How Sad, How Lovely has been streamed more than 16 million times on the Spotify platform alone, and her songs have been covered by the likes of Big Thief and Laurie Anderson. It ignited a slow burn that has now become a bushfire. In 2009, her 1950s recordings resurfaced on an independently produced album called How Sad, How Lovely. She made these recordings in her kitchen in the 1950s, but she never found an audience for her music, and then one day she drove away and was never heard from again.” The room disappeared.Įventually, I sought out the host of the party, and asked what we were listening to. The traditional elements were so finely stitched together, with such a sophisticated sensibility, that the whole sounded absolutely original – modern, even.
It had the openhearted, melodic feel of an old Carter Family recording, but there was also some gentle guitar fingerpicking that reminded me of Elizabeth Cotten, and harmonic movement that seemed to echo the songs of Hoagy Carmichael. A woman was singing in a plaintive tone about “a place they call Lonesome”. Langston Hughes died of heart failure on May 22, 1967.In 2010, I was at a friend’s party when a song came up on the house speakers – one that sounded both entirely new to me and as familiar as my own skin. His numerous published volumes include, "The Weary Blues," "Fine Clothes to the Jew," and "Montage of a Dream Deferred." Hughes earned several awards during his lifetime including: a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, and a Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. While many recognized his talent, many blacks disapproved of his unflattering portrayal of black life. In addition to the black dialect, he incorporated the rhythms of jazz and the blues into his poetry. Hughes is noted for his depictions of the black experience. He soon obtained a scholarship to Lincoln University and had several works published. While working as a busboy, he showed his poems to American poet Vachel Lindsay, who helped launch his career. Hughes briefly attended Columbia University before working numerous jobs including busboy, cook, and steward. Langston Hughes, FebruLangston Hughes, one of the foremost black writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Mo.
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