This week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we conclude our two part feature Pioneering Women in Folk Music. We’ll hear a set of Classic Blues featuring Memphis Minnie and Big Mama Thornton and more contemporary players Rory Block and Maria Muldaur. We’ll travel to the U.K. with Anne Briggs and Sandy Denny and classic songs from Rosalie Sorrels and Malvina Reynolds.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Mary Z. Cox / “Sally Ann” / Blue Sky Banjo / Self Produced
Memphis Minnie / “When the Sun Goes Down, Pt.2” / Four Women Blues / RCA
Bessie Smith / “Mama’s Got the Blues” / The Complete Recordings, Vol.1 / Columbia
Sister Rosetta Tharpe / “Down By the Riverside” / Sing, Sister Sing / Fuel
Big Mama Thornton / “Ball ‘N Chain” / Ball ‘n Chain / Arhoolie

Maria Muldaur / “I’m Goin’ Back Home” / Richland Woman Blues / Stoney Plain
Rory Block / “County Farm Blues” / Last Fair Deal / Telarc
Tracy Nelson / “Mother Earth” / Living with the Animals / Mercury
Mary Z. Cox / “Fisher’s Hornpipe-Chinkapin Hunting” / Blue Sky Banjo / Self Produced

The Silly Sisters (June Tabor & Maddy Prior) / “Fine Horsemen” / No More to the Dance / Topic
Anne Briggs / “Reynardine” / A Collection / Topic
Fotheringay (Sandy Denny) / “Nothing More” / Fotheringay / Fledg’ling

Rosalie Sorrels / “Goodnight Loving Trail” / Strangers in Another Country / Red House
Malvina Reynolds / “It Isn’t Hard” / Ear To The Ground / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways