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Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters

Laura Barton, The Guardian, 21 February 2019

FOUR BLACK FEMALE BANJO PLAYERS wrestling with gender, race, slavery, sexual assault and the domination of the male gaze might make an admirable-if-arduous prospect, but this new collaboration proves by turns a proud, devastating, authoritative album made for our bewildering times.

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