My new song "SilverCane" is out now! 🖤

SilverCane is about Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as 'Black Wall Street', Greenwood was a wealthy district of an oil town at the turn of the 20th century, with 600 black businesses, including hotels, a bus company, restaurants, 21 churches, a hospital and a post office. Several prominent families owned private planes.

The destruction of Greenwood came in 1921 with a well documented enactment of white supremacist violence, the first incidence of domestic fire bombing in US history. But this song celebrates Greenwood before that; the families, the freedom, the confidence, the feeling of having created a place away from hatred and fear. There is an ominous feeling in the background as we, the listener, know what is coming.

SilverCane is part of my Black Rainbows project. I'm thrilled to be celebrating the success of that album as it shortlisted for the 2024 Mercury Prize, Album of The Year.

xx

 

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Edited September 5, 20242 yr by SoldierofLove

Congrats to her for acclaimed music

Kinda bummed she didn't win but new song is great. Corinne never disappoints.