Lawrence Brownlee: NPR Music Field Recordings

Opera singer Lawrence Brownlee is known for portraying kings and princes. But lately he s been thinking about real people: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, to name a few. He s been thinking about the Black Lives Matter movement and an old spiritual called There s a Man Going Round Taking Decades ago, singers like Paul Robeson and Lead Belly recorded it. Brownlee, with jazz pianist Jason Moran, revives the old song to tell a new story for the 21st century. Jason and I chose this s