15 Dave Specter & Billy Branch - The Ballad of George Floyd

The Ballad of George Floyd – Dave Specter featuring Billy Branch

The Ballad of George Floyd (5:14)

Dave Specter: vocals, guitar
Billy Branch: vocals, harmonica
Brother John Kattke: keyboards
Danny Shaffer: acoustic guitar

Composed by Dave Specter
(SpecTone Music, BMI)
Production & Supervision by Julia A. Miller and
Elbio Barilari
Recorded by Dan Glomski at Evanston SPACE in
July 2020

Dave Specter's powerful and timely new
song, “The Ballad of George Floyd”

"I wrote the song a few days after George Floyd was murdered and the lyrics pretty much wrote
themselves. George Floyd didn’t die in vain. He helped spark a worldwide movement for justice and
change. I'm proud to collaborate with the great Chicago bluesman Billy Branch on this tune. We share the
same vision and are inspired by the words of John Lewis: 'If it hadn’t been for music, the civil rights
movement would’ve been like a bird without wings.’”
Dave Specter

off of Dave Specter's 30 year Delmark retrospective - SIX STRING SOUL!