- How are you hands?
- They're a little cold, but I can out your arms.
(laughs) - Okay, everybody, it's Chad, Dalai parts of America.
“We are currently editing the final episode”
of the series, it will drop a week from today. In the meantime, I wanna wish you all a very happy holidays. And as a holiday offering in a token of our appreciation for listening to the series, spreading the word, I wanna share with you a little more music
that we gathered along the way. - I mean, we were super lucky on this project.
We got to work with some incredible musicians
who performed some Dalai songs for us shared with us some of their own work. In this bonus EP, you're gonna hear two different performers, singer songwriters, starting with the musician Nora Brown. - This is, it's a friend of Spanja.
- Okay. - Oh, great. - Nora is a very wise, very old soul who is actually only 14 years old.
“Already well established in the old time music scene”
or he has an album, we'll link to it from our website. We recorded her at this beautiful church in Brooklyn, called St. Augustine Church, really big dome ceilings. And we sat sort of right in front of the altar
and she got out her banjo and played us a song. - How does she even learn to play this? - Well, I started with, this man named Schlomo Pesco. - Okay.
- He was based out at Brooklyn and he started teaching me all the time music when I was six, but not on the banjo and they gladly. - Oh well.
“- And then he passed away and then I started learning banjo”
from, I just began to learn the banjo before he died, but I didn't really get much hardware. So then I started learning from some other people. - Look at him. - Why?
(dramatic music) - The song she played for us is called "The Very Day I'm Gone", which was written by the late Balotsinger 80 Gramm.
Nora first heard it off an album of 80 Gramm songs,
performed on that record by the duet Anna and Elizabeth. Here's Nora's version. I just can't stop playing the song. (dramatic music) (gentle music)
(gentle music) ♪ I'm a lady I'm gone ♪ ♪ You'll know what I'm trying to learn ♪ ♪ You're a lady I saw ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪
♪ You're a lady I saw ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪
♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ I'll sign check my hands and go home ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪ ♪ It's all sign check my hands and go home ♪
♪ It's all sign check my hands and go home ♪
♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ (gentle music) ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪
♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪
“♪ It's all sign check my hands and go home ♪”
♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪ ♪ It's all here in my soul ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪
♪ It's all here in my soul ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm all alone ♪
♪ Oh, I'm dreaming of that ♪
- Oh, I got no other song for both of me. - No, that's beautiful. Wow, you can't just give you high five, that was just perfect.
“- You'll hear more of Nora in the next episode.”
She assisted us in creating a scene from Dollys Childhood. Next musician that we want to play for you is a woman named Amethyst Kia, who's based in Johnson City, Tennessee, not too far from Knoxville.
Amethyst recently collaborated with Rianne Giddens, Allison Russell, and Laila McCalla. They formed the group Our Native Daughters. And just really soon, I'll call it songs of Our Native Daughters, critically acclaimed album.
And we initially contacted Amethyst
“and asked her if she'd be willing to play”
an old mineworkers labor organizing song from West Virginia that told the story of some of the violence that occurred in those labor camps. We didn't end up using that song
because we cut the whole scene from episode seven, but in the course of things, Amethyst ended up performing an original song of hers that liked the last one from Nora just stuck so deep in my head. The song is called Firewater.
(upbeat music)
♪ Melon, can't I always seem to love for me ♪
♪ Whisper than I'm certain I'm a dream ♪ ♪ Start as thrones in the shapes that never need ♪ ♪ Strange in every day I'll see ♪ ♪ I'm a ghost in the home I ain't in the room ♪ ♪ Everywhere I go in pending room ♪
♪ How many spirits does it take to live the spirit ♪ ♪ I don't know, I don't know ♪ ♪ 'Cause I bought every spirit and I'm still laying here ♪ ♪ Crying on the floor on the floor ♪ ♪ So can you just leave me ♪
♪ Bein' drenched in fire water won't save me ♪ ♪ How if it's a good path to fill and freeze ♪ ♪ Can you just leave me me ♪
♪ Pins of stairs on the only crowns I've ever gained ♪
♪ So when the dark I find the answers that I need ♪
“♪ Sitting lights on the only stars I ever see ♪”
♪ I'm in the nights until I find and you can't read ♪ ♪ How many spirits does it take to live the spirit ♪
♪ I don't know, I don't know ♪
♪ 'Cause I bought every spirit and I'm still laying here ♪ ♪ Crying on the floor on the floor ♪ ♪ So can you just leave me ♪
“♪ Bein' drenched in fire water won't save me ♪”
♪ How if it's a good path to fill and freeze ♪ ♪ Can you just leave me ♪ ♪ Can you just leave me ♪ ♪ Can you just leave me ♪
“♪ Bein' drenched in fire water won't save me ♪”
♪ That was Amethyst Kia, performing the song "Firewater" ♪ ♪ At the Willow Tree Coffee House in Johnson City ♪ ♪ Thanks to Terry Dozier for lending us that space to record in ♪ ♪ And thank you to James Napoli for recording ♪ ♪ And thanks to Justin Hiltoner ♪
♪ Bluegrass player from our first bone and CP ♪
♪ Who really connected us to Nora and Amethyst ♪ ♪ Thanks also to Sam Gleaves ♪ ♪ To do in the research and performing that mining song ♪ ♪ Really bringing it to light for all of us ♪ ♪ You can find out more about Amethyst Nora ♪
♪ On our website, dollypartnsamerica.org ♪ ♪ We will be back in one week with the final episode ♪ ♪ In the meantime, happy holidays everybody ♪
