Album
White Jesus Black Problems
2022 · Funk / Soul, Blues
3 collectors on Gatefold own this
White Jesus Black Problems is a Blues album by Fantastic Negrito, originally released in 2022. On Gatefold: 7 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
About
The years 2017, 2019, and 2021 brought Fantastic Negrito three Grammys for Best Contemporary Blues Album. If 2022 doesn’t provide a fourth for the Oakland-hailing singer and composer, it is only because his <i>White Jesus Black Problems</i> isn’t actually a blues album. The project is a concept LP exploring the relationship between Negrito’s seventh-generation white Scottish grandmother, an indentured servant, and his seventh-generation African American grandfather, a slave, in Colonial Virginia. Buried in some wily and operatic amalgamation of funk, rock, blues, gospel, Motown, and country are Negrito’s impressions of the era and the unknowable pressures of carrying on an interracial relationship during that time. For his part, Negrito is able to narrate an impossible sort of existence (“You Don’t Belong Here,” “You Better Have a Gun,” “Register of Free Negroes”) with near-academic resolve, bolstered by grooves too expansive and lively to be reduced to just “the blues.”
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Tracklist
- 1Venomous Dogma5:31
- 2Highest Bidder3:34
- 3Mayor of Wasteland0:49
- 4They Go Low3:42
- 5Nibbadip3:47
- 6Oh Betty3:56
- 7You Don't Belong Here1:07
- 8Man with No Name3:30
- 9You Better Have a Gun3:32
- 10Trudoo3:37
- 11In My Head3:23
- 12Register of Free Negroes1:21
- 13Virginia Soil3:10
Sound DNA
- Blues
- Contemporary Blues
- raw
- soulful
- defiant
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Adyam AbrahamBACKING VOCALS
- Bomanie MosleyBACKING VOCALS, PERCUSSION
- Cornelius MimsBASS SYNTH
- Dom FlemonsBANJO
- Dr. Omar DphrepaulezzBACKING VOCALS
- Hannah LevyBACKING VOCALS
- James "Sticknasty" SmallDRUMS
- Javier DiazPERCUSSION
- Laura Jane JonesBACKING VOCALS LEAD GUITAR LEAD VOCALS
- Lionel HolomanBACKING VOCALS ELECTRIC PIANO ORGAN
- Mandela MsaniiBACKING VOCALS
- Masa KohamaLEAD GUITAR RHYTHM GUITAR
- Mia PixleyCELLO
- Miko MarksBACKING VOCALS
- Nahuel BronziniBACKING VOCALS
- Ron FinleyBACKING VOCALS
- Thomas SalcedoLEAD GUITAR
- Xavier DphrepaulezzDRUM PROGRAMMING ELECTRIC PIANO ORGAN
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 7 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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