Niall Doherty In late 2019, British producer and songwriter Fraser T Smith travelled to New Orleans to meet Albert Woodfox, the former Black Panther who spent over 40 years in solitary confinement.
The encounter was part of Smith’s debut solo album, “12 Questions,” an ambitious project that poses 12 big head-scratchers, such as “Is It Too Late to Save the Planet?” and “What Matters Most?” to an array of artists and activists and turns the results into a mix of spoken word musings and indelible pop bangers.
The Stormzy and Adele collaborator was in Louisiana to ask Woodfox a big one: “What’s The Cost Of Freedom?” Smith says he emerged from the pair’s two-hour discussion with a new outlook on life.
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