Black History Month-Blues & Soul
Episode #22-08 | airing 02-23-22
On the program we will listen this week to music in honor of Black History Month. In 1926 Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, educator and publisher, introduced Black History Week. He chose February because it’s the birth month of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; the celebration became a month-long event in 1976. We’ll listen to music from Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons, Irma Thomas, Buffalo Nichols, Odetta and many others. We’ll concentrate on the rich textures of African American popular music … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
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Artist/”Song”/CD/Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
Folkways
T-Bone Walker / “Two Bones and a Pick” / T-Bone Blues / Atlantic
Irma Thomas / “In the Middle of It All” / After the Rain / Rounder
Buffalo Nichols / “These Things” / Buffalo Nichols / Fat Possum
Our Native Daughters / “Black Myself” / Songs of Our Native Daughters / Smithsonian Folkways
Arthur Alexander / “Go Home Girl” / Lonely Just Like Me / Elektra Nonesuch American Explorer
Diunna Greenleaf / “Running Like the Red Cross” / I Ain’t Playin’ / Little Village
Sam Cooke / “Twistin’ The Night Away” / One Night Stand Sam Cooke Live at The Harlem Square Club /
RCA-Legacy
Otis Redding / “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)” / Live in London and Paris / Stax-Volt
T-Bone Walker / “Shufflin’ the Blues” / T-Bone Blues / Atlantic
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi / “I Shall Not be Moved” / They’re Calling Me Home / Nonesuch
The McIntosh County Shouters / “Jubilee” / Spirituals & Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast /
Smithsonian Folkways
Mr. Martin Simpson & Mr. Dom Flemons / “My Money Never Runs Out” / Proudly Present a Selection of Ever
Popular Favorites / Fledg’ling
Odetta / “Unemployment Blues” / Blues Everywhere I Go / MC Records
Johnnie Johnson / “Movin’ Out” / Johnnie B. Bad / Elektra Nonesuch American Explorer
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
Folkways