Bruce Levingston writes of his new release: "The genesis of this recording was an invitation to perform for the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, an event which inspired me to meditate o more→n the complex history of my birthplace, Mississippi. A storied, culturally-rich state, it has produced some of our country's most important artists - including William Faulkner, B.B. King, Leontyne Price, and Eudora Welty - but is also a place that has witnessed notably painful struggles with race, poverty, and equality. The scars are painful and deep. Here, among our colleges, churches, cotton fields and battlefields, contradictions abound. These disparate, but related, elements have long absorbed …