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Every Nigger is a StarReleased: 1973Boris Gardiner

LINER NOTES: Boris Gardiner, Every Nigger is a Star (1973)

By: Erica Moiah James

In an attempt to build excitement for the Every Nigger is a Star (film), the film’s soundtrack, with its suggestive album cover, was released months before the film. Its provocative title, look, and sound promised the excitement of this series, or at the very least, Lockhart’s Silky Slim (fig. 6). 18 The style of the album cover placed it in direct conversation with the album cover for The Harder They Come.

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