Corinne Bailey Rae has returned with a new single, SilverCane.
Coupling elements of funk and electro, the powerful track explores one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history, the Tulsa race massacre, which took place in 20th century Greenwood, Oklahoma. Bailey Rae explained:
"Known as ‘Black Wall Street’, Greenwood was a wealthy district of an oil town at the turn of the 20th century, with 600 black businesses, including hotels, a bus company, restaurants, 21 churches, a hospital and post office. Several prominent families owned private planes.
"The destruction of Greenwood came in 1921 with a well-documented enactment of white supremacist violence, the first incidence of domestic firebombing in US history. But this song celebrates Greenwood before that; the families, the freedom, the confidence, the feeling of having created a place away from hatred and fear. There is an ominous feeling in the background as we, the listener, know what is coming."
The song also marks the singer-songwriter's first new music since the release of her 2023 album, 'Black Rainbows', which is nominated for the Mercury Prize this week.
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