All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 3xCD box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Purchasable with gift card
$75USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
All three Marvin Tate's D-Settlement albums - Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show, American Icons - remastered in a 4xLP box set, on clear vinyl, with a book featuring an oral history of the band.
Includes unlimited streaming of Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
Purchasable with gift card
$85USDor more
lyrics
And you don’t talk Black to justice.
Just be all you can be, our chosen superhero.
But don’t be fucking with justice.
Justice could put you away for life,
Make a made-for-TV movie out of you.
A Black superhero ain’t nothing but a zero. A Black superhero ain’t nothing but a zero.
All Pro,
All Pro
All for one, and all and all and all and all and all
All, all, all
All, all, all
Mama, what’s a Black Superhero,
I mean, can he fly, can he cry, can he die
like Darnell’s old man did in last week’s drive-by?
If you think it’s betta,
You wrong … it ain’t nobody
but the LAPD. And those mo’fucks
fear anything with the word “BLACK” in it
Fear of a Black teenager standing on a street corner looking funky
Fear of a black poet, reading Whitman
Fear of an all-black TV drama
Fear of a Black-owned Bookstore
Fear of an all-Black National Hockey League
Fear of a Black Talk Show Host
Fear, fear of a Black politician
Fear of a black rape victim that can identify her white rapist
All Pro,
All Pro
All for one, and all and all and all and all and all
All, all, all,
All, all, all, all.
In last week’s dramedy
We watched our hero
drive to the end of the rainbow
where he was greeted by drunken fans
waving cans of Minute Maid
and the American Flag…
Mama, why do we always
put another human being
on a pedestal thinkin’ they can do no wrong,
and when they do, we treat them
like a Superhero, a Superhero
who can no longer outrun all his greedy friends,
and foes. A Superhero, who can no longer
see through all the media bullshit hype
All Pro,
All Pro
All for one, and all and all and all and all and all
All, all, all,
All, all, all, all.
Mama, why did they let’em live like a white man
And watch him die, like a Black Superhero?
D-Settlement were Chicago’s best-kept secret: a trailblazing, diverse band mixing R&B, soul, punk, gospel and funk with
biting wit and political commentary. Led by Marvin Tate — a poet, artist, playwright and raconteur who wore pipe cleaners in his hair — and supported by a large, dynamic cast of characters, their music was both of and ahead of its time....more
This record has such a magical flow to it, it seems to capture so directly the ups and downs of life, the joy of music and dance, and it's just so damn catchy and fun to listen to as well. Giles
