The haunting 'Strange Fruit' has often been called into use to invoke the need for change in the face of America's greatest sins. Today, Bettye LaVette brings the song back to the center of the conversation.
, returns"Strange Fruit" to the blues – a musical form that developed on the same ground stained by the blood Meeropol's lyrics describe. An ascending piano line and a brushed drum establish a space for Smokey Hormel's guitar lines to intertwine with LaVette's powerful, weathered, insistent 74-year-old voice.
LaVette has said that she wanted to record"Strange Fruit" in a way that had not been attempted before, but which retained the drama of Holiday's original reading. She's accomplished that. Choosing to share the song today, she offers something necessary: a connection to the past that protesters are trying, again, to make truly past, and a moment to mourn and renew.
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