Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Yellowman: A Play By Dael Orlandersmith (Original Score) (2015)

Tracklist

01. Alma Speaks
02. Odelia's Blues
03. Lightskin Man
04. Jungle Kids
05. She's Changing
06. High Yaller Party
07. Really Touch Her
08. Workin' At the Mill
09. Blood Kin
10. Alma's Train
11. Drinkin'
12. Country to City
13. Things Lookin' Up
14. Eugene's Train
15. A Death
16. Vicious
17. Fight
18. Listen and Watch



For "Yellowman", the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play by Dael Orlandersmith, Elliott Sharp composed an evocative score that resonates with the play's Southern locale in the 1960's and '70's, drawing both on country and urban blues. The music is performed by E# on solo acoustic guitar and on electric guitar with his band Terraplane (Sim Cain on drums and Dave Hofstra on acoustic and electric bass.) Ranging from introspective acoustic abstractions based on the stylings of Robert Pete Williams, Skip James, and Bukka White to raging electric blues inspired by Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Albert King, Music For Yellowman is both rootsy traditional and completely contemporary.

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