Format: CD, Album, & Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 2026
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Poetry, & Indigenous
[Tracklist]
[Credits]
01 Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace (6:12)
02 Rabbit Is Up to Tricks (4:23)
03 I Pray for My Enemies (2:01)
04 Fear Redux (4:15)
05 Without (4:16)
06 Mahk Jchi 2026 (3:09)
07 Instinct (2:00)
08 My Guy (2:18)
09 Perhaps the World Ends Here (1:42)
10 Stomp All Night (6:11)
11 I Am a Prayer (6:55)
12 In the Beautiful Perfume and Stink of the World (4:32)
13 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (3:10)
[Credits]
Producer and Arranger: esperanza spalding, Producer and Liner Notes: Joy Harjo, Liner Notes Editor: Carla Borden, Arranger: Justin Tyson, Designer: Caroline Gut, Photographer: Graham Tolber, Engineer: Gary Laney, Mike Prado , Fernando Lodeiro, and Oscar Zambrano
[Notes]
As a poet and musician, Joy Harjo channels a creative force she describes as a “vibration of love” to connect countless traditions and artforms, countering the despair and heartache caused by power and hate. Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace, her debut for Smithsonian Folkways, draws on the long-intertwined rhythms of jazz and poetry, the power of improvisation and self-expression through sound, and the vitality of Native culture and spirituality to spark a chain of vibrational energy to engulf the whole world. Harjo’s voice is bold and direct, supported by producer and bass player esperanza spalding, covering a repertoire that includes a jazz standard, a song written by Harjo’s mother and uncovered by her sister, and many originals that speak to contemporary issues and her life as one of the most celebrated American poets of the last century.
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