“…a poet and an emcee whose radiance and wit ring as clearly on tape as they do in everyday life.”
— Grayson Currin, music writer
“…Ammons sings the high un-lonesome . Her words strike the match of what she is afraid of but does not fear. She is aural, oral, and auger.”
— Nikky Finney, National Book Award Winning Poet
Meet Shirlette Ammons
Writer and musician Shirlette Ammons is not afraid of intimacy. Her poems and songs are like diary pages that she invites audiences to flip through at their leisure. Ammons is used to sharing her personal space. She grew up in a rural country home with a twin sister and dozens of cousins. After she left home for college, she started to explore her race and sexuality and used the power of the pen to document her self-discovery.
Her first collection of poetry, “Stumphole: Aunthology of Bakwoods Blood,” was published in and followed by the more recent “Matching Skin” (Carolina Wren Press/). Ammons is a musical artist as well. She’s the frontwoman of Mosadi Music, a hip-hop band based in the Triangle, and she just released an EP called “And Lovers Like,” with Chapel Hill blues rock band The Dynamite Brothers.
PLAYERS:
shirlette ammons - Vocals, Programming; Synth bass, “Spades”
Amelia Meath - Vocals, “Delight,” “Hello. It’s Alright.”
Mavis Swan Poole - Vocals, “Short,” “Spectacles”
Jessamyn Stanley - Vocals, “Temperature”
G Yamazawa - Vocals, “All The Things”
Kane Smego - Vocals, “All The Things”
Central Park School For Children - Vocals, “Hello. It’s Alright.”
Brevan Hampden - Drums, “Clown Faces”
Darion Alexander - Bass Guitar, Moog Bass
DJ Harrison - Drums, Clavinet, Juno, Moog, Rhodes; Piano, “Clown Faces”
Phil Cook - Programming, Piano, Guitars, Percussion; Vocals, “Neighborhood Headlines”
Chris Boerner - Bass, “Delight”
Brad Cook - Op-1, “On Spectacles Part 1,” “Delight” “On Spectacles Part 2;” Bass, “Temperature”
Nyk Baglio - Drums, “Spectacles,” “Hello”
Matt McCaughan “Spectacles,” “Hello”
Featuring commentary from: Mykki Blanco, Fred Moten, Shorlette Ammons, Anansj Stephens, DJ Doowop, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Vivica C. Coxx, Tunde Wey
TECHNICAL:
Recorded at Break Alive Studios in Durham, NC by Jeremy “Bean” Clemmons
Assisted by Lynn Grissett and Brevan Hampden
Additional Recording at Overdub Lane in Durha
In addition to her music releases, Shirlette served as a producer on Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS series A CHEF’S LIFE as well as SOMEWHERE SOUTH which also aired on PBS. Shirlette is the recipient of Black Public Media’s Pitch Black Prize which awarded funding towards completion of the THE HOOK, a documentary short that explores Black maritime history through the plight of chef Ricky Moore. She also served as producer on acclaimed music documentaries MAY THE LORD WATCH: THE LITTLE BROTHER STORY and STAY PRAYED UP, which debuted at Telluride Film Festival in September as well as THE SEEDS WE KEEP (Oxford American). She is also an award-winning poet and a Cave Canem Fellow whose body of work includes two collections of poetry (MATCHING SKIN and STUMPHOLE: AUNTHOLOGY OF BACKWOODS BLOOD).
Shirlette Ammons is a Black queer southern truth teller. She is a poet and musician who has also served as producer on Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV & film projects. She is also an identical twin who hails from a tiny, wonderfully-named pocket of eastern North Carolina earth called Beautancus.
– Grayson Currin, Music Writer
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