This week on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine we’ll hear a bit about the establishment on Black History Month and listen to some archival music. We’ll hear tunes from Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and WC Handy and songs from Jim Jackson, Bessie Smith, Henry Thomas and others.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Jelly Roll Morton / “King Porter Stomp” / The Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax / Rounder
James Baker, Will Crosby, R. D. Allen, Mose Platt / “Go Down Old Hannah” / Negro Work Songs and Calls / Rounder
Jesse Bradley and Group Huntsville State Penitentiary Texas / “Hammer, Ring” / Negro Work Songs and Calls / Rounder
Mississippi Mudsteppers / “Jackson Stomp” / Before the Blues Vol 1 / Yazoo
Tennessee Chocolate Drops / “Knox County Stomp” / Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow! / Old Hat

Louis Armstrong / “West End Blues” / The Complete Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings Vol. 3 / Sony
WC Handy / “St Louis Blues” / WC Handy’s Memphis Blues Band / Memphis Archives
Jim Jackson / “I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop” / Wild About My Lovin’ / RCA
Jelly Roll Morton / “Tiger Rag” / The Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax / Rounder

Bessie Smith / “Down Hearted Blues” / The Complete Recordings Vol. 1 / Columbia
Henry Thomas / “Old Country Stomp” / Texas Worried Blues / Yazoo
Mississippi John Hurt / “Avalon Blues” / 1928 Recordings / Yazoo
Fort Smith Symphony / “Still: Symphony No.1 ‘Afro American’ Animato” / Still: Afro-American Symphony-Africa / Naxos

Washington Phillips / “What Are They Doing in Heaven Today” / Washington Phillips and his Manzarene Dreams / Dust to Digital
The Golden Gate Quartet / “Traveling Shoes” / Freedom / Bridge
Blind Willie Johnson / “Dark was the Night-Cold was the Ground” / Praise God I’m Satisfied / Yazoo
Lead Belly / “Alabama Boumd” / Bourgeois Blues / Smithsonian Folkways
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways