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Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

Rev. Sekou And The Seal Breakers

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

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Music

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Rev. Sekou and the Seal Breakers gave one of the most rousing Tiny Desks we've ever had, opening with one question: "Do you want to get free?"

Transcript

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I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

0:05.2

To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts.

0:10.2

Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. Yeah. Oh yeah.

0:39.0

Greetings tiny desk.

0:40.0

My name is Reverend Seaku and these are the seal breakers. Now they're from Brooklyn,

0:50.0

but I was raised in a little old place called Sint Arkansas,

0:52.8

they got about 11 houses and 35 people.

0:57.2

And they'd work from Can't See Morning to Can't See Night

1:00.5

and then they'd make their way to the juke joint. And then early Sunday morning they'd make their

1:06.7

way to the church house. And so in the tradition that I come from, we do a little call and

1:12.4

respond. So will you talk back to me today?

1:15.2

Will you talk back to me because I'm feeling a little homesick is that all right?

1:27.0

And so there's a lot of trouble in the land. But we got one question for you.

1:36.0

Oh, you want to get free. Say yeah.

1:39.0

Come on, come on, I don't believe you want to get free. Do you want to get free? Say yeah! Yeah! We want freedom! freedom and we we

2:04.0

ah

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one

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now

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how

2:10.0

how how

2:11.0

let's go! go!

2:13.0

Hit me!

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