Kemp Harris: “Edenton”

A keyboard-driven number about a false nostalgia for yesteryear. If you’re not listening too closely to the lyrics, you might mistake “Edenton” for a “Glory Days”-type number, regaling the best of what’s been lost. But Kemp Harris has a few more cards to play. The story he’s telling about his hometown paints a picture of the tense detente between different races that reigned during segregation. Back when “everybody knew their place.” What kind of violence kept everyone in their place? Harris reflects; older, wiser, and with the rose-colored glasses deftly removed.

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