Folk Alley Radio Show #240222
This week on Folk Alley, as Black History Month winds down and we look ahead to Women’s History Month in March, we celebrate the contributions of amazing Black women of folk, roots, and Americana – both historical and contemporary. Hear music from Bessie Jones, Odetta, Etta Baker, Joan Armatrading, Tracy Chapman, Allison Russell, Sunny War, Yasmin Williams, Valerie June, Miko Marks, and more.
In hour two, hear from two pop stars who have waded into the world of folk and country music; new music from JigJam, The High Hawks, John Leventhal, Billy Keane, and Drew & Ellie Holcomb; plus an excerpt from the most recent episode of the Basic Folk podcast featuring Dinty Child of the Boston-based collective, Session Americana; and much more.
Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
Odetta – Got My Mind On Freedom – It’s A Mighty World – RCA/Victor
Etta Baker – Police Dog Blues – One Dime Blues – Rounder
Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers – Before This Time Another Year (live) – Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961-1965 – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Bessie Smith – Weeping Willow Blues – The Essential Bessie Smith – Sony
Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog – Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings – Universal Music
Joan Armatrading – Down To Zero – LIVE All The Way From America – SigmusicUS
Sweet Honey in the Rock – Ella’s Song – Breaths – Flying Fish
Tracy Chapman – Fast Car – Tracy Chapman – Elektra
Joy Oladokun – Purple Haze – [single] – Amigo Records/Verve Forecast/Republic Records
Valerie June – With You – The Order Of Time – Concord Records
Allison Russell – The Returner – The Returner – Fantasty Records
Yasmin Williams – Swift Breeze – Urban Driftwood – Spinster Sounds
Sunny War – Losing Hand – Simple Syrup – Hen House
Kaia Kater – When Sorrows Encompass Me Round – Sorrow Bound – Kingswood Records
Miko Marks & the Resurrectors – Long Journey Home – [single] – Redtone Records
Hour Two
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em – Renaissance Act II – Columbia/Sony
Taylor Swift – Exile (feat. Bon Iver) – Folklore – Republic
JigJam – John D. McGurks – Across The Pond – JigJam Records
John Doyle – North Sea Holes – Evening Comes Early – Shanachie
Karan Casey – I Thank My Lucky Stars – Nine Apples of Gold – Vertical Records
Dinty Child – Basic Folk Interview clip: Cindy Howes and Dinty Child – Basic Folk interview clip
Dinty Child – Witness – Letting the Lions In – Dinty Child
Rose Cousins – Tired Eyes – Stray Birds (EP)
Billy Keane – Returning to the Garden (feat. The Mammals) – [single] – Upper Floor
The Mammals – Unpopular Ideas – [single] – Humble Abode Music
The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show – LoHi Records
John Leventhal – JL’s Hymn #2 – Rumble Strip – Rumblestrip Records/Thirty Tigers
Rosanne Cash – The Sunken Lands – The River & The Thread – Blue Note Records
Drew & Ellie Holcomb – Bones – Brick by Brick – Magnolia Music
Caamp – Apple Tree Blues – Lavender Days – Mom + Pop
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