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Pursuing a career spanning fve decades, never restng on his laurels, always on the move, Eric Bibb has a full bag of stories to tell from around the world. So, here comes Global Griot, global indeed, recorded in France, Sweden, Jamaica, Ghana, Canada, the UK and the US! If the expression “World Music” were not so problematc and much misused as a marketng tool it would suit Eric’s approach. But don’t get it wrong: He is frst and foremost a “blues brother”- an old school bluesman who fnds ways to expand his domain. Along his journey he’s been fortunate enough to meet incredibly talented musicians who he regards as kindred spirits. Some of them have been reunited for this album such as Sweden’s guitar ace Stafan Astner, reggae legend Ken Boothe from Jamaica, top-drawing Americans Big Daddy Wilson, Harrison Kennedy, Michael Jerome Browne, Linda Tillery of Cultural Heritage Choir fame and two remarkable West African musicians – Malian guitarist/singer Habib Koite (who contributed so much to the success of “Brothers In Bamako”) and the Senegalese Solo Cissokho whose omnipresent kora playing is one of the beautes of this double-disc album. And let’s not forget wife Ulrika Bibb contributng celestal harmonies.
This is Eric’s most collaboratve work to date with all songs (besides four traditonal tunes and two covers) sharing writng credits with various musicians involved in the album. The two covers were originally recorded in the ‘50’s: Ed McCurdy’s “Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream” was an anthem of the peace movement. Children were flmed singing it at the destructon of the Berlin Wall and it was covered by (among others) Simon & Garfunkel and Johnny Cash. Big Bill Broonzy’s “Black, Brown and White” was his most commited song,
alas stll relevant nowadays. As Eric tells us in “Hoist Up The Banner”: “I don’t think of myself as a fag waver and here I am, wavin’ this one” – because he felt he had to, confronted with the ugly rhetoric spreading like prairie fres, here and there. Always the entertainer, the educator and the motvator, Eric Bibb, more than ever, contnues to resonate with what is currently happening in the world today
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