EP 4: What We Had On Hand

Annie and Annette follow their maternal line to cotton on to how their family has conjured abundance from what they had on hand.

music

Father I Stretch My Hand to Thee performed by Autreniece and Teena

Ease My Troubling Mind traditional arr. by free feral

poke salat, pluggin’ along, & change is a foot by free feral

If It Wasn’t For the Lord performed by Annie and Connie

Matter of Fact by free feral

Well Well traditional arr. by free feral

Sweet Ride by free feral

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve sSeen traditional arr. by free feral

Walk With Me Lord performed by Autreniece Folsom and Annie Hollowell

Let Jesus Lead You performed by Autreniece and Teena

I Done Got Over performed by Autreniece and Teena

deep down free feral

For sources as well as poems, photographs, and more visit our multimedia altar at www.wearethepromisedland.net

This episode features Annie and Annette Hollowell, Autreniece Folsom, Corine Taylor, Gert McGee, Bessie Pegues, and Mattie Moore. Special thanks to Cory Diane for the tape sync.

Sound design by Cedric Wilson who also mixed the episode. Our Virtual Altar was brought to life by Alleyha Dannett of Ancient Future Fourest with photography by Jasmine B. Johnson and Jai Williams. Our house historian is Rhondalyn Peairs.

We Are the Promised Land is produced by free feral, in collaboration with Annette Hollowell. Special thanks to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and the Mississippi Presenters’ Network, and to the Association for Cultural Equity.

We Are the Promised Land is made possible by generous support from the National Performance Network, the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, Carpetbag Theater, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane, The Panta Rhea Foundation, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Alternate Roots, The Big We Foundation, The Mississippi Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with financial assistance from the National Park Service and the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance.