''Harlem'' is an album by artist
Shawn Amos. ''Harlem'' was released on February 15, 2011.
Amos titled the album Harlem after being inspired by a museum exhibit dedicated to the
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the ti ...
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[Hardy, Ernest. ''Renaissance Man''. LA Weekly, 2000]
Track listing
Players
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Shawn Amos sings, plays acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, plus banjo on "Vicksburg"
* Patrick Milligan plays banjo, electric & acoustic guitar, and sings
* Ben Peeler plays lap steel, mandolin, and dobro
* Roger Len Smith plays bass and sings
* Robert Jolly plays drums
* Chris Anderson plays piano, plus guitar on "Blackface"
* John Thomas plays organ and piano
* David Henry plays cello and organ
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Gia Ciambotti
Gia Ciambotti (born September 13, 1962 in Hollywood, California) is an American singer, and the daughter of John Ciambotti, bassist for the band Cloverhttps://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-john-ciambotti27-2010mar27-story.html. She first ...
sings
* Derf Reklaw plays congas on "Blackface"
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Mark Olson sings, plus plays harmonica on "Independence Day"
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Frank "Poncho" Sampedro plays guitar on "Southern Man"
* Jeremy Parzen plays electric guitar on "Angel in Black"
* Charlie George plays snare on "Angel in Black"
* The 3 J's sing on "Vicious Circle"
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Ian Whitcomb
Ian Timothy Whitcomb (10 July 1941 – 19 April 2020) was an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, writer, broadcaster and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song " You Turn Me On" reached number 8 on the ''B ...
arranges brass section on "Goin' East"
Notes
References
*Los Angeles Times
*National Public Radio
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Shawn Amos albums
2011 albums