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Jim Crow's Tears

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Prologue; Minstrel Theme; Plantation Days; Never Approve; Pearl The Jezebel; Please Understand; Massa Come Down; Tan That Hide; The Final Straw; Jim Crow’s Tears; Motherless Child; These Chains; They Still Hate You; We Can’t Forget Our Past; Unbind My Eyes; No More Coonin’; We Can’t Live This Way; Modern Day Minstrel Show.

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Kris Johnson: Jim Crow's Tears

Read "Jim Crow's Tears" reviewed by James Nadal


The term Jim Crow, reputedly, has its origins in West Africa, based on a Yoruba folk tale of a crow called Jim, who appeared lazy, yet was clever and lucky. This story was brought to America by the enslaved Africans, who embellished it, and turned it into a song and dance routine to take their minds ...


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