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The Unlawful Assembly of… is a harmonious mix of race, repertoire and result. Old-school spirituals, gospel, blues, swamp hollers, shaped-note European hymns, work chants are all presented in a swampy style that borrows from the blues, southern rock and gospel and that occasionally rests upon modern electronic loops. Reimagined covers and traditionals include: “Wade In The Water”, “Follow The Drinking Gourd”, “Down By The Riverside”, “Steal Away”, “Old Blind Barnabus”, “Amazing Grace”, “Higher Ground” and “Early In The Mornin’”. Walter contributes “Georgia Rice” and a co-write “Shoulder It” with Stan Lynch (Tom Petty/Heartbreakers).
The American imagination pictures the realm of spirituals, blues and jazz in Mississippi or Louisiana but Walter’s inspiration for The Unlawful Assembly of comes from southeast Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp – a mystifying wilderness near where Walter grew up that was once a place of refuge for runaway slaves, Civil War deserters and European homesteaders. The stories and music made in this area were archived in The Library of Congress during the early 1940’s just before the last east-coast pioneers were evicted from the swamp by the U.S. government. Walter Parks is proud to have been recently recognized by The American Folklife Collection as an artist pioneer of sorts who’s creating a reborn interest in these historic hollers, reels and spirituals by virtue of his contemporary approaches to it. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9320/?
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Cafe Eleven, 501 A1a Beach Blvd, St Augustine, FL 32080-7951, United States, Augustine
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