ARKangel's Lullaby of Harlem

With roots in West Africa, carried on Gambian slave ships to the brutal Caribbean, and the isolated plantations of New Orleans, this rich and rhythmic music flourished in the spirituals of the Mississippi Delta.

Abolition gave Africal Americans a new freedom of the Deep South. And with the Great Migration north, a cultural flowering in Harlem exploded the Blues into the new age of Jazz.

Mail Train Blues, Memphis Blues, Dust My Broom, Deth Don't Have No Mercy, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Sippie Wallace, De Blin Man, Strange Fruit, Ravel Duke Ellington, Gershwin ....