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Release Date: 2023-02-24Labels: Stax, Craft Recordings
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS SINCE THE ICONIC WATTSTAX EVENT• 6-CD set of the complete 1972
Wattstax L.A. Memorial Coliseum show, including 10 previously unreleased tracks
• Features 80-page, full-color book with introduction by Wattstax creator
Al Bell, and new essays by
Rob Bowman and A. Scott Galloway
. Including performances from Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Albert King, Carla Thomas, William Bell, The Bar-Kays, Eddie Floyd, Kim Weston, The Staple Singers and more
All of us have something to say, but some are never heard...
Over seven years ago the people of Watts stood together and demanded to be heard.
On a Sunday, this past August, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, over one hundred thousand Black people came together to commemorate that moment in American history.
For over six hours, the audience
heard, felt, sang, danced and shouted the living word, in a soulful expression of the Black experience.
This is the music of that experience.