Folk Alley Radio Show #260219

This week on Folk Alley, we continue our Black History Month celebration, highlighting iconic Black folk and blues musicians—alongside the artists they’ve influenced. Hear music from Muddy Waters, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and more.

In hour two, enjoy new music from Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Kronos Quartet, Gipsy Kings, and Jesse Appelman, along with favorites from Peter Ostroushko, Chastity Brown, Amy Helm, and Ana Egge, and a Basic Folk interview excerpt with Naomi Westwater.

Artist-Song-Album-Label

Hour One

Muddy Waters – Put Me In Your Lay Away Plan – Folk Singer – MCA/Chess

Levon Helm – You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had – Electric Dirt – Vanguard

Son House – Death Letter Blues – Martin Scorsese Presents the Best of the Blues – UTV Records

Amythyst Kiah – Grinnin’ in Your Face – Dig – Amythyst Kiah

Corey Harris – Preaching Blues – Fish Ain’t Bitin’ – Alligator

Blind Willie Johnson – God Moves On the Water – Praise God I’m Satisfied – Yazoo

Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi (compilation) – Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson – Alligator Records

Tom Waits (compilation) – The Soul of a Man – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson – Alligator Records

Rosanne Cash – Motherless Children – The List – Manhattan Records

Taj Mahal – You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (live) – The Real Thing – Columbia

Blind Willie McTell – Kill It Kid – Atlanta Twelve String – Atlantic

Dave Alvin – Delia – Public Domain – Hightone

Precious Bryant – Broke and Ain’t Got A Dime – Fool Me Good – Terminus

Mississippi Fred McDowell – You Gotta Move – The Very Best Of Mississippi Fred McDowell – Shout Factory

Bonnie Raitt – The Kokomo Medley – Philadelphia Folk Festival – Sliced Bread

Hour Two

Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis – [single] – Sony

Peter Ostroushko – Heart of the Heartland – Heart of the Heartland – Red House

Chastity Brown – Mad Love – [single] – Red House Records

Billy Bragg – City of Heroes – [single] – Billy Bragg/Cooking Vinyl

Billy Bragg & Wilco – All You Fascists – Mermaid Avenue II – Nonesuch

Basic Folk Interview excerpt with Naomi Westwater – Basic Folk interview excerpt – Basic Folk

Naomi Westwater – Bulbs – Cycle & Change – WSTWTR

Kronos Quartet – Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child (feat. Mahalia Jackson) – Glorious Mahalia – Smithsonian Folkways

Kronos Quartet – Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger – Smithsonian Folkways

Gipsy Kings – Senorita – Historia – Cooking Vinyl

Jesse Appelman – Lyell Fork – Where We Go – Jesse Appelman

Amy Helm – The Stones I Throw – This Too Shall Light – Yep Roc

Rising Appalachia (feat. Ani DiFranco) – Speak Out – _Leylines – Rising Appalachia

Ana Egge – Rise Above – Is It the Kiss – StorySound Records

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