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American musician Leyla McCalla, a cellist, guitarist and banjoist, was a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She joined her fellow Chocolate Drop Rhiannon Giddens in the Smithsonian Folkways release, Songs of Our Native Daughters (New Horizons 7 April 2019).
As a solo artist, she has laid out some extraordinary soundworlds over the last decade including an album of songs based on the poetry of Langston Hughes.
William Dart finds McCalla exploring her Haitian heritage in her new album Breaking the Thermometer.
Music Details
ARTIST: Carolina Chocolate Drops
TITLE: You Be Illin'
ALBUM: Leaving Eden
COMPOSER: Mizell et al
LABEL: Nonesuch
ARTIST: Our Native Daughters
TITLE: Lavi Difisil
ALBUM: Songs of Our Native Daughters
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Heart of Gold
ALBUM: Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
COMPOSER: McCalla, Hughes
LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Let it Fall
ALBUM: A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: Jazz Village
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: The Capitalist Blues
ALBUM: The Capitalist Blues
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: Jazz Village
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Aleppo
ALBUM: The Capitalist Blues
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: Jazz Village
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Nan Fon Bwa
ALBUM: Breaking the Thermometer
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: ANTI
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Fort Dimanche
ALBUM: Breaking the Thermometer
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: ANTI
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Dan Reken
ALBUM: Breaking the Thermometer
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: ANTI
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Jean and Michèle
ALBUM: Breaking the Thermometer
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: ANTI
ARTIST: Leyla McCalla
TITLE: Memory Song
ALBUM: Breaking the Thermometer
COMPOSER: McCalla
LABEL: ANTI
