Nikki Giovanni - Truth is On The Way - on limited Yellow Vinyl

Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir 
Truth is On The Way
Modern Harmonic 8244 - 50th anniversary edition on limited Yellow Vinyl

Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution"

First reissue of this powerful blend of funk, soul, & poetry. Originally released in 1971 on her Right-On Records, this re-issue is pressed on color vinyl and packaged in striking new artwork with liner notes by Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother). 

NIkki Giovanni's debut album is a self forged genre of beat poetry fused with a range of music from jazz to gospel. The result is a potent and powerful combination and is as relevant now as when it was first released. 

"Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside the church, you can hear it. In the dusty silence, you can hear it. In the electric texture of the crowd, the buzz of the instruments, you can hear it. What you hear and feel is safe in the belly of the blues. Her voice loved like hands on the ivory keys of the church organ deep inside the spell of gospel. Nikki Giovanni is a poet at the pulpit righteous with spirit and energy. A poet in the choir hypnotized with the sound of the past, present and future. Nikki Giovanni inspires a new language rising out of the desolate and uncertain seventies." – Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother, Irreversible Entanglements) 

     Includes; 
Great Pax Whitey
Nikki Rosa
My Tower 
Alabama Poem
Ego Tripping 
All I Gotta Do 
Second Rapp Poem 
Poem for Aretha 
Woman Poem 
Poem for a Lady of Leisure Now Retired 

NEW SEALED re-issue 50th anniversary edition LP on limited colored vinyl