Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues

Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues is Sarah Webster Fabio’s third album for Folkways. Funky riffs and jazz arrangements written and performed by her children and their band Don’t Fight the Feeling underpin Fabio’s poetry, giving her words gravity. "I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich source of inspiration welling from the Black experience here in America,” explains Fabio in the album’s liner notes.

Often referred to as the “mother of Black studies,” Fabio is recognized for her contributions to founding the West Coast Black Arts Movement and for helping to establish Black Studies as an academic discipline. As a poet, performer, scholar, educator, and cultural critic, she published countless poetry collections, wrote for local and national publications, including Black World and Black Scholar, and recorded four albums with Folkways.

Track Listing

Audio Player 101	The Hand That Rocks	Sarah Webster Fabio	02:58
Audio Player 102	Sweet Songs	Sarah Webster Fabio	05:10
Audio Player 103	Juju For: Grandma	Sarah Webster Fabio	05:38
Audio Player 201	Chromo	Sarah Webster Fabio	01:18
Audio Player 202	Still, A Red Hot Axe	Sarah Webster Fabio	02:52
Audio Player 203	If We Come As Soft Rain	Sarah Webster Fabio	03:19
Audio Player 204	Jujus / Alchemy of the Blues	Sarah Webster Fabio	05:23
Audio Player 205	Jujus / Alchemy of the Blues (instrumental)	Sarah Webster Fabio	05:17