"Black Music Matters! In these days even more! This Album is to honor one of the great pioniers of Blacl Blues and Folk Music. Josh White was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist. White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies were subsequently used by McCarthyites as a pretext for labeling him a communist to slander and harass him. From 1947 through the mid-1960s, White was caught up in the anti-communist Red Scare, and as a consequence his career was damaged. However White's musical style would go on to influence several generations of musical artists. He was the first black singer to give a White House command performance (1941), to perform in previously segregated hotels (1942), to get a million-selling record (""One Meatball"", 1944), and the first to make a solo concert tour of America (1945). He was also the first folk and blues artist to perform in a nightclub, the first to tour internationally, and (along with Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie) the first to be honored with a US postage stamp. White songs - located between Blues - Ballad and Classical Folk music are always like an outcry against segregation, social harrassing and injustice. All threough the decades they never lost their impact on other artists as well as to people who listen to these recordings today. So never forget and keep the memory alive! "