was the song "Mbube", the precursor to and original the "Lion Sleeps Tonight" song; I enjoyed the song when I heard it in "Coming to America"; it is very soulful. The finest part is the bluesy guitar that Taj Mahal offers in the song to jazz it up.
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For more than 30 years, South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo has infused its township sound of Isicathamiya with rich gospel harmonies. LBM's unique sound was brought to American audiences thanks to Paul Simon's landmark Graceland, and the group has toured and recorded tirelessly since. Long Walk To Freedom is a new retrospective in which the group rerecords new versions of songs from throughout its career with help from such guests as Emmylou Harris, Sarah McLachlan, Taj Mahal, and Zap Mama as well as several popular countrymen. As with the Simon album, the North American guests' voices fit hand-in-glove with the group's warm harmonies. Highlights include "Nomathemba," which was the band's first hit in 1973, the popular "Hello My Baby," and the Graceland tunes "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" and "Homeless." Though ostensibly a career retrospective, this new recording actually proves that Ladysmith Black Mambazo has never sounded better. --Tad HendricksonInternational Music CDs
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