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Sound Tracks: Episode 2
Sound Tracks: Episode 2
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
10/05/12
Watch the full episode, with stories from Scotland. Senegal, Iceland and the US.
Quick Hits: Jimi Mbaye sings "Birima"
Quick Hits: Jimi Mbaye sings "Birima"
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
10/03/12
Watch Senegalese guitarist Jimi Mbaye perform the song "Birima."
Quick Hits: Julie Fowlis
Quick Hits: Julie Fowlis
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
10/03/12
Julie Fowlis performs “Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird” (“My Love is on the High Seas")
Quick Hits: Of Monsters and Men
Quick Hits: Of Monsters and Men
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
10/03/12
Nordic pop-folk ensemble Of Monsters and Men performs one of their new hits.
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Don't Get Trouble In Your Mind
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Don't Get Trouble In Your Mind
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
06/21/12
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform a bluegrass standard for Sound Tracks: Quick Hits.
Carolina Chocolate Drops: No Man's Mama
Carolina Chocolate Drops: No Man's Mama
Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders
06/21/12
The Carolina Chocolate Drops perform a blues standard for Sound Tracks: Quick Hits.
"No Man's Mama" was originally sung in the 1920s by blues diva Ethel Waters. At the time its lyrics were downright radical for detailing a woman's giddy liberation after getting her divorce decreed. This version features guitar and banjo strumming by Hubby Jenkins and Dom Flemons, but it's Rhiannon Giddens' impeccably fearless vocals that steal the show.
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