Ben Harper continues to create surprise, nearly thirty years after the release of his first album,
Welcome to the Cruel World
.
Now 53 years old, the American has just released an excellent record,
Bloodline Maintenance
(Chrysalis/Pias).
A great explorer of the traditional repertoires of North America, from blues to rock via folk, Ben Harper today delivers a real soul fire, very marked by the news of his native country.
"I think it's time to leave America
," he blurts out.
I'm part of a generation that thought things could only get better.
Yet the
Black Lives Matter movement
showed us that we still hadn't settled the drama of
slavery
and its consequences.
The present times are full of challenges to be met.”
We had not known the singer so committed since
Like a King
, who denounced, in 1994, the police violence that had occurred two years earlier, during which the young African-American Rodney…
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