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Attica Blues

by Archie Shepp

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Overall Rating: 2.0787 Attica Blues is ranked overall as 2.0787 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.6000 Attica Blues has an avg. critic score of 3.6000 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

Refining his large-ensemble experiments of 1971,Attica Bluesis one of Archie Shepp's most significant post-'60s statements, recorded just several months after authorities ended the Attica prison uprising by massacring 43 inmates and hostages. ...more

Rolling Stone

Were I the Minister of Kultur, or at the most the Great Program Director in the Sky, here's what I would do: order that "Attica Blues," the maddest, blackest and most visceral expression of musical rage ever produced be played by every radio station in the country, not only as some token, a sadly miniscule reparation for the massacre of over 40 pri ...more

Yahoo! Music

Refining his large-ensemble experiments of 1971, Attica Blues is one of Archie Shepp's most significant post-'60s statements, recorded just several months after authorities ended the Attica prison uprising by massacring 43 inmates and hostages. ...more

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