1. The Music Is The Magic
2. I Got Thunder (And It Rings)
3. Not To Worry
4. Down Here Below
5. A Circle Of Love
6. Incantation/ Throw It Away
7. Bird Alone
8. The World Is Falling Down
9. Wholly Earth
10. Natas (a/k/a Playmate)
11. Being Me
"Kendra Shank always performs stimulating and thought-provoking music, but this project is something particularly special...Kendra really captures the spirit of the music, digging into the words...putting her own personality into the music...A Spirit Free is a gem..."
-Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"A triumph of homage and personality--a meeting of minds... The first album
by another singer devoted exclusively to the Abbey Lincoln songbook. It won't be the last, but
it will remain the standard by which its successors are measured."
-Gary Giddins, liner notes
"By adding her own prologue, the aptly named "Incantation," to Lincoln's "Throw It Away," Shank turns
the tune into a chant of spiritual purification. Shank is supremely talented,
innovative and at the same time readily accessible ... there's no one else quite like her."
-Will Friedwald, Village Voice
"[Shank has the] ability to not
just interpret a Lincoln
song, which is challenging enough, but to wear it as if it were a second skin."
-Robin James, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
