Eric Bibb is back. The US blues musician and singer-songwriter is releasing his new album "Dear America" in 2021, the follow-up to his 2018 double album "Global Griot." The name suggests it: It's a musical love letter to his fractured homeland. Bibb has known many different Americas, the good, the bad and the ugly. Born in New York City on August 16, 1951, he experienced firsthand the boom surrounding the Sixties folk revival. That era is so vivid in the 69-year-old's memory that he can still recall the idealism in the Greenwich Village night air and see Bob Dylan standing in his living room. But equally vivid are the dark social flashpoints of last year, when protesters highlighted the open wound of U.S. race relations as a bitter presidential election fissured the country.