Corinne Bailey Rae dropped her most recent critically-acclaimed album, Black Rainbows, almost exactly a year ago in Sept. of 2023. While with the success of the album that was shortlisted for the 2024 Mercury Prize, Album of The Year. It appears that Bailey Rae will likely be dropping a deluxe version of the album sometime soon. Dropping a brand new single today, SilverCane, that she says is apart of the project, but was not on the original album. Which is why we are guessing that there is a deluxe version of Corinne Bailey Rae’s album likely dropping sometime soon or in the near future.
SilverCane, itself a very funky and upbeat record where Bailey Rae sings and celebrates about the success of the bustling wealthy Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1900s. That was a wealthy district of an oil town at the turn of the 20th century that was also known as, “Black Wall Street,” with 600 black businesses. Which included hotels, a bus company, 21 churches, a hospital and a post office. As well as several prominent families that owned private planes. Before white supremacist in the first in the first well documented act of white supremacy violence destroyed Greenwood and Black Wall Street in 1921.
As mentioned in a statement by Corinne Bailey Rae about the very funky and upbeat new record. “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.”