Folk Alley Radio Show #260226
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, and Miko Marks.
In hour two, hear new music from Steep Canyon Rangers, Della Mae, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Orange Oak, Hayes Carll w/ Ashley McBryde, Courtney Marie Andrews, and John Craigie, along with classics by The Band and Townes Van Zandt, a Basic Folk interview excerpt with Laurie Lewis, and more.
Artist-Song-Album-Label
Hour One
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
Etta Baker – Police Dog Blues – One Dime Blues – Rounder
Odetta – Got My Mind On Freedom – It’s A Mighty World – RCA/Victor
Bessie Smith – Weeping Willow Blues – The Essential Bessie Smith – Sony
Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog – Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings – Universal Music Group
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 – Born to Fight – Crossroads – Elektra
Joy Oladokun – jordan – in defense of my own happiness – Verve Forecast/Republic Records
Valerie June – With You – The Order Of Time – Concord Records
Chastity Brown – Mad Love – [single] – Red House Records
Yasmin Williams – Swift Breeze – Urban Driftwood – Spinster Sounds
Miko Marks & the Resurrectors – Long Journey Home – [single] – Redtone Record
Our Native Daughters – Polly Ann’s Hammer – Songs of Our Native Daughters – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Resistance Revival Chorus – All You Fascists Bound To Lose (feat. Rhiannon Giddens) – This Joy – Righteous Babe Records
Hour Two
Steep Canyon Rangers – Heart’s the Only Compass (feat. Steve Martin) – Next Act – Yep Roc
Sierra Hull – E Tune (feat. Bela Fleck) – Tip Toe High Wire – Sierra Hull
Della Mae – My Own Highway – Magic Accident – Compass Records
Tedeschi Trucks Band – I Got You – Future Soul – Concord
The Band – Rag Mama Rag – The Band – Capitol
Laurie Lewis – Basic Folk Interview excerpt with Laurie Lewis – Basic Folk interview excerpt – Basic Folk
Laurie Lewis – Fair and Tender Ladies – O California! – Spruce and Maple Music
Orange Oak – garden green eyes – [single] – Nettwerk
The Tallest Man On Earth – The Drying of Lawns – The Wild Hunt – Dead Oceans
Hayes Carll – If We Don’t Try (feat. Ashley McBryde) – We’re Only Human (Deluxe Edition) – Hwy 87 Records
Townes Van Zandt – Don’t Let the Sunshine Fool Ya’ – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt – Capitol
Courtney Marie Andrews – Cons and Clowns – Valentine – Loose Future
John Craigie – Dry Land – I Swam Here – Zabriskie Point Records
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