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Marika Hughes - "With Love From J", for vocals & tenor guitar

from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023) by Johnny Gandelsman

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Jewlia Eisenberg was a composer, singer, bandleader, ritual and resistance worker, scholar and a dear friend who worked at the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness. Her mission: make a lovely noise about complex ideas. Jewlia died at the age of 49 on March 11, 2021 after a long fought illness. With her life and ideas in mind, I wrote this song for Johnny, With Love from J.

I asked myself a number of questions as I began to write: What would I like Johnny’s audience to consider? How do we attempt to understand others separated from us by space, time, experience, and race? Can a song offer resistance and love all at once?

This is a folk song at its core. Its resistance lies in the questions asked, the compassion lives in the consideration of others and the love echoes throughout as the audience is encouraged to sing along with Johnny.

The chorus sings: “The sky above us, the ground below, 360 support around us, cut discursive thought”. These are the words Jewlia offered her band before walking onstage each night; hands held in a circle, a deep breath together, a wink and a smile from Jewlia and off we would go to perform. My hope is that With Love from J will keep Jewlia’s life and ideas alive as we all sing together wherever and whenever we can. - Marika Hughes

lyrics

Have you heard?
Our muse left word
No time to waste
This is our great unlearn

Dear friends
Waste no time
Take a step into the unknown
Once in a while

Make sure to see a sunrise
Be sure to sing a song

Consider
A child
A black girl playing
Swinging in the park

Be sure
To protect her
Look out
For her brother
Do we know how?

Remember
No false pretender
Hushed voices
Crescendo in resistance

We should know
That we just don't know
Look, look, look
Look what our comfort has sown
How do we care?

The sky above us
Ground below us
360 support around us
cut discursive thought

The sky above us
Ground below us
360 support around us
cut discursive thought

Can you hear
what we've learned
Through the years?

That love
Sweet love
Reminds us
What to listen for

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from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023), released July 1, 2022
Johnny Gandelsman, vocals & tenor guitar

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