Happy New Year everybody!! 2008 is here...and the BMA is still going strong. I hope that this year turns out to be better than the last, for you and myself included.
I thought that I'd start the year off with some inspirational words. So here's author and poet James Weldon Johnson reading from his work "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse". "God's Trombones" was inspired by Mr. Johnson's frequent travels throughout the country as an NAACP speaker (1916-1931), and in these rare recordings, his only commercial recordings, Johnson reads the first four poems of his collection: the opening prayer and the first three sermons. The recordings were originally issued posthumously - first listed in the Gramophone Shop (New York) Record Supplement for August 1938, less than two months after Mr. Johnson's death in an automobile accident.
Back in episode 73, the movie "Go Down, Death" was based on the fourth part of this recording. Just a side note for ya. Peace.
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