Reginald Mobley: Solitude CD
Collaborating with Chicago-based lutenist/guitarist Brandon Acker and double-bass and gamba player Doug Balliet, countertenor Reginald Mobley’s new album features English lute song by Purcell, Dowland, and Eccles, alongside song arrangements by Virginia-born guitar virtuoso, abolitionist, and composer Justin Holland. The centerpiece is a sequence of songs on texts by African American poet Crystal Simone Smith which explore “the indomitable resilience contained in the tale of a runaway slave,” composed by Jonathan Woody and Douglas Balliett.
