Iko Iko | Song Around The World

“If I Was King,” was inspired by the story of my great-grandmother. She was married off to a fire-and-brimstone preacher who banished her from her home and from her children when she was a young woman. Her story is lost to the family, no one knows why this happened. They were dirt poor sharecroppers living hard lives in the deep delta region of Arkansas. Women during that time, and in that place, did not have many choices. I sing the song about her, and also about all the ways women have been to