Adia Victoria Shares New Song “South Gotta Change”: Listen
Nashville artist Adia Victoria has released a new song. It’s called “South Gotta Change,” and it was executive produced by T Bone Burnett. “‘South Gotta Change’ is a prayer, an affirmation, and a battle cry all at once,” Victoria wrote in a statement. “It is a promise to engage in the kind of ‘good trouble’ John Lewis understood necessary to form a more perfect union.” Listen below, and scroll down for her full statement.
Adia Victoria’s latest album, Silences, arrived last year. It was produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner.
Adia Victoria:
In 2020 I have watched as the world became irreversibly altered. The upheaval Covid-19 caused has allowed for a sacred pause in our daily life.
During this lapse we lost Congressman John Lewis. In the days following his death I pondered the work he accomplished and the work left to us who remain.
‘South Gotta Change’ is a prayer, an affirmation, and a battle cry all at once. It is a promise to engage in the kind of ‘good trouble’ John Lewis understood necessary to form a more perfect union.
No other place embodies the American experiment with the precision of the South. It is home to both unspeakable horror and unshakable faith. It is up to us, those who are blessed enough to be Southern, to take up the mantle Brother Lewis left us. As the old saying goes, “As the South goes, so goes the nation.”
Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
