http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From Corey Harris on Calabash Music2008-08-28T11:20:50ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comDaily Breadhttp://coreyharris.calabashmusic.com/#album_284802005-06-29T02:13:12ZMusic from Daily BreadA “cultural emissary” (Entertainment Weekly) and rising star on the world stage, Corey Harris has distilled the broad experience of his travels into the sounds on Daily Bread. Influences as varied as African finger-style acoustic guitar, Caribbean rhythms and American blues are transformed into vital and modern new music.
Daily Bread is Harris’ most personal and wide-ranging album to date. Highlights include “The Sweetest Fruit” (a love song performed as an acoustic duet with Charlottesville-based violinist Morwenna Lasko), the political “The Bush Is Burning,” and the Mali-esque “Mami Wata” (one of two duets with acclaimed vocalist and trumpet player Olu Dara). New Orleans pianist Henry Butler also joins Harris on five songs.
]]>Mississippi to Malihttp://coreyharris.calabashmusic.com/#album_96062005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Mississippi to MaliWith these recordings, made in the field in Mississippi and in Mali, Corey Harris explores a musical link that unites two continents. Eight of the fifteen tracks on 'Mississippi to Mali' come from sessions with Ali Farka Touré and two of his musicians in Niafunke.

Four more tracks were recorded in Mississippi, where Harris worked with harmonica legend Bobby Rush and veteran blues drummer Sam Carr, and also with Otha Turner’s Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. Turner himself had died just a week before the sessions, so his 12-year old granddaughter, musical prodigy Shardé Thomas, played the fife and sang in his place on two tracks, adding a cross-generational element to this album’s ambitious cross-continental dialogue. Never mind the ancient roots of the blues; this is fresh, vibrant music of today bridging the realities of living traditions on two continents.]]>