'Cowboy Carter' highlight brings the 'White Album' classic full circle
wrote the song in the summer of 1968, inspired by the American civil rights movement. All that history is right there in Beyoncé’s version. She keeps the folkie Paul guitar, complete with the squeaks, but adds her heavenly gospel-soul harmonies. What she does with the word “arise” is incredible in itself.
“Blackbird” is a song with a long history in Black music, from reggae to jazz legends including Ramsey Lewis, Sarah Vaughn, and Cassandra Wilson. Beyoncé has always loved reclaiming rock & roll as Black female performance. It’s one of her artistic passions—check her mind-blowing versions of The Doors’ “Five To One,” Alanis Morrissette’s “You Oughta Know,” and even Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire.” Long before Stevie Nicks had her grand 2010s comeback, Destiny’s Child got her back on MTV wth “Bootylicious.
He lashed out at Powell even more directly months later in “Commonwealth Song,” which turned into “Get Back.” But in “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” he made these Caribbean immigrants his embodiment of family values—and turned it into an unimpeachably wholesome kiddie sing-along. The title phrase came from a Nigerian musician friend in London, the conga player Jimmy Scott.
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